I'm done with lens reviews

imnotmarvin wrote:

If you're buying from a reputable dealer, you can return a lens if it doesn't meet your needs or expectations for the types of photography you do.

Hi,

This alone may underpin a different approach.   There are different rules in different places.  I'm not sure where you are.  In Australia, where I live, you're not buying it to try it.  You're buying it.  You can return it if its faulty, and the manufacturer determines under the warranty whether to  repair it or replace it.  You can't return it just because it didn't meet your needs or expectations and you changed your mind.   If it's not faulty, and you changed your mind and just don't want it, well you sell it as a used lens to someone who does want it.   Under this business framework, getting it right in the first place becomes more important.

So, yup, I get the best information available..... and read reviews.  Same for cars, dishwashers and all the other consumer stuff we spend big on.

TBH, I think the whole 'try it and return it' can and sometimes does lead to all sorts of ill-planned purchasing and unscrupulous using and reselling - as many threads in these forums have shown over the years.  At least here, if it's sold as new, it must be new and unused, and not someone else's reject with an unknown history.

I actually agree with you that most of the Fuji range are good lenses.  OTOH, some are excellent.  The task is to sift out the ones that meet our needs knowing their foibles....

Cheers, Rod