Sharp, but too bulky and heavy

Pan50 wrote:

lasd wrote:

Great optics throughout the entire zoom range. I gave it up since it is too large and heavy. I switched from Canon FF to Fuji X to reduce weight and this lens goes against that ethos.

Would be an excellent choice for those that prefer not to carry around a set of primes, but I personally am going for a more low-key look and this lens screams PHOTOG.

To each their own. I don’t walk around town with the 16-55 mounted on my camera, it isn’t a street lens by any means. It needs a tripod. Excellent landscape lens.

Oh man - don your flame retardant undies.     You will hear all sorts of responses. But most will respond with out reading your "isn't a street lens" which means the ability to shoot in low light rapidly with a fast lens.  It is a fine lens for a zoom and zooms are slow.  This lens is two stops slower than the 35 f1.4 23 f1.4 and 56 f1.2.  It is stop slower than the the 50 f2.  It is also the size of an elephant's leg and weights about as much so street - not really particularly in marginal light or indoors.

But on the other hand I've never seen any street photographer use a tripod.  On the other hand for landscape a dawn or dusk - a tripod would be recommended I suspect.

It is one of Fuji's top general purpose zoom lenses, the 50-140 being the second.  It is a normal range zoom which I personally find about the most ridiculous concept I can think of and have no use for but other people just love the concept so much that Fuji has not one but two options.

So while I agree with you - a lot of others won't.  As far as landscape - the only true good land scape lens is a tilt-shift lens and Fuji doesn't make one of those.  So for a fixed lens axis this zoom it is as good as any Fuji.