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Dear Fujifilm: it's time to launch the 'Fujinger'

Started 9 months ago | Discussions thread
Rod McD Veteran Member • Posts: 8,589
Re: Dear Fujifilm: it's time to launch the 'Fujinger'
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Hi,

Have you considered that you may not be in the target market for the 150-600mm? It simply isn't aimed at the pro sports market.

There is a solid history of people seeking long fast lenses from Fuji and lamenting that they aren't in the lens range. Sure it would be nice to have, but first and foremost, Fuji is a business, and a smaller brand at that, and even if they produced such lenses, I doubt they'd get the faithful sports pros to leave their longstanding providers. It's more important that they get ROI and stay profitable - and more so in a very tough and shrinking market in a very tough and uncertain few years.

The investment required to buy a long fast lens of any speed is high enough that the camera is an almost irrelevant cost. The lenses you want exist now. Choose the lens you want, sell your car or mortgage your house, and buy it, and then with the small change, buy any decent body to hang on the back of it. Done. It doesn't have to be a Fuji to meet your long lens needs. Don't delay - there are thousands of photos you've missed waiting for Fuji to make a long fast prime they probably aren't going to make any time soon. And keep your Fuji as the enjoyable system it is for the many other forms of photography it is well capable of.....

Nice to dream, but if you really need a long fast lens, you can resolve your problem today.

Cheers, Rod

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