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- Welcome to Pal2tech.
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Today we are going to review the brand new
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Fujifilm 16 to 80 millimeter zoom lens.
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I've had this lens with me nonstop for 11 days now
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in a variety of shooting situations and locations.
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I'm gonna tell you what I think about it,
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the things I like and the things I don't like.
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Before we get into it, I wanna let you know
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that this video is not sponsored.
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I didn't get a prereleased version of this lens
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sent to me for free.
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This is the final version of the lens,
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the one that's released to you and I and everyone else.
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Fujifilm has no idea I'm making this video.
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I paid for this lens myself.
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I ordered it from Samy's Camera in Los Angeles,
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and I paid $887.54 for this lens.
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There's been a lot of anticipation building up
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to the release of this lens.
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Its official name is Fujinon XF 16 to 80 millimeter
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f/4 R OIS WR.
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And I think it it sort of fills the gap
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between the 18 to 55 millimeter
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and the 16 to 55 millimeter.
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What you have here is a 16 to 80 millimeter zoom
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with a constant f/4 aperture
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throughout the entire focal range.
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The glass itself contains 16 elements in 12 groups,
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and man, looking at it,
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(chuckles) you could really see that beautiful glass.
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You're getting the equivalent of a 24 to 120 millimeter
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range in full frame format.
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The aperture range on this lens is f/4 to f/22
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in 1/3 stops.
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The front thread on the lens is 72 millimeters.
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Now that's really cool.
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So if you have already filters on the 50 to 140
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that are already 72 millimeters,
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you can share them with this new lens,
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it's awesome for that.
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Like other Fujinon lenses, it comes with a standard
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plastic lens hood, but here's the thing that's interesting:
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this lens hood right here is actually different,
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almost a redesign and it's much better
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than the prior lens hoods that Fujifilm released.
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With other lens hoods, plastic ones,
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sometimes you have to, you know,
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turn 'em like that, they're a little bit rough.
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This one is loose, it's like really loose
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when you put it on.
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Once you turn it and you get it all the way over,
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it clicks into place.
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It's a really nice, smooth click, and it's firm.
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I like the lens hood.
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I still wish it were made out of metal though,
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but that's another story.
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I did notice that the aperture ring is pretty tight,
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maybe a bit too tight for my liking.
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But, you know what, I'd rather have than
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a very loose aperture ring.
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Same with the zoom ring.
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This thing is secure.
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It is not one of those zoom lenses
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that you turn it upside and it, you know,
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doing, comes falling out.
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It's not gonna happen with this lens, it's pretty tight.
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It's weather resistant, and it's sealed in 10 locations,
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and you can go shooting outside in temperatures
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as low as 14 degrees Fahrenheit,
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or minus 10 Celsius.
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Interesting, there's this weird little drawer-looking thing
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right here that says Weather Resistant.
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I don't know if you can see that.
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It's funny because I didn't see that
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on any other Fuji lens, and it looks like something
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where you put your fingernail in it
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and pull out a drawer where you put a gel
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or, like, (chuckles) a filter or something.
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It's kinda cool.
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This lens features six stops of image stabilization,
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and this makes it great in low light
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despite its f/4 aperture.
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Image stabilization was incredible on this lens
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for both stills and video.
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Check this out, okay, the video on the left
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is shot without OIS, and the video on the right
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is shot with OIS.
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Have a look at that, look at that!
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That's incredible, it almost looks like the camera
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is bolted to a tripod, but I was holding it like this.
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Unbelievable, really nicely done.
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Ah, I love it.
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Let's look at a still photo now.
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Okay, so I shot this one, handholding the camera,
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at f/4, zoomed all the way in to 80 millimeters.
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And as you can see, at 1/30 of a second,
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you can see the fabric; it's nice, it's clean,
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no problems there.
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Here is 1/15 of a second, and you can still see
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kinda the details in the fabric.
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It's sharp, it's reasonably sharp for 1/15 of a second,
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handheld, and I'm not the best hand-holder.
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I'm, ah, I'm not that good,
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so I'm a really good test for this.
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And now moving down, you've got 1/8 of a second.
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And okay, so it starts to get a little bit fuzzy here at,
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but this is 1/8 of a second,
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and it's still a nice, usable picture, you know,
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if you were forced to use 1/8 of a second handheld.
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So again, wow!
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Now there's one interesting thing about OIS:
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there's no OIS on or off switch anywhere on the lens.
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It's very minimalist.
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When the lens is attached to the camera
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and the camera's on the tripod,
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the lens adjusts OIS automatically.
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Now you can turn off OIS, but you need to go
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into the camera's menu to do so.
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This lens weighs just about one pound, or 440 grams.
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And it feels great on the camera.
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Size and weight-wise, this lens is incredible.
