Fujifilm XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR Review | John Riley
Fujifilm has been a niche player for many years, producing professional quality cameras and lenses, many with unique designs such as the ranges of medium format film rangefinder cameras. Now it seems they are on a bit of a roll with their digital range, with a steadily increasing arsenal of fine cameras and lenses. This new 100-400mm extends that range to wildlife, sports and other long range applications, so let’s see how it performs and handles in practice. The new Fujinon lens is reasonably compact for its focal length range, equivalent to 152-609mm in 35mm-format terms. This is an amazing range on APS-C format and gives us a very powerful telephoto zoom, that nonetheless balances very well using the Fujifilm X-Pro2 body supplied for this review. From the front of the lens moving back to the camera body, we first have the very substantial bayonet fit lens hood, very deep and highly effective. It clicks into place easily and firmly and has a catch that has to be depressed to remove it. There is also a window provided to allow access to rotating filters such as polarisers. This is better than a removable cover, as found on some other marques, as there is no piece of plastic to lose. The filter thread is 77mm………
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