Some links to reviews of Fujifilm's Fujinon XF18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR lens.
Interesting review by Jordan Steele, a Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Admiring Light. The lens is a tad expensive and sharpness declines at wide and tele ends of the zoom range. The blog looks interesting, so I added it to the blogs and sites page for the future reading.
Review and test shots on Photography Blog. With aperture around f8 the lens is fairly sharp at 18mm even at edges. It is also good at 135mm. The sharpness in the middle of the zoom range (33-100mm eqv) is excellent for 7.5 zoom lens. So, learn to avoid the extremes, or close aperture to f8, and it will be fine.
Opinion about a pre-production version of the lens on Photo Review.
Review on Dan Bailey Photo Blog, with pop-up window asking to sigh up, some animation and other stuff that activate my laptop. The review is written by an outdoor photographer. Not surprising that the lens with such versatile zoom range tends to steak to his camera.
To sum up: the lens is not perfect, but for me the advantages overweight the shortcomings. It would be nice to have it paired to weather-sealed Fuji X-T1. Unfortunately Santa does not brings checks to me, only cameras and lenses :(
Review by Bjorn Moerman (blog), an official X-Photographer: part 1, part 2. Comparison of XF18-135mm to XF18-55mm and XF55-200mm, illustration of the sharpness sweet spot around f8-f11 - all these things are there.
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