Fujinon 90mm f/2 R LM WR Review: Break out the piggy bank |
Bill Palmer
This is possibly the quickest review I have ever written, but I wanted to get the word out about the Fujinon 90mm f/2 R LM WR (the Fuji XF 90 to its friends). This is the lens that I have been waiting for. Save your pennies. Break the piggybank. Max that card. Pawn your granny. Get one. Now. Back in the day, when I used on a regular basis Leica M lenses and bodies (proper, film ones) I had a „full set“ of glass ranging from 15mm (Voigtländer) through 28, 35, 50, 75, 90 and 135mm. The „holy trinity“ of Leica was of course 35-50-90 and with that combination one could – and I did – shoot pretty well everything. But there were times when it was necessary to go a little bit wider or longer. The Leica range in M-mount (forgetting for a moment the Visoflex) topped out at 135mm for the simple reason that that was the longest focal length that could accurately be focused on the M rangefinder base length. Contax went to 180mm, of course, with their rangefinder (the „Olympic Sonnar“ was legendary and rightly so) but their cameras were a little wider in the base length and hence more accurate at the top end…….
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Fujifilm Fujinon XF 90mm F2.0
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