Fujifilm has simply introduced a model new pancake lens to go together with its shiny new Fujifilm X-E5. The Fujifilm XF 23mm f/2.8 R WR lens has a brilliant slim profile that completely enhances the corporate’s new pocketable rangefinder. The kicker – if you wish to get your palms on the 23mm f/2.8 lens, you’re going to want to purchase it with an X-E5, with the lens not being bought independently till November.
Vastly well-liked for road and journey photographers, the 23mm focal size is equal to 35mm on a full-frame digital camera once you consider the 1.5x crop issue of the X-Sequence’ APS-C sensor. A 23mm focal size additionally completely matches the mounted lens on the Fujifilm X100VI, though the latter has a most f/2 aperture whereas this new 23mm lens tops out at f/2.8 (with an f/16 minimal aperture).
The lens is exceptionally gentle, at simply 90g, and when mixed with the Fujifilm X-E5, the overall package deal weighs 534g together with the battery and SD card – a negligible 14g heavier than the X100VI.
Regardless of the compact measurement of the lens, it’s nonetheless weather-resistant – though it needs to be famous that the X-E5 shouldn’t be! However you’d get full climate sealing utilizing the 23mm lens on a weather-sealed physique just like the Fujifilm X-T5. The lens may also be one of many few remaining Fujifilm lenses to be produced in each black and silver.
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Regardless of its tremendous slim pancake profile, the 23mm lens nonetheless manages to squeeze in a guide aperture ring, with a lock button to carry the aperture in auto, in addition to a guide focus ring and a grooved ring for gripping the lens whereas attaching and detaching it from the digital camera. It additionally has a filter ring, with a 39mm thread measurement; nevertheless, just like the X-E4’s bundled 27mm lens, there isn’t any hood within the field.
The 23mm f/2.8 lens is constructed with 8 components in 2 teams, together with 2 aspherical lenses to fight distortion, shade fringing and different optical aberrations. The lens has an 11-blade aperture, which ought to make for good rounded bokeh.
The XF 23mm f/2.8 R WR is due for normal launch outdoors of the X-E5 bundle in November for £399 (US and Australian pricing to be confirmed) or you should purchase it bundled with the X-E5 for $1,899 / £1,549 should you can’t wait that lengthy! Once you deduct the worth of the digital camera ($1,699 / £1,299 physique solely), it makes for a considerable saving.
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