But get to know this system and you’ll understand that each lens serves a very specific purpose. Fuji’s been offering a different 23mm, the XF 23mm f/1.4, since the beginning of the Fuji X-system, and they’ve also produced the XF 27mm f/2.8 pancake lens. That all-rounder status is what really sets this lens apart from its brethren, which on paper seem to be plentiful and a bit too similar. This is a welcome change, as the lens is a great piece of glass and a very capable all-rounder (with Fuji’s crop-sensor, the 23mm lens offers roughly the same field of view as a 35mm lens would on full-frame). On the heals of the new Pro came the XF 23mm F2 WR, and it’s now an available kit lens for both the X-Pro 2 and the recently launched X-E3 mirrorless cameras. But since the launch of the X-Pro 2 last year, this has started to change. But while these primes dominated the initial offerings, the kit lens for most Fuji cameras was the XF 18-55 mm f/2.8-f/4 OIS.Ī strong performer in its own right, the bulky 18-55 was an odd choice alongside the often svelte primes, and downplayed some of the system’s inherent merits in terms of compact dimensions and light weight. Though Fuji’s weren’t the first mirrorless cameras to come to market, both Olympus and the leather-apron’d anachronists at Leica beat Fuji to the punch by a wide margin, Fuji offered a compelling blend of user-friendly controls, modern features, a unique APS-C sensor, and a range of brand new fast prime lenses right from the outset.

When the first interchangeable lens Fuji X-Series cameras launched in early 2012, they were fairly revolutionary cameras.

Skip the technical jargon and what do we have? Fuji’s best and finest kit lens. Fujifilm’s new XF 23mm F2 WR is no different, and it even brings some new letters and numbers to the ranks of Fuji’s X-mount lenses. Most sport an alphabet soup of millimeters and f-numbers, and while these tell us most of what we need to know about a lens, this valuable info is rarely evocative on its own.

Fuji Lens Serial Numbers