Views On The 10-24mm

Joachim Gerstl wrote:

Hi,

The 14/2.8 is my favourite lens and in short the 10-24 is not that good.

But for landscapes I love the flexibility of the 10-24. It is better on the wide end and if you stop it down at least to f5.6 or better f8 it is a very fine lens.

IIRC the only advantage of the xf 2.8/14 is a gain of 1 EV wide open. But at the expense of a weaker sharpness. IIRC the 10-24 not only has an enormous spectrum of FL, but is even @ 14 mm simply as well as the xf2.8/14…

If you don‘t believe that, just take a look @ opticallimits or the spec @ fujifilm.com

Both are excellent, but indeed the 10-24 offers about the same IQ performance @ 14mm , PLUS the 10-24 delivers a constantly excellent IQ from 10mm to about 20mm. Even wide open, with a max already @ f= 5,6-8  from FL 20-24 it is no more excellent, but acceptable - and an UWA zoom is not something to use @ 20-24 FL….

As I wrote already before, the 8-16 delivers in fact only more in the extremely narrow, exotic niches of photography.

I can understand that people being active in this niches love the 8-16, especially astro-photographers.

But this market segment is soooo small that Fujifilm sold last year the 8-16 for nearly half of its normal price for about 2 months - evidently there are near to zero customers willing to pay the price (money, weight, taking a lot of space in your bag, difficult for filters, .. ).

As for me, landscape photography without circPol filter is just half of the pleasure.And I never do landscape or shots for architecture using lenses full open @ 2.8.

plus nowadays at least landscape photography with enormous panorama (below FL = 10 mm) is easy using stitching techniques for example.

And I confess that the strong (from 8-10mm) beginning fisheye-look of the 8-16 with its typical FL-dependent distortions - when used in rooms and showing people - is not everybodys darling, and not at all what I like.

But it is nice that even for astro-photograohy rhere are more than just one lens for the X-system - so everybody has been served already

cheers.