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55-200mm or 50-140mm

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By Cynthia April 30, 2016 in Fuji X Lenses

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Cynthia

Posted April 30, 2016

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I'm sure there are more discussions with these two lenses.

I doubt between these two lenses. I allready have the 10-24 mm, 18-55 mm.

I like to takes pictures of my kids playing around, studio portrait, architecture, landscape and street photography.  So like several things.

 

I wonder if the 50-140 is worth the price if I want to use this for portrait and playing kids? or shoud I go for the cheaper 55-200 mm and buy the 35 f2?

 

Can you use the 55-200 mm for studio portrait or even my 18-55mm?

 

If I buy the 50-140 mm do I still need to buy a portrait lens like the 56 mm f1.2?

 

I hope someone can help my out

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Hi Cynthia, Take a look here 55-200mm or 50-140mm. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!

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I find that the bokeh on the 55-200 is very nice and underrated compared to other lenses. It's a little bit slower, but I prefer having the extra reach out to 200mm. It's also much lighter. The 50-140mm does have weather sealing, but I don't really need that feature for how I use it.

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50-140mm is focusing much faster, so better for fast moving kids : )

 

18-55mm is absolutely great lens for studio portraits, same as 55-200mm.

For street shooting and architecture I'd use 18-55 + 35mm 2 for more discrete and relaxing shots.

 

Personally I've sold 50-140mm and purchased 55-200mm again + few extra lens for that cost difference : )

 

XF55-200mm on 200mm f4.8 (X-E2)

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Posted May 4, 2016

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Nice pictures. And again thank you for your comments.

I rented a 50-140 lens this weekend. It is a really great lens but big. I tried different things with this lens.

I used it to photograph my son during football with the 50-140 with the extender 1.4.  I tried it for studio portrait and my conclusion with this is that my 18-55 had the same result as the 50-140. 

A great lens and you get used to it's size. But for the things I'll use it for I think the 55-200 zoom is good enough for me.

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Posted May 5, 2016

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Posted May 5, 2016

Also in The Netherlands? Or only in the States?

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Posted May 5, 2016

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The 35 F2 is faster AF than the F1.4 but the F 1.4 is faster aperture, ie you will be able to blur backgrounds more.

 

Not only that I find the rendering on the F1.4 to be nicer, at this point its a purely subjective thing, they are both sharp fantastically executed lens. The F2 is sligthly more clinical and the F1.4 is warmer, more film like and better for Portrait. They both excel at Street.

 

Fast AF is not everything, also the 35mm has rarely let me down in most conditions. We are talking fairly small differences these days with a X-E2/X-E2s, X-T1 or X_T10 or X-Pro2 body when it comes to AF. 

All my favorite pictures in this system have come from the 35mm F1.4 including those of my daughter. I have one of her that is probably my proudest moment. However I don't share pictures of my daugther on the internet. 

 

I have jsut put a gallery of 90mm street images up in this forum and you can check out my flickr stuff here, have a look at the 35mm images.

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10596811@N04/

 

Specifically have a look at Team Building a great image from my 35mm. Also my avatar of the lightbulb was shot with the 35mm.

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Also in The Netherlands? Or only in the States?

 

 

The various European Fuji are usually stingy but there have been cashbacks on and off lately but they appear to have been stopped at this moment in time at least for lenses alone while tyou can find them on cameras and cameras with lenses.

 

http://www.kamera-express.nl/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/org-ke_nl-Site/nl_NL/-/EUR/ViewParametricSearch-SimpleOfferSearch?webform-id=WFSimpleSearch&DefaultButton=findSimple&SearchCategoryUUID=&WFSimpleSearch_NameOrID=Fujifilm+90mm+&findSimple=Zoek

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I own the 50-140 now, and I've borrowed the 55-200 and 56 (me and a friend have a pool of lenses between us that we lend to each other). It goes without saying that all the lenses perform very well.

 

Before I bought the 50-140, I borrowed the 55-200 for a few events. It was very good, but I needed to use flash indoors sooner than I would have liked. I'm not averse to using on-camera flash at events, but in some situations I'd prefer to go without. So I rented the 50-140 from 'hire-a-camera' (great company btw).

 

My experience renting the 50-140 was profound, and was the first moment I thought "Ah, so this is why pro lenses are so expensive". I'd never used or purchased a lens anywhere near this expensive before. I returned the hire lens, borrowed some money and bought one. In the past I've agonised over purchasing lenses half this price, but for this one I didn't bat an eyelid.

