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Optically, the 10-24 is darn good - very sharp. Perhaps they'll improve the OIS in addition to adding WR. Honestly, it doesn't need much. Would changes to the OIS allow Fuji to make the lens smaller and lighter?
There usually are with all manufacturers. Some of the lenses I recently acquired are far better than versions I have owned previously.
You are absolutely right. Unfortunately, there are variances in mass manufacturing. And the occasional really bad copy gets loose in the wild. Normally those are returned for replacements. But occasionally the person will sell it off thinking the entire line is bad. The flip side of that, is sometimes a better than normal copy/copies get out in the wild. Also, in your case with a rental. Its possible the lens was dropped or mishandled and something was off internally.
and do not care about updating it at all. No aperture markings, or not being WR are of no concern to me, but yes, they should have been there!
Great combo. And, for some, maybe the only two lenses they will ever need. Perhaps add the f/1.4 23mm or 35mm for low light and leave it at that.
Great reason to keep my "old" 10-24. The "new" one is a "Beast"; appearing to be even larger/heavier than the 16-80!
Unfortunately, I'm not in that group of people. If I was mainly hiking still, I could see one or both of the lenses I modeled being useful to me. But as primarily a cyclist, no can do. I tried a dedicated photo backpack, and didn't keep it very long. That's why I keep hoping (likely futilely) that Fuji will come out with an X40 with 1" sensor and WR, or a similar style APS-C camera. Likely such a camera only exists in my imagination.
You’re probably right. But I know I would buy that camera - even if it’s a 1” sensor.
