FujifilmXF16mmF1.4 R WR

Feels like such a versatile lens. I love how close you can get to your subject. If I HAVEto pick one lens it would probably be this one. I currently have this, the 35mm 1.4 and the 50-140 2.8 on the xt-5

I've owned both the 18mm and the 14mm lenses. I liked the 18 "okay" - I was never crazy about it, but in retrospect, I wasn't giving it enough credit. However, I've always liked the 16mm focal length more. I sold the 18 in preference to zooms, as well as to the 14mm - Which, on paper, is a much better lens. And it is an excellent lens - at a focal length I absolutely suck at using. 14mm is just a tad too wide for what I'd want to use it for.... Additionally, I missed the close focus abilities of the 18mm.Enter the 16mm.I've been anticipating this lens since I first heard about it. It has far exceeded my expectations, and has now become my go-to lens. In addition to being a perfect lens for street photography and interiors, it's particularly suited for darker situations. The F 1.4 aperture is indeed shallow, but for these situations, it will not limit you - The angle is wide enough that you have plenty of depth, even wide open.At this point, I either own or have owned every prime in the Fuji catalog. I have become accustomed to spectacular quality all around - from the overall IQ, to the handling, to the finish. As expected, it's crazy sharp. This lens manages to exceed my already high expectations. The manual focus is spot on, autofocus is lightning fast (to be expected, it's a wide angle). The weight is perfectly matched to the X-T1. While I haven't tested the WR capabilities yet, I suspect it will do well.What has truly won me over has been the close focus COMBINED with the wide angle, and large aperture - It has allowed me creative possibilities I have never had before, that I am just now starting to explore. These qualities allow you to create wide angle images that go well beyond just getting more in a frame or distorting angles and true unique works of art. The 18mm focused close- I believe this focuses closer.This is the heaviest one of the three (the 14mm, 16mm, 18mm) - While I believe I'd appreciate the weight savings and size of the 18mm still, I feel that it's not as significant when compared to the 14mm.Really, most of this will come down to personal preference -- I personally find 16mm to be my personal sweet spot. If you do as well, then ORDER THIS NOW. You will not be let down. If you already have the 14mm and it works for you, this may be a bit redundant unless you want/need the close focusing or weather resistance. Same if you already have the 18mm and are perfectly content with it, unless you are reserving that for extra light travel - While it has arguably the lowest IQ of the bunch, all three are really good, and you are splitting pixels at a certain point. Personally, I only see the need for one of them -- and if I had all three now, I'd personally still only use this one. Only you can decide, but if you are interested in this - know that there's nothing else like it in the APS-C world.This may not be the most detailed review you will read -- I've spent more time using my equipment and less obsessing over specs - I suspect that's because I've been so happy with the results, and having so much fun with the fuji system. I can certainly tell you from a purely subjective basis that this is quite possibly the nicest prime I've ever used in 20 years of photography - and will likely be the one living on the camera body the most.

I bought this lens because I found I lacked a decent wide angel lens for indoor group shots - weddings, group events, etc. I used the xf 18-55 lens and a samyang 12mm f2 recently on a shoot. I found the 18mm lacking in sharpness and detail, and just not wide enough on some in door shots. Plus, the OIS doesn't help when photographing kids.The samyang 12mm lacked auto focus and manually focusing at f2, indoors, with bad light, can be challenging. Plus my eyesight is not very good anymore.The 16mm is a gorgeous lens. It is well made, well built, and has that premium look to it. Couple of things I saw that bothered me at first.1. The lens has a distinct focusing noise. Must be from the micro-motor that Fuji put in it.2. The hard stops on the focus ring turns past infinity focus.I got over these 2 things. The focus noise is just noise, nothing hampering the operation at all. The focus ring hard stops not matching with the infinity mark seems to be a trait of all FUJI xf lenses (if they have hard stops) and perhaps of all AF lenses in the modern era. The infinity mark does denote infinity focus, so its fine.The bokeh on this lens is very nice. Shot on f1.4 with a subject close by produces creamy background. Having a wide angle that can produce nice subject isolation is very cool. I was missing that on the 18mm.The focus in good light is pretty fast. Not blazing fast, but decent. Low light auto-focus slows down a bit, like all fuji lenses. If I had to compare, it is comparable to the xf 18-55 lens. Not as fast as the 35mm f2.The image is sharp at f1.4. Sure there is corner softness and vignetting, but I crop in my pictures anyway. Very sharp by f2.8 and f4.But we spend the extra money on the extra f-stops, so we might as well use them. In this lens, it does not disappoint.I'd recommend anyone looking for a nice 24mm f1,.4 equivalent to buy this lens before the lens sale stops on oct 1st. Its well worth the $799.

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!

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.

Bought the 16mm f1.4mm after lots of research and reviews. Been using now for 3 months and in my opinion this is a wonderful lens. Quick sharp focus and great colour. Highly recommend.