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

Started Mar 3, 2022 | Discussions thread
Oregon Dawg
Oregon Dawg Contributing Member • Posts: 846
Re: XF16-80mm vs. XF18-135mm for travel/landscape/architecture photography
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"Even that review says "from 35mm to 150mm or so it performs much closer to the Fuji zooms". That's where I mostly use this lens...better then having to switch between 2 lenses."

Off topic:  Tamron makes a 35-150mm f/2-2.8 lens for full frame.   It's a big and expensive lens, but I like that they did something outside the box for the focal length range of that lens.

Choosing an all-purpose or walk-around or travel zoom can be a challenge.  It's pretty tough to be prepared for all eventualities, in that case the Tamron 18-300 is a really good option.

For me, I would be choosing between the 16-80 and 18-55.   When I'm shooting longer than these lenses, it would be for a specific purpose, and so I'd have a 70-300 or 50-230 or 55-200 for that.  I would likely opt for the 16-80 for the newer lens, AF, OIS and WR.  But the 18-55 is tempting for size/weight/price.   And both lenses are really good.  All Zooms have their strengths and weaknesses, you just figure them out and work with them.  In return you have a lot of flexibility.

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