CONCLUSIONS

Once again, it is very hard to find negatives for this lens… My main rant is the fact that the lens-foot is not Arca-Swiss compatible from the start. I’m confident to say that pretty much nobody, will use the lens-foot as it comes with the lens. Otherwise, I’m really impressed with the OIS and the overall image quality. Would I have loved to see it a bit smaller or lighter? Of course, but physics rule and I’m pretty confident this was the smallest and lightest, Fujifilm could pretty much make this high quality super telephoto! Because of the long focal length, I’m sure we will see a lot of comments like: “ this lens is not sharp, look at my images“…. Needless to say, that a good handholding technique is essential to get good results at 600mm effective focal length! Lastly, will I be buying the new XF100-400? More than likely yes, is the short answer! I realise that a relative heavy lens like this one, is against one of my primary reasons for switching from Nikon to Fujifilm, but for my future Airshow Photography, this might be the way forward! After all it is still 200g lighter than the Nikkor 70-200 I use to carry around!

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Björn Moerman FUJINON XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR reviews