Fuji XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS lens review with samples
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Early in their X camera system's life the Fuji company focused on releasing high-quality optics, with brighter than usual maximum apertures, to lure in professional (and affluent hobbyist) photographers. Let's see if this prime example of their strategy can cut it on a newer 24 megapixel camera.
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I always use your reviews as a benchmark Chris!! They are accurate and succinct and using the same format every time helps us all compare one lens against the other. I can safely say every lens I’ve bought after seeing your review have been as expected. Well done 👍
I just bought my fuji system i am glad you’re doing more fuji reviews
Which one did you get?^^
@@ClassicPollycan’t believe i never got a notification for this lol it was an X-H1 for anyone who finds this comment after all these years
@@SunnySoCal Well someone did find it. Im sure youve upgraded by now, what system are you using now. The XH1 is great though.
Found it too😎@@aayanrashid7913
Highly appreciate the Fuji reviews and I hope you keep them coming! Great work as always. :)
Edit: Hey Chris, any plans on reviewing the Fuji 10-24mm?
I recently bought this lens to supplement my 15-55mm kit lens for my XT3. Very happy with it.
How’s the OIS on it? And would you still recommend it to this day(if you’re still using it)? Thx😊
I am happy with the OIS and am still using the lens. Would definitely recommend it.
@@brandonprescott5753 Appreciate it, I cannot wait for mine to arrive at my doorstep next week😗
Like several other Fuji lenses, I really wish Fuji would update this lens to more recent standards ie WR, better AF etc. Otherwise this seems like a very useful zoom range in relatively small package. Thanks for the video.
Hi Chris! Another new Fuji user here since some months ago. I got this 55-200mm and it's fenomenal IMHO, excelent image quality and quite compact. Perfect for landscape photography and hikking. I got also the 10-24mm, and very happy as well with it. Now I'm looking forward for the Fujinon 18-135mm test, I'm thinking on this one to be my all-around lens, especially for very long hikes, carrying only 1 lens. Or maybe the 18-55mm. First one is more polivalent, but second one is lighter, with high IQ and also faster. I wish I could buy both! Anyway, hopefully you'll test the 18-135 while I'll saving money for this next purchase. Thanks for sharing your work, it's really helpful
I just got this lens for a bargain of a price, at 180 dollars I believe it was a steal, I came running over here to look at the review (wich I usually do prior to purchasing lenses though)...great buy and even greater les review, as always, thank you very much Sr.
I'm never one for commenting on youtube videos, but I have been following your videos for years and really enjoy your tests and their methodology. Was pleasantly surprised when you started reviewing Fuji gears as I was transitioning into a Fuji system myself! Would love it if you review the Fuji 56/1.2, I know I will always be looking forward to that video :)
One day I will cover that lens :-)
Another great review again Chris. Very Informative and it helped me decide to purchase it!😀
Great review Christopher. I think that your review are the best on RUclips. You are the only one to use a very scientific approach. Please review the Fuji 10-24, I'm planning buying this lens and I need your opinion.
i've shot so many assignments with this lens it really kicks ass
Just got one in good condition for 280 euros! I'm very happy with the results!
Fujifilm‘s lower end 18-55 and 55-200 are sooo good, it makes it really difficult to justify the more premium 16-55 and 50-140 f/2.8 models.
Fabio Mota the 50-140 is light years ahead of the 55-200 in all aspects.
Well, after I bought the 16-55, the 18-55 sits totally unused.
@@astromanicdave 50-140 is not "light years ahead" at all... more specifically in terms of sharpness it is no better. For portraits, ok, it is hands down better (it had to...). Everything else... not much better...
Goncalo Perpetuo don’t agree. At all. I own both
Dave Connolly we agree to disagree then. And it’s not only me who already checked that they are not that different, specially in sharpness.
Much better for video work than the 70 -300. Used ones are cheap nowdays, very good value.
