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XF16-80mm vs. XF18-135mm for travel/landscape/architecture photography

Started Mar 3, 2022 | Discussions thread
Oregon Dawg
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Re: XF16-80mm vs. XF18-135mm for travel/landscape/architecture photography
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I would choose the 16-80 because 16-17mm is more useful to me than 81-135mm.

what another person wrote about the 16-80 jives with reviews I’ve read, that stop down to f5.6 and the edges sharpen up.  At f8-16 you would be fine for landscape.  Somewhat softer edges at 80mm which is typical for a zoom of this type (5x) but the center is sharp so subject isolation and portraits are in play at 80.

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