Some­where along the line, I decided that the ideal every­day Fuji kit for me was either the X-E1 or X-E2, the Fuji­non 18mm f/2 XF R, the Fuji­non 35mm f/1.4 XF R, and the Fuji­non XF 18–55 f/2.8–4 R LM OIS. I was prompted to blog about this lens after I did Google search after Google search look­ing for opin­ions and exam­ples of real-world exam­ples of the lens’s bokeh at 55mm. Obvi­ously, the 60mm macro is going to have ‘bet­ter’ bokeh with it’s faster aper­ture and slight focal length edge, but I wanted to quan­tify things a lit­tle more. If I were going to travel some­where, I would take one of the two lenses and leave the other at home, so for me it mattered–was the 18–55 good enough at 55mm to func­tion as a por­trait lens as well as being a ver­sa­tile, com­pact, do-everything lens?….

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Fuji X-E1 Fuji X-E2 Fujifilm Fujinon XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS Mark Schueler Sample Images