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I have not tried Nikon's mirrorless efforts, but I have been using the Nikon F system for two decades and change now. Also, I've spent quite a lot of time with

by lb1lf 10y ago

I have not tried Nikon's mirrorless efforts, but I have been using the Nikon F system for two decades and change now. Also, I've spent quite a lot of time with various Fuji lenses (For the G690 and GX680 MF cameras and lately also X system) Nikkor lenses are overall very good, but IMHO the Fuji mirrorless ones mostly have them beat in both resolution, contrast and aberration control. (Much of the reason probably being that overall, it is less hard to get excellent optical quality when you do not have to design around the huge mirror box sitting between your lens and sensor!) I'll definitely keep my medium format (film) cameras, but as for digital, I am seriously considering offloading two decades' worth of Nikkor lenses and switch allegiance to Fuji X - once they come up with a wider wide angle lens than the current 14mm offering. (When doing landscapes, I often find myself reaching for the 17mm end of my widest lens - equivalent to 11mm or so in APS-C. The difference between 11mm and 14mm is much, much larger than one would expect! tl;dr: Fujinon lenses are excellent. You are not likely to be disappointed unless you need extreme wide angle or telephoto lenses.

dagw 10y ago
once they come up with a wider wide angle lens than the current 14mm offering. They have the 10-24 mm zoom which is pretty good if you want to go wide, but I agree that I'd love a ~10mm prime.
matwood 10y ago
My telephoto is the 70-300 f/4.5 VR. It has done great with wild life and moon pictures. I also have a Tokina wide angle, but my other lenses are standard Nikons. I'll have to take a look at the Fuji stuff. After my last vacation, lugging around lenses and the camera I started looking at how to lower the weight. Mirrorless cameras seem like a possible option, but good lenses always have weight regardless of the body they are attached.
- lb1lf 10y ago
  Good lenses always have weight, but having to illuminate a smaller image circle definitely helps; the G690 normal lens (A 100mm f/3.5) weighs in at 750g or so; the X Fujinon 35mm f/2? Less than a quarter of the 100mm f/3,5, while still being built like a tank - and probably outperforming the bigger lens in all aspects. Another major benefit of the X series (IMHO) is that Fuji insist on providing proper dials for the most important functions; a proper aperture ring; dials for shutter speeds, mode select and exposure comp. Most appreciated.
  - dagw 10y ago
    Fuji insist on providing proper dials for the most important functions; a proper aperture ring Worth noting that Fuji have started to make some cheaper lenses without a proper aperture ring.
    - lb1lf 10y ago
      -I didn't know that; thank you! (Call me a luddite if you will, but I much prefer an aperture ring to twisting a dial.) It just takes a few shots to adjust when going from SLR/mirrorless to rangefinders - my rangefinder lenses have the aperture ring in front of the focus ring, whereas it is the other way around with just about anything else I've ever tried. (And the less is spoken of the confusion when using a lens with a leaf shutter (where the shutter speed, too, is set by a ring), the better. :-)

by lb1lf 10y ago

dagw 10y ago

once they come up with a wider wide angle lens than the current 14mm offering. They have the 10-24 mm zoom which is pretty good if you want to go wide, but I agree that I'd love a ~10mm prime.

matwood 10y ago

My telephoto is the 70-300 f/4.5 VR. It has done great with wild life and moon pictures. I also have a Tokina wide angle, but my other lenses are standard Nikons. I'll have to take a look at the Fuji stuff. After my last vacation, lugging around lenses and the camera I started looking at how to lower the weight. Mirrorless cameras seem like a possible option, but good lenses always have weight regardless of the body they are attached.

lb1lf 10y ago
Good lenses always have weight, but having to illuminate a smaller image circle definitely helps; the G690 normal lens (A 100mm f/3.5) weighs in at 750g or so; the X Fujinon 35mm f/2? Less than a quarter of the 100mm f/3,5, while still being built like a tank - and probably outperforming the bigger lens in all aspects. Another major benefit of the X series (IMHO) is that Fuji insist on providing proper dials for the most important functions; a proper aperture ring; dials for shutter speeds, mode select and exposure comp. Most appreciated.
- dagw 10y ago
  Fuji insist on providing proper dials for the most important functions; a proper aperture ring Worth noting that Fuji have started to make some cheaper lenses without a proper aperture ring.
  - lb1lf 10y ago
    -I didn't know that; thank you! (Call me a luddite if you will, but I much prefer an aperture ring to twisting a dial.) It just takes a few shots to adjust when going from SLR/mirrorless to rangefinders - my rangefinder lenses have the aperture ring in front of the focus ring, whereas it is the other way around with just about anything else I've ever tried. (And the less is spoken of the confusion when using a lens with a leaf shutter (where the shutter speed, too, is set by a ring), the better. :-)