If anything, the 16‑80 actually feels a bit bigger to me due to its larger front element.
Physically, the 16‑80 is a slight bit smaller (89 mm vs 98 mm) and ligher (440 g vs 490 g) than the 18‑135, but the difference is negligible on camera. Instead of smoothly blurring, the near-focus areas of the 18‑135 have this strange, hazy look My hope is that the 16‑80 has a nicer rendering, especially for people photos with out-of-focus backgrounds, and a stiffer zoom ring that doesn't creep. Except for two things: The transition between in-focus and out-of-focus can be a bit rough, and my lens extends on its own when carried on a sling.
But so long as I can get the shot, these limitations don't bother me. Of course it is not the world's brightest lens, nor sharpest, nor smallest. The 18‑135 has served me very well indeed. But given that these lenses are somewhat similar, few people on the internet were ever able to compare them side by side. Ever since, I have wondered how this new 16‑80 compares to my 18‑135. In 2019, Fujifilm released a second travel zoom lens, the XF 16‑80 f/4 R OIS WR. This is a lens with a very wide focal range, that is commonly called a “travel zoom” because you could travel the world with just this one lens. When I bought into the Fuji system, I selected the XF 18‑135 f/3.5‑5.6 R LM OIS WR as my main zoom lens. Comparing the Fujifilm XF 16‑80 with the XF 18‑138 Travel Zoom Lenses addEventListener ( "DOMContentLoaded", function ( ) )
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