Literally just thinking about this. Thanks for the advice. I'll see if I can pickup a good used one
This is my daily lens, over my shoulder for street photography, landscapes, architecture, garden, product, reportage… “overall, this is an awesome lens”
This is very much the reach-for lens in the Fuji world for journalism and gawker type stuff where you can’t get too close without trespassing Or getting hurt. I find 4.8 to give just enough DOF to direct the viewer about what the photo is “about” while still offering buckets of storytelling content in the fore and background.
A little too narrow for indoor stuff like weddings and parties; I find it also “looks like” a 50 to folks who remember FF SLR, so they often get closer than I’d like while I’m composing, and indoor spaces don’t let me circle-strafe.
Color rendition combined with X-trans is superb on this lens and I find really good studio portraits can be had out of it when I’m packing light and can find a backdrop on site.
I just wish they’d make a weather sealed version
Comparing Fuji lens to some other brands really shows what a great job Fuji do. Even the less expensive lenses with smaller maximum aperture perform very well optically.
Yes it just not their lenses, their mirrorless lineup is fantastic as well, it fares really well even against FF from competitor, and considering its just apsc just really shows fuji really did a job well done.
Excellent review thanks. Just ordered mine for my xt2.
Choices, choices. Instead of this lens, I bought the 90mm. But I'm sure I would have been happy with this one as well. Good review!
Good job on your channel dude. Great style on your reviews. To the point! Cheers!
Rather scientific review. Reassuring too. I get delivery of one tomorrow. The only obvious downer is the change of focus when you zoom - not great for zooming in when recording video. Fine enough if your using it for stills, like myself.
This is a nice lens. Your results are simular to mine. It is suprisingly goo for airshows as well. Although that is where you will run into a few of its limitations. The IOS is pretty dam good. I found at the slightly zoomed in range of about 130mm it is at its sharpest. 200mm you will loose some sharpness & contrast, for most subjects this is fine, the odd ones, not so.
Very informative comments, thanks a lot !
1000th like 🔥🔥. I don't even know if the work 1000th exist. Anyways nice review
Nice video thanks. Can't wait for you review on the 7 artisans 35mm f1.4 FE full frame Sony lens. Looks very interesting. When you getting one?
Hi! I do have a question about lower light photography. Does the 3.5 vs 4.8 make a big difference between these two lenses (given that the 300-700 is newer and has other features to improve light etc). I often take pictures in lower light situations and want to know what's the best choice due to the difference in aperture. Thank you!
Today I think I ran into the same issue you mentioned in the video. I was taking photos of a waterfall and shot several photos of it at 200mm. The first one was shot at f4.8 and then the rest was shot at f8. I did not notice anything wrong when I was taking the shots, but when I looked at the photos on the PC, the f8 photos looked very soft. The one f4.8 photo was sharper, but not REALLY sharp, you know. Not like the 56mm and the 90mm can get. Anyway, it was very surprising to see how soft the f8 photos were. And also it was annoying!
Still a great lens. The only issue I have with it, is that is suffers from lens creep. Massively.
Would you order this one or the new 70-300?
for a budget zoom lens, the photos look very nice. Sharp and constrasty.
Few lenses look that good on a high MP crop sensor in terms of sharpness. It would be nice of them to keep the optical formula and update the electronics of it.
Hi there, I was wondering would this be a good beginner lens to pair with the Fuji X-H1 Camera? I'm buying it soon but don't yet have any lenses and am looking for something that isn't going to break the bank you know? I shoot a lot of hiking / landscape photos but I intend to do some portrait as well. What would you recommend? Thanks a lot! :)
I have this lens, it's really great, but the autofocus misses a lot. (Not just at 200mm f/8 like in your experience)
Now I know I'm not the only one! Transitional and foreground bokeh is pretty edgy too...
What body ?
@@thefred25chan first I had the XT20 now I have the XT30, the lens behaves pretty much the same on both. Not a great focuser at all on the tele end.
I just asked myself, how good this lens might be. Chris has the answer.
