Das Fujinon XF 16mm bietet eine sehr interessante Brennweite an, die ein Grenzgänger zwischen Ultra-Weitwinkel und Weitwinkel ist. Die effektive Brennweite (~ 22mm) erinnert an Smartphones und ermöglicht damit ein sehr intuitives Photographieren. Die Lichtstärke ist eine große Besonderheit der Linse, mit einer Blende von 1.4 fängt es gekonnt Licht ein. Die minimale Fokusdistanz von weniger als 20 cm ermöglicht einen ganz besonderen Look bei Nahaufnahmen, mit viel (teils jedoch unruhigen) Bokeh und einer geringen Tiefenschärfe. Der Autofokus ist ausreichend schnell, macht jedoch Geräusche von schmiergelndem Glas. Insgesamt besticht die Bildqualität durch Schärfe und Kontrast. Bei offener Blende neigt die Linse jedoch zu Vignettierung und vor allem zu chromatischen Abberationen. Die Linse behält auch bei direktem Gegenlicht die Kontraste bei und ist damit bestens für Landschaftsphotographie geeignet. Insgesamt überzeugt die Vielseitigkeit und die Lichtstärke der Linse. Bautechnisch gut gemacht ist sie jedoch deutlich größer und schwerer als z. B. die F2er Reihe. Der Fokusring liegt gut in der Hand. Kurzum macht die Linse verdammt viel Spaß. Leider ist sie mit 850 € teuer und bietet damit kein gutes Preis-Leistungsverhältnis - bereuen wird man einen Kauf jedoch nicht.

Hasta el momento lo que más me gusta es que a pesar de ser una angular el nivel de distorsión es muy bajo , además nítido en extremo

After reading many reviews I decided to buy the Fujifilm 16mm lens and was impressed immediately. This is regarded as one of the greatest lenses ever made and for good reason.

One the best lenses out there.Sharp, extremely sharp. CA-NI-SO are no where close to deliver the price to performace to build quality ratio of FUJI:Image quality: One of the best out there. the F1.4 will blow your mind away with sharpness. (Pixel peepers you gonna love it). There is no complaint in the image quality, color rendition and contrast department.Focus speed: i would say is not Fast and is very satisfactory. But come on who uses an extra wide for sport or action photography anyway.Other qualities: This lens can double as a macro lense too. Believe me this does a great job at Macro photography too. Check out samples online.Build Quality: It is a metal build. No other lens/camera maker have a similar Fstop focal length at this price point. Built like a tank.Uses: Street,candid portrait, event , marco , night city life etc.(Multi Purpose)

I bought this lens because I found I lacked a decent wide angel lens for indoor group shots - weddings, group events, etc. I used the xf 18-55 lens and a samyang 12mm f2 recently on a shoot. I found the 18mm lacking in sharpness and detail, and just not wide enough on some in door shots. Plus, the OIS doesn't help when photographing kids.The samyang 12mm lacked auto focus and manually focusing at f2, indoors, with bad light, can be challenging. Plus my eyesight is not very good anymore.The 16mm is a gorgeous lens. It is well made, well built, and has that premium look to it. Couple of things I saw that bothered me at first.1. The lens has a distinct focusing noise. Must be from the micro-motor that Fuji put in it.2. The hard stops on the focus ring turns past infinity focus.I got over these 2 things. The focus noise is just noise, nothing hampering the operation at all. The focus ring hard stops not matching with the infinity mark seems to be a trait of all FUJI xf lenses (if they have hard stops) and perhaps of all AF lenses in the modern era. The infinity mark does denote infinity focus, so its fine.The bokeh on this lens is very nice. Shot on f1.4 with a subject close by produces creamy background. Having a wide angle that can produce nice subject isolation is very cool. I was missing that on the 18mm.The focus in good light is pretty fast. Not blazing fast, but decent. Low light auto-focus slows down a bit, like all fuji lenses. If I had to compare, it is comparable to the xf 18-55 lens. Not as fast as the 35mm f2.The image is sharp at f1.4. Sure there is corner softness and vignetting, but I crop in my pictures anyway. Very sharp by f2.8 and f4.But we spend the extra money on the extra f-stops, so we might as well use them. In this lens, it does not disappoint.I'd recommend anyone looking for a nice 24mm f1,.4 equivalent to buy this lens before the lens sale stops on oct 1st. Its well worth the $799.

