I am buying a lens for my sister's birthday.The price is almost the same. But I am hesitating which one to buy. Any advice? She has a Fuji X camera. Focusing ring has a distance scale to aid in zone focusing. But focusing is probably misaligned in some way and the distance scale is off — infinity is around 6 meters mark on the distance scale. Anything after that focuses “after infinity” — i.e. nothing is in focus.

This puts the reviewed lens at the higher end of the price range, but it can justify that with its impeccable performance and the fine quality of the resulting images.I just wanted you to know how I feel about the lens. It's not a Leica nor is it probably as good as most fast primes in its focal length but I just have fun taking it out for a spin so to speak. MPB puts photo and video kit into more hands, more sustainably. Every month, visual storytellers sell more than 20,000 cameras and lenses to MPB. Choose used and get affordable access to kit that doesn’t cost the earth.

Get the latest photography news straight to your inbox by signing up to our newsletter. Newsletter Signup How about the XF 27mm f2.8? Is that a consideration or out of the price range you are willing to spend?That said, I quite like it. It's small, has surprisingly good close focus performance (where the Fuji 23/2 is weakest) and dirt cheap. Apochromatic lenses have special lens elements (aspheric, extra-low dispersion etc) to minimize the problem, hence they usually cost more.