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The Fujifilm 23 - the 2.0 or the 1.4?

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Re: The Fujifilm 23 - the 2.0 or the 1.4?

gdanmitchell wrote:

Threaded wrote:

Whatever it was it wasn’t an isolated issue, I had similar AF unreliability with this lens on various occasions also, particularly on my X-Pro3 (as opposed to earlier bodies), and I’ve seen it mentioned by others too.

I’ve used plenty of Fuji lenses (including the 35 f1.4 and the 23 f2) and this was the only one I saw repeatedly “focus” with a green box in the viewfinder, on a stationary object, but then turn out to be slightly out in the final image. Most odd but definitely a bug somewhere.

I've never encountered it or heard of it before. I've used this lens for a long time, largely for small-aperture night photography done handheld.

I assume that you contacted Fujifilm about your defective lens and after they repaired it the problem remained?

It was a used lens, and a difficult problem to demonstrate, and I found enough mention of it online (there’s at least two other mentions in this thread) to suggest it was par for the course with certain copies at least.  Ultimately it went back into the used market again…

 Threaded's gear list:Threaded's gear list
Fujifilm X-Pro3 Fujifilm X-E1 Fujifilm XF 35mm F1.4 R Fujifilm XF 18-55mm F2.8-4 R LM OIS Fujifilm XF 23mm F2 R WR
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