My 2022 toy budget is in. How should I spend it?

Coldpaw wrote:

To be honest and without sounding jealous, you seem to be quite lucky having a budget you "have" to spend on new gear, especially since you seem to be happy with your already pretty complete kit. To play the game however, here are just two suggestions:

thanks for taking your time to make the comments!

1) You seem to be not completely satisfied with the Viltrox, you could either check out the Fujifilm 56 f1.2 or maybe go for a smaller, lighter alternative and have a look at the very good 50mm f2.

Yes.. I will check out the Fuji 56mm, I probably will wait for the 56/1.2 WR before making any decision.

Personally I am still eyeing the excellent 90 f2 which you once sold, however I can't justify spending this kind of money in the near future.

i owned it. It’s a great lens but I found that I don’t use that focal length often enough. I may repurchase it when I find that I have more use case with that FL.

2) You seem to like the X-Pro line a lot, you also stated you enjoy taking just a single lens with you and you enjoy the 35mm equiv. focal length a lot. I might just throw in the X100V here: It essentially is a mini X-Pro3 with an excellent 23mm f2 lens. It is compact,
fairly light, shares a lot of functionality with the X-Pro3 and has a few unique features on it's own, like the leaf shutter or a built-in ND filter for shooting wide open in the sun. It's also much more convenient to carry around than the rather chunky X-Pro3. I too own the XP3 along with a trio of Fujicrons, however I find myself using the X100V more frequently and especially: I often take it with me when I wouldn't bother packing a camera at all.

Yes. I agree. That is what I am thinking about too. My first option includes getting an X100V. That camera is a little wonder. The most eye catching features to me are its full menu control layout like the xpro3,  its compact size and the built in ND. I owned x100s before before but sold it because of the super slow/ laggy AF and the full steps only original aperture ring.