Fujifilm XF50-140mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR

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 don't 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 friend's 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 don't think I'll be buying that in a hurry.So with this lens, I'm 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.

Big and bulky on my X-PRO2 let alone on my X-E2. Also expensive. I've 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/2.8's. 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 wouldn't know that from seeing the results using this. None of Fuji's fixed focal length lenses in the 50-140mm range have OIS. I've used OIS (or VR) lenses before but here I find myself getting hand held results that just don't 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 won't dispute that and also note that if you use this with Fuji's matched 1.4x teleconverter there is no discernable image degradation.TIP: If you leave the tripod mount adapter that comes with it attached, you can use that as handle to hold lens+camera with one hand and the other hand for the camera controls. This mitigates much of the imbalance between the weight and size of the lens ans an X-E series body.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. I'm sure it works even better on an X-T2.- carry a macro extension tube (Fuji's 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 Fuji's 56mm and 90mm.Suggestion to Fuji: There is a reason Nikon (Canon, too?) aldo offer a 70-200 f/4! Think about in future planningUpdate: 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

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 don't 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.