Fujifilm XF50-140 mm F2.8 R LM Optical Image Stabiliser, Weather Resistant Lens

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Football on Roof, 15 January 2015. Fuji X-E2, Fuji 50-140mm at 140mm, wide-open at f/2.8 at 1/3,000 at Auto ISO 200. Camera-original file.

Fuji mentions only a 10 foot (3 meter) close focus distance if you're not in the Macro mode, but I've never seen this. The stabilizer works extraordinarily well. Fujinon knows stabilizers better than anyone; they make the stabilized binoculars used by NASA, as well as my Techno Stabi 10x40 binoculars I use. My 14 power binoculars give me a stable image, even from small fixed-wing aircraft! I think Fuji's been making stabilized binoculars longer than anyone's made stabilized camera lenses. At the very least, it seems a lot less unwieldy, but again, that's my own opinion and I haven't run tests specifically to compare the processing times required. I should also mention that I don't usually end up having to process large numbers of images in that manner. I only really use ED when some aspect of the image can benefit from the improved details processing (lots of foliage would be a great example of that). ED just seems easier and more straightforward. But that said, they're both good options and whichever one best suits your workflow would be a logical choice. The Fujifilm XF 50-140mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR lens attached to the Fujifilm X-T1 Graphite Silver camera

Fujinon 50-140 OIS Build, Features, and Handling

This is a professionally-constructed metal-bodied and metal-mounted lens. This is made really clear from the outside by the provision of a tripod collar - which is used to give balance to the camera using a tripod or monopod, but because it rotates also allow you to smoothly switch from landscape to portrait formats. I probably wouldn’t spend the money on a 100-400mm lens unless I knew I would be shooting wildlife regularly (and, for example, didn’t live in the middle of a big city…which I do). A happy penguin couple 🙂 Should you also buy a teleconverter? Inside the micro-corrugated cardboard box are pulp-formed cardboard holders for the plastic-wrapped lens and hood. A small folded tray of microcorrugated cardboard lies on top to hold the manual and lens wrapping cloth. The lens weighs in at 995 grams, which is around two-thirds that of the Nikon or Canon equivalents. It is also significantly smaller, measuring 176mm in length as the filter thread is only 72mm, the lens barrel feels significantly narrower than the larger lenses as well. The size and weight were some of my biggest worries when I began considering this lens, but after holding it I felt all that slip away. It feels much lighter than the larger lenses for full-frame 35mm sensors, and fits snuggly in the corner of a small bag where the larger lenses would not. Photo taken with the Fuji 50-140 + 2x Teleconverter @ 212mm f/5.6 1/450 ISO 200 Do you need a battery grip to use this lens comfortably?

The lens is pretty easy to use too. The aperture ring is great, though if you don’t like using it you can set it to A and can control the aperture via the camera body. The lens zooms internally so there’s no need to worry about lens creeping. I should not that all but the first image in the next set was taken with both the 50-140 lens and the Fuji TC 2x teleconverter. Since my primary use case for this lens was wildlife, most images use both. A herd of zebras just munching in Kruger National Park, not using the teleconverter Baby hyena in the den (with teleconverter) An afternoon quarrel (with teleconverter) This crocodile photo is both zoomed all the way to 280mm, but also cropped. I would’ve needed Fuji’s 100-400 to really nail this photo, but I think it’s still decent for the web. Where to buy this lens The Fuji XF 50-140mm OIS WR is optically close to perfect, and is also very well built. It just replaced the Fuji 55-200mm as the world's best APS-C telephoto zoom. The OIS is fantastic. You can literally hand hold this thing at 140mm at 1/50 and get sharp results free from motion blur. It really is quite good. So even after dark this thing becomes VERY useful. Shot handheld at 140mm at 1/80s. f/2.8 Chromatic aberrations, typically seen as purple or blue fringes along contrasty edges, are not a problem with the Fujifilm XF 50-140mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR lens, so much so that we couldn't find any examples in our test shots. MacroThe first copy of the lens I had perplexed me, as I had read a number of reviewers touting its great sharpness…but I just wasn’t seeing it in my tests. This triggered a memory that when the lens arrived to me (a loaner from Fujifilm Canada), the front lens cap was deeply impacted and hard to remove. I realized that the lens had probably been dropped during transit in such a way that some serious pressure had been put on the front of the lens (jamming the front lens cap in). I alerted Fuji, and they sent me a second copy, which has proven to operate far more in line with expectations.

Since I took the lens on safari, for me it was a no-brainer that the extra reach was necessary. In fact, next time I’d probably rent the 100-400mm lens just for that occasion.Image quality of both is pure Fuji - beyond reproach. It's pretty clear by now why Hasselblad switched from Zeiss to Fuji for their H-series lenses. In the XF line-up the 14/2.8, 56/1.2 and now these two lenses underline that. Fujifilm’s XF 50-140mm f2.8 is a bright telephoto zoom for its X-mount mirrorless cameras. Announced in September 2014, it delivers a popular 75-210mm equivalent range with a constant f2.8 focal ratio that’s ideal for close-range sports, action and wildlife shooting, as well as portrait work with flattened perspective and shallow depth-of-field effects. Do I need the f2.8 aperture, weather resistance, and opportunity to extend with a teleconverter, e.g. for wildlife photography? Get the 50-140mm f2.8. Most of the improvements on sharpness and contrast can be fixed with small adjustments in Lightroom What little distortion there is can be corrected for more critical use by plugging these figures into Photoshop's

There’s a small ample amount of noise coming from the lens when the camera is turned on and during operation. I suspect it has something to do with the OIS or the focus motors. You have to put your ear within millimeters of the lens to notice. Radiant Photo– Radiant Photo superior quality finished photos with perfect color rendition, delivered in record time.Your photos — simply RADIANT.The way they are meant to be. The Fujifilm XF 50-140mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR is an undeniably large and heavy telephoto lens, weiging just under 1kg and dwarfing the X-T1 camera that we tested it with. It's the largest, longest and heaviest XF lens currently available, although if you compare the 50-140mm / X-T1 combination to the Canon or Nikon equivalent, it's about 40% lighter and smaller overall. So, depending on your viewpoint, the Fujifilm XF 50-140mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR marks quite a departure from the more dimunitive lenses in the XF lineup, or it's a lighter alternative to the Canon/Nikon offerings. Thankfully the length of the lens doesn't change even when it's fully zoomed out. This was extremely helpful when on safari, because I didn’t know how close I would be to an animal. They can be really far away, or right next to the Range Rover. There's a pop-out and easily lost little cover that lets you try to fiddle with a rotating polarizer or grad.

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Here's a shot directly into the sun. You won't see anything this bad in actual use, but if you go out of your way to do stupid things like this (pointing a telephoto lens directly into mid-day sun), you'll see flare and ghosts like this: