FujifilmXF16 mm F1.4 R Weather Resistant Lens

Before I give my opinion on this fine lens, it might help others if I explain a bit about how I ended up coming to the conclusion that this is perhaps (it's early days) the best lens I've ever used.I've been a Canon shooter for years, initially as a hobby documenting my family growing up and eventually turning into a career. I shoot weddings and recently commercial/PR events. My main camera has been a 5D Mark III for the last couple of years, and I own most of Canon's finest lenses. I prefer primes, and I own the usual focal lengths (35mm, 50mm and 85mm L versions), but I also have the 16-35L ii, 24-70L ii and 70-200L ii. I have a pretty sweet collection of Canon's finest lenses.A while ago I began to realise that, perhaps due to my seeing the Canon and bag-full of lenses as "work things" and partly because my back was getting knackered from years of carrying them around, I wasn't bringing my camera with me on family outings as much. The whole reason I got into photography was to document my family life, so I needed to do something about it.At around that time Fuji had released the X100, so I bought one and fell in love with it in some (many) ways, but ultimately it was just a bit too slow to cope with taking photos of my hyperactive offspring. I sold it and resigned myself to a life of carting a DSLR around on family outings in between trips to the chiropractor.Skip forward a year or two and I borrowed a friend's X-T1 and the XF 35mm 1.4. I immediately loved the camera. The lens didn't immediately grab me as much, perhaps because I was used to how a 50mm f/1.4 looked (the equivalent on the 5D I was used to) looked, but I knew there and then that I loved the Fuji mirrorless system, so I bought one along with the 23mm f/1.4 and the 56mm f/1.2.I used the X-T1 with those two lenses initially as my "fun" camera setup, with my wheely case full of full frame Canon gear being my workhorse equipment. Until one day I brought the Fuji and those two spectacular lenses along to a wedding gig. I pretty much used them all day long, until the evening dancefloor action when I needed flash. Since then I've found myself using that same Fuji setup for the majority of the day on a handful of weddings, with my bag of Canon gear sitting there looking rather sorry for itself.I'd pretty much made the decision to move over to using a Fuji system as my main set of equipment, but the rumours of the X-T2 coming out soon sealed the deal. I'm on board. If anyone shooting weddings is in any doubt as to whether they would be taking a step back from using a 5D Mark III (standard equipment for most Canon wedding photographers), just search Google for "Fuji X Wedding". There are some people out there doing incredible work with these little cameras.Anyway, that was quite a longwinded, totally off topic ramble.I've always been a prime shooter, but the widest I'd ever used was the 35mm on the full frame Canon system, always using the 24-70 2.8 or 16-35 2.8 for wider shots. I never got on with them as I tend to work with available light, but I could never justify buying a the Canon 24mm 1.4 as it was so crazy expensive, and the 24-70 ii was soooooooo sharp. However, with a widest aperture of 2.8 it often wasn't fast enough to deliver the goods when I wanted those wide shots in low light (bridal prep, first dance when not using off camera flash etc).I decided to give the Fuji XF 16mm 1.4 a go. It arrived yesterday. Already I'm pretty much decided that this, alongside the X-T1, is my favourite camera/lens combination for the way I shoot. It is as sharp as any Canon L lens I've used, perhaps shaper than anything other than the 24-70 L ii, and the way it renders out of focus areas is simply sublime. I didn't expect there to be a huge difference between a crop sensor 16mm 1.4 lens and a full frame 24mm f/2.8, but there most definitely is, at least with this lens. You get that "prime pop", but with a wide field of view. Somehow it seems to blur out the background better than it should do.I don't know how they've done it, but Fuji have created what I consider to be one of the finest prime lenses out there. For "documentary wedding photography", whatever that is, it is perfect. Likewise as a family-man's lens, it's perfect.I love every Fuji lens I own, but after just two days of shooting I know this is my favourite. I absolutely adore it.As soon as the X-T2 is released I'll be buying two of them and selling all of my Canon gear, using the 16mm, 23mm, 35mm and 56mm for my work and personal photography. All of that can fit into a standard sized rucksack. Plus I'll be saving about £60 a month on chiropractor bills. Winning.Fuji - I salute you.

I'm not an expert photographer so can't add that much to previous reviews. This lens is on my camera - Fuji XT2 - 95% of the time. It is amazing. The bokeh is fabulous. The F1.4 is so incredibly useful for indoor for all manner of things such as dark churches, buildings, night time etc. Don't think that 16mm is too wide either, it is a very useful FL. Does not have OIS but seriously, do you need that at 16mm???!!! I don't think so.... that's more for telephoto so please don't let that put you off.The tiniest of vignetting at F1.4 - see my beach photo above - but that is splitting hairs and easily processed out. All photos in my review are unprocessed jpegs from the RAW originals.You must be interested in this lens otherwise you wouldn't be reading these reviews. My advice to you, if you can afford the slightly heavy price tag, is to buy it! It is an amazing it now, you're going to anyway so why not now??? :)

Beautifully built, this lens is almost flawless (if that exists). The focal length is very useful and the wide aperture makes it even more useful. The image quality is top notch as I expected, since all reviews highly recommended this lens.The focus is quick and nearly silent.This lens is glued to my camera (Fuji X-T2).The only downside I can see is that the lens is a bit big and heavy for the mirrorless standards but it balances nicely with the X-T2. No miracles can be done, this is a 16mm (24mm equivalent) f/1.4 lens. If you try to find the Full Frame lenses equivalent to this one you will get much bigger and heavier lenses. I can sincerely say that I'm used to the size and weight and don't find that to be problematic.Highly recommended!

A premium to professional quality lens. Not the best for perfectly uniform bokeh, but good weather resistance. Ideal for landscapes, and architecture. Portraits with this less should be left to professionals.

This is one of my favourite lenses for the Fujifilm X system.It is a very versatile lens with a surprising minimum focus distance. It is very sharp, renders beautifully with excellent resolution and has accurate autofocus performance.The build quality of this lens is superb. The clicked aperture ring is smooth and offers just the right amount of resistance. The manual focus clutch is also reassuringly smooth and accurate.The only criticism this lens may attract is that the autofocus, while quiet, will be picked up by the internal or a camera attached shotgun microphone. If you don’t do video however, there is nothing to fault with this lens. 5/5

Using this on a Fuji xt-3, it is a delight!Very fast auto-focus for video it is brilliant, wide enough to get everything in, even up close but has very little lens distortion for a 16mm..if you were getting an XT3 for the first time and wanted an awesome prime, the 16mm would be the first i'd advise.. (followed by the 56 1.2 and then the 80mm macro.

I am using this lens with the FUJI XT2 and oh my what a great lens on an equally amazing body. I wanted a lens which was capable of shooting relatively wide and this 16mm was a good compromise and equally for short focus throw it's great too being able to focus as close distance sold it for me. I've also invested in the additional metal hood for this lens which finishes off the kit nicely.

this seems a great lens to me but not had the chance to fully test it out yet.I Tried to check for up dates with it on my Fujifilm XT-2 camera body but i got a yellow coded message saying update cancelled switch off camera..SO i need to sort that out before i do any further tests.