Two other intriguing perspectives about to Cron or not to Cron come from Charlene Winfred, the truly brilliant globetrotting Fujifilm photographer who has used - and chronicled her feelings about - both the older XF 35mm f/1.4 lens - and the smaller XF 35mm f/2 Fujicron.
Though she recently replaced her XF35mm f/1.4 with the newer XF 33mm, she used the older lens nonstop for many years and in many cases it was her weapon of choice--
I talk about the XF35mm f/1.4 a lot. I’ve mentioned it in half the Fujilove articles I’ve written, which are about all kinds of other things/gear. I’ve written about its F2 counterpart, but I’ve never written about this: the battered, beloved lens that has been on all the cameras I've used for the last 7 years. "I better do it now," I thought, sitting down to write this post. But I couldn't. I've had it for such a long time, that it's become a part of me I can't think about separately anymore. I
fujilove.com
But she also used the smaller Cron XF35mm and more or less fell in love with it--
I’ve had the new XF 35mm F2 lens from Fujifilm on loan for the last month, while Flemming and I were in Colombo, Sri Lanka. There’s nothing quite like taking new gear (to say nothing of…
charlenewinfred.com
It's interesting reading the comments in the latter article; at one point, she categorizes her own choice of which XF35 to use - saying that for manual focusing (of which she has done quite a bit) she prefers the faster f/1.4 lens - but for AF-only shooting, the f/2 Cron works much better.