I bought the xc 50-230mm for £230 new. Its fantastic and recommend it as the cheaper option for Fuji!
f/6.7? A little to slow for my taste.
Hey, does that lens have OIS? My mom has that lens and she can’t tell if it’s on or not. I’ve tried it once and I had a hard time being able to tell too. But I was only trying it for a few seconds.
Hey Chris! Any chance you'll be reviewing Fuji's 50-140mm?
Amazing lens! Good job!
I have this lens, and it’s main shortfall is backlit scenes... I had strong CA in this case, often so muc so that it’s hard to correct in post production... even in Capture One
What about martial arts tournaments? I just did a photo-shoot in a tournament with the kit lens 18-55mm, and the 55mm was perfect at the edge (where coaches and teammates stand), but too far from the stands. Plus if I get this one I will have a smooth transition between 18 mm to 200mm with just 2 lenses, and it is not that expensive for the range and aperture. What do you think?
Nice review!
Hi Chris, how are you turning correcntion on/off, in-camera or post?
Hi Chris, I wonder if the 200mm f8 AF issue happened to you was due to the "stopped down to focus" method Fuji used, I know Sony does that to avoid heavy focus shift when stopped down on some lenses. When I had this lens and the XF18-55, on last gen bodies like the XT2 and XE3, low light AF wasn't accurate especially with reflective subjects like dog fur or metal surfaces, newer lenses like the 23 f2 does fine though, I'm sure they fixed it with the XT3/30 gen body.
Could you explain this a bit more? Does the plane of focus shit forwards or backwards when stopping down from f4.8 to f8? I’ve seen so many people saying this lens is so sharp. If the focus shifts when stopping down, how does the lens have such a good reputation. I feel like everyone would run into this and complain about it.
I’m NOT calling you a liar btw. I’m just not understanding this. And today I think I ran into the same thing as what you and/or Chris were talking about. I took a shot of a waterfall and the first one was at f4.8 and the rest was at f8. All at 200mm. And the f4.8 shot looked okay, not super sharp, but not unusable. The f8 shots very very soft however.
Basically I’m just trying to figure out what caused this and wether there is something wrong with my copy or if this is a common problem that I can not resolve by replacing the lens.
I’m shooting with a X-T2 btw
@@just_eirik in bright sunlight stopping down to f8 will not affect AF significantly, however in lower light on older bodies, smaller apertures will hurt AF so bad that you just can't rely on it, this is not a focus shift issue.
And Sony suffers from the same effect too, but on Sony bodies you can choose to use CDAF only by selecting single AF to avoid this issue.
@@kian8382 So contrast detection AF performs better in those circumstances? So basically I could chose contrast AF too if I used an af points outside the middle square where the phase detect pixels are, or am I misunderstanding something here?
@@just_eirik cdaf is always going to be more precise and not affected as much by apertures, you might encounter field curvature issues if you focus too far off center and recompose I guess.
@@kian8382 Yeah, I’ve had lenses with very bad field curvature. Those were “cheap Chinese” lenses with manual focus though. (With focus peaking on it almost looked like ripples in water :P) I hope the 55-200 doesn’t have it, or much of it at least.
Anyway, thanks for your replies. Now I have something to look out for and to try next time I’m out shooting.
How is the speed for focusing? I am considering this lens for youth football photography. I use an X-T3.
Great lens for the money, just know you'll have to live with dust inside the lens. The 50-140mm + 1.4x TC is the way to go if you need the extra stops, flexibility, IQ and weather sealed all-internal zoom.
thanks for suggestion, good option for pros.
please conoder that price is two times higher and lens wight/size is not comparable.
That is little bit pricey for me sadly
TJ Krueger highly agree!!
