Fujifilm Fujinon XF50-140mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR

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I agonized over 56mm 1.2 Vs. 90mm 2 Vs. 50-140 2.8. I have all three of them right now but only plan on keeping two of them. I think Im going to keep 50-140 and 56.1.2. The 50-140 is incredibly versatile. Its every bit as good as Canon 70-200 2.8 ii and Canon 70-200 F4 IS, both of which I previously owned. The Canon 70-200 2.8 is still better in terms of bokeh and higher magnification factor. The drawback is its 500g extra weight. And when you add another 500g of weight from a full frame body, thats a total of 1kg extra. Not fun to carry for a long period of time at all. I sold both canon lenses since I got the fuji 50-140. Optical image stabilization is highly effective. Autofocus is fast and accurate. Image quality is very high. I cant find obvious flaws. Unfortunately this lens has low magnification factor. So lets say I want to get a closeup shot of a flower this lens cant do that. Bokeh is decent but not spectacular. Thats why I have 56 1.2. Small enough to bring along just in case. When I first got the lens I was surprised to hear rattling noise when I gently shake the lens. It turns out that this is perfectly normal and was by design. My Canon lenses make no noise at all so I didnt like what I heard at first. But after a while I got used to hearing it. The noise goes away when you turn on the camera, and comes back when you turn off. Other than this, build quality is very high. It makes me want to hold it. My Canon 70-200 2.8 makes me want to put it down. There was a period of time when I had both Canon 70-200 f4 and fuji 50-140. The choice was not as obvious as 70-200 2.8 vs. 50-140. Both 70-200 f4 and the fuji counterpart offer excellent image quality. If I mount the Canon 70-200 f4 on a Canon 6D series, the combo weighs about the same as xt2 + 50-140 combo. I feel that the bokeh is better on the canon and its about 200g lighter. In the end I chose the fuji because i really love my xt2. And even though 50-140 is larger and a bit heavier its one full stop faster, making it potentially a great event lens. Besides the OIS is much quieter and appears to be more effective. Mostly importantly I already sold all my canon full frame. And the only way to use the canon is to mount it on my M5. By the time I add an adapter, the size difference disappears. In summary, Im very glad I got this fujinon 50-140 as a bring-everywhere lens. It is by no means small but very manageable. Its weather resistant. It allows to me to use lower ISO thanks to its extremely effective OIS. If you like traditional DSLR like the canon 5d series and you dont mind the weight, then I think a 5Div and 70-200 f2.8 combo is still superior because of better bokeh and higher magnification. But I do mind. Im getting old. I just want something lighter and more manageable.

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This lens is incredibly sharp!!! For those who own other Fujifilm lenses, I am sure you are aware of how sharp they pretty much all are. I have not been dissatisfied with any of the lenses that I have purchased but I really think that this is the sharpest lens I have every owned, especially considering it is a zoon. There is no easy way to compare it to other lenses by other manufacturers, like the 70-200mm Nikon lens which I also have since you really need to compare across cameras also, but in my attempts to do so, this lens really shines! It is incredibly sharp all the way to the corners, even when wide open. This lens in also very smooth when either zooming or focusing and is extremely well made. The weatherproofing aspect is also very nice when using for shooting many different landscape situations. In addition, the image stabilization really does give you at least a four stop advantage if not five. It is incredible! This is also very nice in so many different low light situations where setting up with a tripod is just not a reasonable option. I really feel that this lens and Fujis 10-24mm are the best I have ever owned!

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This lens performs amazingly well and handles serious abuse. I recently did a shoot on the Oregon coast during a crazy windstorm with sand flying everywhere. Paired with my X-T1, this lens did everything I wanted it to and came out unscathed. The coating on the front element did an incredible job of beading moisture and all the weather sealing did its job well. After a half hour with a small brush, the lens looked brand new with no sand in any of the mechanisms or rings. Also, this lens is SHARP! Ive been more than impressed with the quality of shots I get. The OIS is truly incredible. Im able to get sharp images at 1/15 second and 140mm without trying to be stable, and probably 80% of my shots at 1/8 are sharp when I steady myself well. This opens up tons of opportunities for shots in light that is less than ideal, so long as the subject is stationary. If youve been missing your 70-200mm f/2.8 after switching to the Fuji system, this will fulfill all your desires and more! Significantly lighter, less expensive, and shorter than Canon and Nikon offerings, but no loss in performance. Well worth the investment.

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This lens, as many have already noted is excellent. I stumbled across fuji about a year ago, when i got the xt10 for a trip. It came with the 18-55 zoom. I have a FF setup, pentax k1 with a number of primes and zooms including the Tamron 70-200 2.8. I was so impressed with the fuji i could not sell it after my trip. Later got the xt2, then this lens. I also in the meantime got the 35mm F2 and the 27mm 2.8. I wanted a small system for travel, street, casual shooting. So buying this lens was not what i had planned originally as it is huge and heavy. However, my thinking was, if i tried it and it worked well, then i could get rid of my FF setup. To be honest, it is hard to imagine i could go back to a crop system. This lens convinced me i could!! It is a little heavy, but balances well on the xt2. I have shot hundreds of photos with this lens and the xt2 and compared to shots taken with my FF and the Tamron. My conclusion? I dont lose much, if anything at all, from shooting the fuji. In fact this lens is much sharper wide open, focusses more accurately. As i do not have much time doing a lot of PP (except when i shoot a friends wedding for fun), the jpegs from the fuji with this lens is very satisfying. I was thinking of the 56mm for portraits, but with this lens, i dont think Ill be buying that in a hurry. So with this lens, Im ready to ditch my FF. The fuji mirrorless small body with the excellent small primes and the excellent 18-55 is great for casual, street, and travel photography. This lens allows me to do the other more serious things. This lens helped me make up my mind, and my FF setup will be going soon!! It is that good.