Before I give my opinion on this fine lens, it might help others if I explain a bit about how I ended up coming to the conclusion that this is perhaps (it's early days) the best lens I've ever used.I've been a Canon shooter for years, initially as a hobby documenting my family growing up and eventually turning into a career. I shoot weddings and recently commercial/PR events. My main camera has been a 5D Mark III for the last couple of years, and I own most of Canon's finest lenses. I prefer primes, and I own the usual focal lengths (35mm, 50mm and 85mm L versions), but I also have the 16-35L ii, 24-70L ii and 70-200L ii. I have a pretty sweet collection of Canon's finest lenses.A while ago I began to realise that, perhaps due to my seeing the Canon and bag-full of lenses as "work things" and partly because my back was getting knackered from years of carrying them around, I wasn't bringing my camera with me on family outings as much. The whole reason I got into photography was to document my family life, so I needed to do something about it.At around that time Fuji had released the X100, so I bought one and fell in love with it in some (many) ways, but ultimately it was just a bit too slow to cope with taking photos of my hyperactive offspring. I sold it and resigned myself to a life of carting a DSLR around on family outings in between trips to the chiropractor.Skip forward a year or two and I borrowed a friend's X-T1 and the XF 35mm 1.4. I immediately loved the camera. The lens didn't immediately grab me as much, perhaps because I was used to how a 50mm f/1.4 looked (the equivalent on the 5D I was used to) looked, but I knew there and then that I loved the Fuji mirrorless system, so I bought one along with the 23mm f/1.4 and the 56mm f/1.2.I used the X-T1 with those two lenses initially as my "fun" camera setup, with my wheely case full of full frame Canon gear being my workhorse equipment. Until one day I brought the Fuji and those two spectacular lenses along to a wedding gig. I pretty much used them all day long, until the evening dancefloor action when I needed flash. Since then I've found myself using that same Fuji setup for the majority of the day on a handful of weddings, with my bag of Canon gear sitting there looking rather sorry for itself.I'd pretty much made the decision to move over to using a Fuji system as my main set of equipment, but the rumours of the X-T2 coming out soon sealed the deal. I'm on board. If anyone shooting weddings is in any doubt as to whether they would be taking a step back from using a 5D Mark III (standard equipment for most Canon wedding photographers), just search Google for "Fuji X Wedding". There are some people out there doing incredible work with these little cameras.Anyway, that was quite a longwinded, totally off topic ramble.I've always been a prime shooter, but the widest I'd ever used was the 35mm on the full frame Canon system, always using the 24-70 2.8 or 16-35 2.8 for wider shots. I never got on with them as I tend to work with available light, but I could never justify buying a the Canon 24mm 1.4 as it was so crazy expensive, and the 24-70 ii was soooooooo sharp. However, with a widest aperture of 2.8 it often wasn't fast enough to deliver the goods when I wanted those wide shots in low light (bridal prep, first dance when not using off camera flash etc).I decided to give the Fuji XF 16mm 1.4 a go. It arrived yesterday. Already I'm pretty much decided that this, alongside the X-T1, is my favourite camera/lens combination for the way I shoot. It is as sharp as any Canon L lens I've used, perhaps shaper than anything other than the 24-70 L ii, and the way it renders out of focus areas is simply sublime. I didn't expect there to be a huge difference between a crop sensor 16mm 1.4 lens and a full frame 24mm f/2.8, but there most definitely is, at least with this lens. You get that "prime pop", but with a wide field of view. Somehow it seems to blur out the background better than it should do.I don't know how they've done it, but Fuji have created what I consider to be one of the finest prime lenses out there. For "documentary wedding photography", whatever that is, it is perfect. Likewise as a family-man's lens, it's perfect.I love every Fuji lens I own, but after just two days of shooting I know this is my favourite. I absolutely adore it.As soon as the X-T2 is released I'll be buying two of them and selling all of my Canon gear, using the 16mm, 23mm, 35mm and 56mm for my work and personal photography. All of that can fit into a standard sized rucksack. Plus I'll be saving about £60 a month on chiropractor bills. Winning.Fuji - I salute you.

I've owned both the 18mm and the 14mm lenses. I liked the 18 "okay" - I was never crazy about it, but in retrospect, I wasn't giving it enough credit. However, I've always liked the 16mm focal length more. I sold the 18 in preference to zooms, as well as to the 14mm - Which, on paper, is a much better lens. And it is an excellent lens - at a focal length I absolutely suck at using. 14mm is just a tad too wide for what I'd want to use it for.... Additionally, I missed the close focus abilities of the 18mm.Enter the 16mm.I've been anticipating this lens since I first heard about it. It has far exceeded my expectations, and has now become my go-to lens. In addition to being a perfect lens for street photography and interiors, it's particularly suited for darker situations. The F 1.4 aperture is indeed shallow, but for these situations, it will not limit you - The angle is wide enough that you have plenty of depth, even wide open.At this point, I either own or have owned every prime in the Fuji catalog. I have become accustomed to spectacular quality all around - from the overall IQ, to the handling, to the finish. As expected, it's crazy sharp. This lens manages to exceed my already high expectations. The manual focus is spot on, autofocus is lightning fast (to be expected, it's a wide angle). The weight is perfectly matched to the X-T1. While I haven't tested the WR capabilities yet, I suspect it will do well.What has truly won me over has been the close focus COMBINED with the wide angle, and large aperture - It has allowed me creative possibilities I have never had before, that I am just now starting to explore. These qualities allow you to create wide angle images that go well beyond just getting more in a frame or distorting angles and true unique works of art. The 18mm focused close- I believe this focuses closer.This is the heaviest one of the three (the 14mm, 16mm, 18mm) - While I believe I'd appreciate the weight savings and size of the 18mm still, I feel that it's not as significant when compared to the 14mm.Really, most of this will come down to personal preference -- I personally find 16mm to be my personal sweet spot. If you do as well, then ORDER THIS NOW. You will not be let down. If you already have the 14mm and it works for you, this may be a bit redundant unless you want/need the close focusing or weather resistance. Same if you already have the 18mm and are perfectly content with it, unless you are reserving that for extra light travel - While it has arguably the lowest IQ of the bunch, all three are really good, and you are splitting pixels at a certain point. Personally, I only see the need for one of them -- and if I had all three now, I'd personally still only use this one. Only you can decide, but if you are interested in this - know that there's nothing else like it in the APS-C world.This may not be the most detailed review you will read -- I've spent more time using my equipment and less obsessing over specs - I suspect that's because I've been so happy with the results, and having so much fun with the fuji system. I can certainly tell you from a purely subjective basis that this is quite possibly the nicest prime I've ever used in 20 years of photography - and will likely be the one living on the camera body the most.