The Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR is my favorite lens for Fujifilm cameras. The problem is that it’s also my wife’s favorite lens, and between the two of us we only have one copy. When she’s using it, I typically go with the Fujinon 35mm f/2 instead, which is a really good lens, too, but I like the 27mm just a bit better. The other problem is that the 35mm lens, while small, is bigger than my 27mm pancake, and it doesn’t fit into my travel camera bag (I have it set up where my Fujifilm X100V and Fujifilm X-E4 with the 27mm fit really nicely into a little camera bag—the 35mm lens is just a tad too big). When TTArtisan recently announced their inexpensive 27mm f/2.8 autofocus pancake lens, I thought maybe this could be a good solution to my problem. It focuses and handles about as well as the Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR, however its simpler optics lead to lesser lab performance. Ignore the the vertical smear at large apertures, this is is a sensor artifact called interline transfer smear and not a lens defect. elements in 5 groups, a common double-Gauss variant extremely popular for normal lenses since about 1950. Indeed, one of the essential reasons to acquire this lens, beyond the focal length, which can be interesting (we will see it later), is its small size and weight. Mounted on any camera in the Fujifilm range, it allows you to have a lens right in the so-called “standard” focal range with unequalled portability.

The X-S10's in-camera stabilization makes it pretty easy getting perfectly sharp results like these hand-held at a ¼ of a second. Even under the most devious conditions I could devise, all I got was one dim purple blob as seen here.While I can praise the XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR for its compactness and lightweight I prefer a lens with a slightly larger size as I find you get a better and steadier grip on the camera/lens combination. This 27/2.8 is a superb lens and I highly suggest you get one to throw in your bag with your Fuji X-mount camera.

is also a pancake lens, but at 18mm it’s much more of a wide angle lens than the 27mm. On the upside, So you have to be particularly creative to make this FOV exciting and striking. It is much easier to take compelling images with a wide-angle or a telephoto lens because it changes the perception of reality compared to what our eye allows us to see. Thanks to the IF mechanism the front of the lens does not rotate on focus, which is very good news for anyone looking to use the lens in conjunction with a polariser or graduated neutral density filter. I am not comparing the optical formula. The optical design is not relevant in this case. It is how they present it. They are stealing an industrial design again, again and again and use it for their marketing. They jump on the marketing train of other companies.

Specifications

As I was getting ready to write this article, I was looking around my gear cabinet for this lens and I couldn’t locate it. When I did find it, the lens was attached to my wife’s X-T4! It turns out that the Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR is her favorite lens. It seems that whenever I want to use it, the lens is attached to her camera. This is the only lens that we fight over. send when using this lens over the last couple of years. The size makes you look less like a “DSLR tourist” This is the first suggestion I’ve seen that this lens is anything but an in-house Fujifilm design, made in Fujifilm’s lens factory in the Philippines. If this is not the case, I’d be interested to know what is.

Ignore the crazy rainbow dots at small apertures; these are sensor artifacts caused by taking a picture directly of the sun and exposing for the dark underside of a huge palm tree, and using that same palm tree to hide the sky to accentuate the stars. These are just snapshots; my real work is in my Gallery. These are all shot hand-held as NORMAL JPGs; no tripods, FINE JPGs or RAW files were used or needed.the 18mm features a physical aperture ring which is great. But on the downside, like the 27mm it’s not If this 1,200×900 pixel crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your phone, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 11 × 16" (0.9 × 1.3 feet or 25 × 40 cm). When Cosina copied others it was more difficult to copy others. Computers were not readily available and much of the drawings were made on paper. Also the markets were smaller.

While this lens has no Optical Image Stabilization, some cameras like the X-S10 have built-in sensor-shift Image Stabilization (IS, VR (Vibration Reduction) or Steady Shot), which works really well with this lens. What little barrel distortion there is can be corrected for more critical use by plugging these figures into Photoshop'sWhile I didn’t notice any vignetting in my images, scrolling between identical images of a wall shot at each aperture, I spotted slight changes to the corner brightness. The corner shading is gone by f/5.6, but it’s barely noticeable at f/2.8. Additionally, a tiny metal dome-shaped lens hood (LH-XF27) is also included in the box which screws into the 39mm filter threads on the front of the lens. Bokeh is a word used for the out-of-focus areas of a photograph, and is usually described in qualitative terms, such as smooth / creamy / harsh etc.