Dpreview has just tested the newly released Fujifilm XF 8-16mm F2.8 R LM WR lens (Amazon/ B&H/ Adorama) and posted a TV review.
Below are what they find:
- professional line of Fujifilm lenses
- well-built, but heavy and expensive
- well suited for Fujifilm X-H1
- manual focus ring feels sloppy
- no OIS, but it’s typical for lenses in this range.
- XF 10-24 is more well suited for lighter bodies and has OIS
- no filter threads, typical for lenses that wide
- powerful autofocus motors. Fast and accurate
- coma is very well corrected, excellent for astrophotography and cityscape
- vignetting and distortion very well corrected
- sunstars are not bad, but not the best they have seen
- close focusing is similar to the XF10-24 (9 feet)
- XF8-16 optically fantastic, very sharp
- 8mm at f/2.8 a little bit weird in the corners, but stopping down cleans up beautifully
- wide open it is sharper than the XF10-24, but stopped down difference gets smaller
- for most people, the XF 10-24mm F4 is a better choice, since landscape you stop down anyway
- XF 8-16mm F2.8 is a niche lens
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Product Highlights
- X-Mount Lens/APS-C Format
- 12-24mm (35mm Equivalent)
- Aperture Range: f/2.8 to f/22
- Three ED and Four Aspherical Elements
- Three Super ED Elements
- Nano-GI Coating
- Field Curvature Correction Element
- Linear Focus Motor
- Rounded 9-Blade Diaphragm
- Weather-Sealed Construction
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