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Big and bulky on my X-PRO2 let alone on my X-E2. Also expensive. Ive always had mixed feelings about zooms - feel more comfortable with fixed focal length. So why five stars? Not so big and bulky if you compare it to 70-200mm on a full frame camera. About 1/2 the price of the latest 70-200 f/2.8s. I can make photos with it that would be hard to pull off with any other Fuji lens. To begin with there is the OIS - I have never been really steady with heavy hand held lenses but you wouldnt know that from seeing the results using this. None of Fujis fixed focal length lenses in the 50-140mm range have OIS. Ive used OIS (or VR) lenses before but here I find myself getting hand held results that just dont seem possible. If you have already read formal reviews about the 50-140mm you are already aware that optical quality is rated very highly. I wont dispute that and also note that if you use this with Fujis matched 1.4x teleconverter there is no discernable image degradation. My most common uses are : -to isolate subject matter from surroundings. Getting closer with a shorter lens might work but that tends to affect perspective. Having some distance keeps the image "flat". For me this applies more to nature/botanical subjects, but it has implications for portraits as well. The wide aperture makes for isolation by narrow depth-of-field and nice "bokeh". -certain landscapes where I want to flatten perspective such a row of trees or a mountainside with patches of autumn color amidst the conifers. -sports events like rodeos and horse races. With the x-PRO2 and the right camera settings continuous shooting with AF tracking works well. Im sure it works even better on an X-T2. - carry a macro extension tube (Fujis MCEX-11 is a good one). Slip it in place between the body and the lens and you get really good close-up (not true macro) capability. Another plus: having this lens has helped me restrain my desire for Fujis 56mm and 90mm. Suggestion to Fuji: There is a reason Nikon (Canon, too?) aldo offer a 70-200 f/4! Think about in future planning Update: As kludgy as it sounds you can use the 1.4 teleconverter and the macro tube at the same time. Tube attaches to the camera body and televonverter goes between lens and tube. Still not a macro lens but gets you a closer closeup. Good results hand held but be sure OIS is switched on

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This lens. I dont even know what to say. It is 110% amazingly gorgeous! It reminds me of the look that I used to get out of the Canon 70-200 f/2.8. But, paired with the Fuji sensor, it actually looks better. Bokeh is buttery smooth. Portraits are gorgeous and it even shoots sports really really well!

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As good as the best reviews say it is. At 2.8 its as sharp if not sharper than my XF56 1.2. I was a little concerned about the OIS noise as some say its very annoying; I did not find this at all on my XT1 or XT2. Perhaps firmware updates have made this much less an issue. Another concern was the size; again, not an issue, its a fast zoom lens with OIS, not sure how it could be smaller and as good as it is. Ive used it to shoot some portraits and sporting events, and with the XT2, extremely satisfied.

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An excellent lens... beautiful craftsmanship. Clear, sharp, perfect in almost every way. Heavy, but other than that, perfection.

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Sold my Nikkor 70-200 VRII for this. Lost $1300 on the sale. This is not as good as the Nikon lens was. But Im stuck with Fuji now, so I have to make the best of it. Fortunately I do very little sports or other action stuff where a zoom is necessary. This lens is probably worth $900 or so. Fuji overprices their optics so they can put them on sale at their true value. This lens is a good example of that. Certainly not as good as the 90mm f/2, but then again it is a zoom. Tried using it with the Fuji 2X converter and the results were very poor, very mushy. Not at all recommended. The XH1 stabilizes with its "IBIS" so I cant comment on how good the IS is on the zoom by itself. Frankly, IS is quite a gimmick because it does nothing to stop the subject motion. And if you are using a zoom, it is probably because you are shooting action. So whats the point of having it? Further, if you shoot landscapes, you ought to be shooting on a tripod, and you turn off IS for that. The whole IS and IBIS is really a way to sell more lenses at a higher price with a marginal benefit. Most of life is moving.

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This lens added to my stable that included the kit 18-55, the 27, the 35/f.14, the 56 f/1.2, and the 60. I was looking for something to reach out a little bit further, but was still really useful at the lower end. The first impression this lens makes is that it is substantial in every sense of the word. It is obviously the largest and heaviest lens that I own. That comes with the positive trade off that it is built like an absolute tank. Paired with my X-T2 with the battery grip and the balance is pretty good. I dont know how well it would fair on an X-Pro. On my X-E2 it was pretty unwieldy. Prior to switching to Fuji, I shot Canon and the 70-200 mm f/2.8 was one of my favorite lenses. Like this lens, it was on the bigger side so I used the BARSKA Accu Grip Handheld Tripod System to improve handling. That product works just as well for this lens. After doing some test shots, two things impressed me. First the AF focus speed is surprisingly snappy with all that glass. Two, the OIS is really very good. One of my first test shots was at 1/4 handheld and there was no visible shake. The IQ, as with every Fuji lens I have owned, is great. I would certainly put it ahead of the Canon 70-200mm f/2.8. My only complaint is that, as others have stated, the focus ring is a little stiff. I am hoping that this loosens up a bit with use. I would term it more as an annoyance than as a serious issue. Initially, the price tag scared me off this lens as well as my tendency to gravitate toward primes. Once you start shooting with the lens, you will likely quickly forget all of that. It makes me reconsider not adding the 16-55 to my inventory to just have the flexibility that a zoom gives you.

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