 

The lens is a pleasure to use, and just works in every way. The AF is quiet and fast. It doesn't feel like elements are being moved around inside like on some of the earlier primes I have. In this way it feels the same as the 18-55. The OIS does make some noise, but it's just a quiet hum that doesn't bother me. On the subject of OIS, for static subjects in low light, I often use this lens at 1/60s throughout its range. The feel of the lens is very solid. The zoom range is covered with a short twist which I like, and the broad rubber grip of the zoom is comfortable.

 

I haven't noticed any issue with the image quality, but I don't pixel peep. I've read some people saying they don't like the bokeh, but it looks great to me. Needless to say, subjects look very sharp and I don't see any obvious aberrations. But the real pleasure for me is how this lens is in use.

 

When I was buying the lens, I also read about the olympus 40-150/2.8, which seems to be a very similar lens, but with a better finish. This lens has the manual focus clutch on the focus ring and a retracting lens hood. Both look like great features that fuji should take note of.

 

For me, the 56 is a different breed. It's a lovely compact lens which can produce much shallower depth of field. I'd love to have one for closer portraits. For events, it's not versatile enough for me. I find myself shooting a lot around the 90mm mark with the 50-140, so I think the 56 would lack reach in a lot of situations.

 

Just my two pennies worth, I hope it's helpful (if a bit long winded!)

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Because you are asking for using the zooms for studio portraits I would like to mention one advantage for the 50-140mm. It has a fixed aperture compared to the 55-200 (at least below f 4.8). This is very important if you want to use a studio flash with a fixed flash power. If you zoom with the 55-200 you will change the exposure. Other than that I prefer the 55-200 for traveling because it is so much lighter and smaller... 

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Frankly speaking for studio portraits you would always be better off with any dedicated portrait lens rather than a zoom.

 

If the 90 is what you want go for it, for me it is way to heavy.

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Re: portraits and street

 

I picked up the Fuji because I wanted to do street photography without carrying around a backpack full of lenses. My other cameras are a Sony A7r2 and a Nikon D810, so I'm used to having the extra pixels and processing latitude of a full frame. With the fuji, there is a little less exposure latitude and ability to crop. The Fuji kit is lighter, stealthier, and the handling is better--MUCH better than the Sony--so you get shots you wouldn't otherwise get. But the point is, you really want stellar optics to make the most of the smaller sensor. The 50-140 is a beast of a lens, so keep that in mind. Do you really want to lug around that big of a lens for your small / light mirrorless?

 

The 35mm f/2 is sharp and fast--great for street--and doesn't block the OVF. Haven't tried the f/1.4. For street, you often find yourself in low light levels, so f/2.8 is often not fast enough!

 

The 56mm (85mm equivalent, let's not forget) is even sharper and faster, and should be fine for portraits.

 

This site has bench tests on pretty much all of the Fuji lenses: http://www.lenstip.com/index.html?producent=66&obiektyw=1224&typ=0&moc=0&sort=

The blur chart of the 90mm is amazing: http://www.imaging-resource.com/lenses/fujinon/xf-90mm-f2-r-lm-wr/review/

 

Here is my site with street photos, all these were taken with the 35mm f2: http://www.ericyphotography.com/#!street/f0gtw

 

p.s. gordonrussel76: I like your street shots with the 90! I'll have to give that one a try. '-)

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If you're in erk1024's (enviable) position and have three systems, I'd agree - save your big pro tele zoom for the DSLR system. Undoubtedly, the Fuji X cameras, like all other mirrorless cameras, are best used with a small lens. They'll handle better and will be easier to carry around.

 

However, if you're like me and only use one system that you want to be as versatile as possible, the size of a tele zoom isn't a problem. At the end of the day, both the 55-200 and the 50-140 dwarf any of the fuji bodies. I decided that if I was going to put the 55-200 on my x-e1, the extra size of the 50-140 was irrelevant. The 55-200 is pretty long when extended anyway.

 

A comment on the variable aperture of the 55-200 when using flash: when I take photo's with off-camera flash, I'm always in the mid apertures to control the flash exposure. Perhaps people do use flash with the lens wide open -  it's certainly a skill I haven't mastered. I imagine it's very difficult (ND filter?). So for me, this wouldn't be an issue.

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