The lens is great. Very sharp and hardly any distortion. The one thing that could be improved is the cap that comes with the lens hood. The cap is supposed to cover the lens hood whenot using the lens. The hood however will not stay on. It keeps falling off even when the lens is in the camera bag.

Lightweight

This lens is the Rodney Dangerfield in Fuji's lens line. Not the fastest, not the widest, people rush on past to the 14mm 2.8, or to the 23mm 1.4. Mistake. If you're a prime lens shooter, there's a place for a 28mm equivalent lens, and f2 is fast enough.

Sharp; light; small; contrasty; fast enough; core focal length

Won't get you no respect; if you're a zoom person; it doesn't make great sense for you

This lens seems to get a bit of negative press. Yes the image quality is only very good if not stellar. Some CA and the corners don't reach the levels of the centre. And yes the 35 f1.4 is optically better but given the 18f2 is small and fast it's a lens that sits on my xe1 a fair amount.

it's small and it's fast; Image quality is good

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The Fujinon XF 18mm f/2 R is certainly a cool little lens for the Fujifilm X-Pro mirrorless system. After all small is beautiful these days. However, performance-wise it is a bit of a mixed bag.

Lightweight, sharp and well built. Don't expect SLR speed on auto focus but over all It's excellent

I bought the lens as part of the Fuji X Pro + 2 lens deal. I achieved some very pleasing landscape and architecture shots with sharp images and stong colour contrast. I did detect slight colour fringing in some images. Wide aperture very good for low light shots

Colour Contrast; Durable; Lightweight; Low Light; Sharp Focus; Strong Construction

Granted most wide angle lens today are compact, but for the speed and size this one is hard to beat. They could have made this slightly faster but it has a shallow depth of field that is great for my purposes. The images are very rectilinear and nearly sharp corner to corner.

The Fujifilm XF 18mm F2 R is one of the oldest lenses in the XF line-up, and optically one of the worst-performing, with significant distortion and chromatic aberrations, plus a lack of center and particularly edge sharpness when shooting wide-open at the faster apertures.

The Fujifilm Fujinon XF 18mm F2 R has some marks in its favor. It's quite small and light, covers a classic wide field of view, gathers a heck of a lot of light, and focuses close enough for most shots you want to capture with a 27mm equivalent lens.

Light and compact; Wide angle coverage; Opens up to f/2; Very little vignette

Omits dust and splash protection; Weak edge performance, even when stopped down; Focus hunts in AF-C

Using glass-mold aspheric lenses at the 5th and 7th elements, is effective to in increasing the maximum aperture (5th element) and reducing the overall thickness of the lens (7th element).