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opinions on the 18-120?

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Barbarus
Barbarus Regular Member • Posts: 377
Re: opinions on the 18-120?
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Dunno - All I've seen are marketing videos and 50 or so images on Flickr... I decided to take a chance and ordered it to pair with my X-H2 and we'll see, I guess

Super zooms are rarely all that super, and it seems the parfocality and focus breathing aren't the product of uncompromising optical engineering so much as slightly glitchy software engineering but that kind of range for that low a weight make it pretty tempting as a walk around lens for some kinds of trips and as a video lens that'll balance light and easy on a gimbal... Fingers crossed! In the worst case scenario, someone will be getting an open box special from Amazon Prime a month from now!

Forum member Ken Ross posted a nice example of this lens at a park: X-H2 at Caleb Smith State Park with the 18-120 PZ lens: Fujifilm X System / SLR Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

and this guy did a reasonably deep review:

And Christopher Frost did some IQ analysis.  His methodology didn't show whether the corner softness he observed at the wide and tele ends were optically soft or just some field curvature though.

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