Without Prejudice 3

[Rob C]

We're really getting some photography here. Well done!

[Chris Kern]

Trying out a new (16-80mm f/4) Fuji lens after dinner the other night in Rockville, Maryland's Ginza district:

(1) The Price of Gas
(2) Xi’an Gourmet
(3) Liquor ⨀ Wine
(4) V-Power Nitro+

[armand]

Wild! I like it.

We're really getting some photography here. Well done!

Thank you!

[armand]

Trying out a new (16-80mm f/4) Fuji lens after dinner the other night in Rockville, Maryland's Ginza district:

(1) The Price of Gas
(2) Xi’an Gourmet
(3) Liquor ⨀ Wine
(4) V-Power Nitro+

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this lens, I've been waiting for it it for years but now I'm not so sure (more like I'm trying to set on a system instead of 3).

[Chris Kern]

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this lens, I've been waiting for it it for years but now I'm not so sure (more like I'm trying to set on a system instead of 3).

I've just had it for two days, and haven't had an opportunity to give it much of a workout other than that one walk home after dinner the other night, but my initial impressions are favorable: it's sharp, even at f/4, with good color and contrast, and low distortion at the wide end (although Lightroom automagically applies Fuji's lens correction metadata, which no doubt masks any underlying optical distortion).  Autofocus on an X-T3 seems both fast and accurate.  It's reasonably light and quite compact: not much larger than Fuji's 18-55mm "kit" lens.  One quirk: there is no control on the barrel to disable the image stabilization—if you want to do that you need to use the camera menu—apparently because Fuji doesn't consider it necessary ever to turn it off; the company recommends using stabilization even when the camera is on a tripod.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Chris,
I really like this set of "test" photos.
The best of the bunch is the second, for me.

And i guess the lens is pretty good, too.   

[Chris Kern]

I really like this set of "test" photos.

Thanks.

Since I switched from DSLRs to mirrorless cameras, I've become rather lazy about testing a new lens in order to verify that I don't have a bad sample.  For this one, I shot some foliage in my back yard at various focal lengths and apertures, and examined the centers and corners for accurate autofocus and sharpness, then tried some indoor shots at the maximum aperture and, again, various focal lengths, to determine whether the lens was focusing where I expected at closer range and to examine the quality of the bokeh.  Since everything looked okay, I took it out that night and made the four images I posted earlier in this thread.

[armand]

in the neighborhood

[Rob C]

I once saw a group of twenty-somethings doubled up in stitches as a male member tried to leapfrog one of these posts that were originally placed on a pedestrian track to discourage bikes.

I was walking towards them as he attempted his athletic number, but didn't seem to realise that two palms placed on a small, sloped area of old wood are bound to part under the load. And they did. Ouch. The most hysterical friend? A girl who couldn't stop laughing.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

You could call that event a classic phallic phail, er. fail.

[Rob C]

You could call that event a classic phallic phail, er. fail.

:-)

[Rob C]

Local landscape:

[RSL]

Wow. Love it.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

"Field of dreams."

[Chris Kern]

Orchid in a Niche

[drmike]

I'm pretty sure my monitor isn't doing the delicacy of this shot justice. (Long live the print!)

It's lovely.

[Rob C]

I'm pretty sure my monitor isn't doing the delicacy of this shot justice. (Long live the print!)

It's lovely.

Isn't it!

Rob

[John R]

Isn't it!

Rob

Yes, lovely.

JR

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Yes, lovely.

JR

+1.

[Chris Kern]

My wife's rather Delphic judgment: "Hmm.  Looks very Japanesey."