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You're getting f/4 all the way from 16 to 80 millimeters
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in a lens that's just a bit heavier and bulkier
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than the kit 18 to 55 millimeter.
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And compared to the 16 to 55 millimeter,
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this lens is as light as a feather.
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It is a great travel lens.
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In fact, a few days ago, I flew to Maryland with it,
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right on Southwest Airlines.
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This lens went through security and in those bins
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and on and off the plane, and you know,
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bumping up against the aircraft windows taking pictures.
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Now I wanted to kind of have this lens
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in a real on-the-go travel-type of environment
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to see how it handled.
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And my conclusion is that, in traveling with this lens,
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it nails everything that I'd ever want
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in a single lens for get-up-and-go one-lens-only photography
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with a minimum of hassle.
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You know what?
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I can get some glue and glue this on, right?
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And just (grunts) glue it on the camera,
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throw it in the backpack and go around the world
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and pretty much get most of the shots I'd want
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with the focal range offered by this lens
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and the beautiful background isolation.
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For sheer versatility balanced with autofocus speed
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for lightweight travel zoom shots,
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this is a really good lens for that.
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Now let's talk about focus and zoom.
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It utilizes an external telescopic zoom design.
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That's unlike the 50 to 140 where the--
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(camera clicking) everything's inside.
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With this lens, if you're doing street photography
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and you need to be kinda discreet,
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well (chuckles) this just screams out,
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I have a lens, I have a lens!
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It's a little bit, whoa okay.
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But that's exactly the extra range you get
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on this lens versus the 18 to 55
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that makes such a major difference when out traveling
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or doing street photography.
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You really notice it when you're trying to take shots
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of things that you can't quite walk up and get to.
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One thing I didn't care for was the zoom ring's
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ergonomics with shooting video.
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I found it to be a little rough and jerky like
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when zooming in for video shots;
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a little tight for my taste.
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This lens has a minimum, are you sitting down?
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Has a minimum focusing distance of 1.4 inches,
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that's 35 centimeters,
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over the entire zoom range.
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This was so nice, and I was very impressed
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with the background and the results
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I was able to get with it at such a close range.
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Autofocus: fast, fast, fast;
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very fast and quiet.
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I give it a great score on that.
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It works very well in AF-C Zone mode,
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quickly switching with a minimum of lag time.
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Now if you don't know what AF-C Zone is,
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then please be sure to watch my focus modes
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of the X-T3 video and I'll have a link below.
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But let's get through the remainder of this video first.
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A zoom lens is always about compromise,
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and I try to keep that in mind when testing this lens,
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particularly because I also happened to own
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the incredible 16 to 55.
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Here's what I found in a nutshell.
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Starting wide open at 16 millimeter f/4,
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we have nice contrast and sharpness in the center,
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no problems there.
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As you move toward 80 millimeter, keeping f/4,
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the corners start to improve a bit
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until you hit 50 millimeters,
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at which point there's really kind of a nice
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sharpness across the entire frame.
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However, once you hit 80 millimeter at f/4,
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the corners, I think, are blurry and weak.
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Have a look, here it is at f/4,
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there's the center at f/4, not bad.
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Look at the corner, not so good, not so good there.
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Just for the heck of it, I compared f/4 on this lens
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with f/4 on the on the kit 18 to 55 millimeter lens,
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both fully zoomed in; let's take a look at that.
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So the photo on the left is the 16 to 80 millimeter,
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and the photo on the right is the 18 to 55 millimeter.
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And as I zoom all the way in, I do like the center for sure.
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The center is much nicer at the maximum focal length
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on the 16 to 80.
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However, the corner, interestingly enough,
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not so good, not so good.
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I prefer the kit lens, quite honestly.
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The best and sharpest place for this lens
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is at 50 millimeter, f/5.6.
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No surprise, no doubt there,
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where you pretty much have sharpness everywhere.
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I also compared center sharpness with both
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this lens and the 18 to 55 fully extended at f/4,
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and the 16 to 80 is definitely shaper at the center
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at the focal range.
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So here you can see the picture on the left
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is the 16 to 80, and the picture on the right
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is the 18 to 55.
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Clearly, clearly, the center, fully zoomed in
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on the 16 to 80 is sharper.
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And I actually prefer the background
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of the 18 to 55 millimeter kit lens,
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but they're so similar, and the color rendering
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is a little bit, in my opinion, more noticeable
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on the 18 to 55.
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Here's the background here fully zoomed in
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at 80 millimeter f/4.
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Here we are at f/8,
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and here we are at f/16.
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And as you can see, they change, look at that.
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And so here, on f/4,
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you have these really nice, pleasing,
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fadey-type of dreamy swirls.
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As we go here, they become more defined at f/8.
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And all the way at f/16, I still found them
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to be very pleasing.