To price and to heavy for my back
Test xf 35mm f2 please 🙏
i'm not a full expert on cameras yet but was interested in this. I've got a XE2s. Does anyone know how well it works with a fuji macro adaptor?? i'm kind of struggling with the standard 35mm fixed lens i have getting close up macro shots and wanted to avoid getting a dedicated macro lens. any help/tips gratefully appreciated
Maybe I’m too late, seeing as your comment is 1 year old. But I used this just the other day to do some macro shots and it worked really well! Used the macro from Fuji with 16 in the name. Shot at 200mm and wide open. The sharpness was pretty good! I loved shooting macro with it! I have only uploaded one shot so far, but if you wanna see it, here it is: www.reddit.com/r/fujix/comments/jgwfp1/macro_with_xt2_55200_200_extension_tube_mcex16/?
It’s not full resolution, but hopefully it will give you an idea of what to expect. Also, I’m pretty sure this it not 1:1 macro, but it’s enough for me.
Compare to Canon 55-250mm stm, which one is better in terms of sharpness &
contrast?
LALIT DEWANGAN honestly I’d adapt the canon seeing I have a canon system already
I have a x-t4, if i get this lens is it good for sports?
mine doesn't ever seem to miss focus but that might just be shooting style/ luck of the draw
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Nice shots from llangrannog
Notice the excellent image quality at 2:24, to me that is enough. Chart tests become meaningless really. Thanks for the video though.
Please do 18 135 review
Not testet the 50-140 yet?
Does anyone get zoom creep on your copy?
Like the lens extends if you point it down or retracts when you point it up? No. Mine seem pretty solid.
My first copy of this lens suffered terribly with lens creep, I rejected it and the replacement is fine and also appears to be sharper too.
Can you have a re review of the 35mm f1.4? I am still confused if i should go for the 35mm f2 or go for the f1.4
It's mostly the question of image quality ( f 1.4 ) vs user experience ( f 2 ). 1.4 feels very retro, unfortunately the build quality, AF and aperture ring are executed much worse than on newer f2 version, BUT the general image quality, character and feel makes up for it big time.
Mateusz K The 35mm f/2 image quality is amazing though. Not sure how big the differences are between it and the f/1.4, I only have the f/2 model, but the image quality of that tiny lens is impressive to me.
@@Fabio-rg9nv Try 1.4 then, I think it's even better. f2 is by no means a bad lens, i think it's rather superb for its size and price. 1.4 just seems to have that little edge ( at least for me ).
He reviewed the 35mm f1.4 fuji here so look up that review on his channel
Why do you want me to 're-review' - what's wrong with the old one?
Xf 50-140 please...
Can I mount in my x-t3
Yes, this lens works on the X-T3
Pretty sure this is not a professional lens. Maybe an enthusiast one.
tebi tan I have it and would agree. Definitely not professional but very good for enthusiasts. Especially those wanting a lighter tele to taking hiking. If you want pro the 50-140 is the way to go.
correct, the professional version would be the 50-140.
@@RobboElRobbo yep, the only professional spec ones in the Fuji line are the 50-140, 8-16 and the 100-400, of course a selection of the primes are probably up to spec too but not marketed as such.
@@aceflibble a true pro can probably use anything to make incredible photos, even a jam jar of your into free handing. When I say professional spec I am purely referencing how this is marketed by Fuji. It's made to be part of the triology of nicely built zooms of the 10-24, 18-55 and finally the 55-200. Or the Black badge Zoom line. The Red Badge zoom line include the lens I mentioned, they are fully weather sealed, feature Nano Gi coatings for flare reduction as well as linear motors for some of the fastest autofocus in the Fuji range. These are the lens' marketed to professionals in the Fuji world.
@They Caged Non alright the 16-55 too then, doesn't really change anything I've said though consider the topic is the 55-200
That lens cap is disgusting.
@They Caged Non Me, obviously.
@@metal4k787 Q.E.D.
I bought a used one that was made in Japan. Completely disassembled it to remove dust and can confirm this is a cheaply made lens. The zoom and focus ring are metal along with a few other parts and the rest is plastic. If you attempt to make repairs yourself be careful because any wrong move and in the trash it goes. Overpriced new and even overpriced used.
Unnecessary annoying music.