Fujifilm Fujinon XF70-300mmF4-5.6 LM OIS WR

I originally purchased this lens for my wife to use for her bird watching and photography, when I secretly wanted it for myself to use for Motorsport photography :). Turns out, my wife has turned me into a bird nerd too! We have been fortunate to have some amazing birds migrating through our area.The photos included are all taken with this lens and Fujifilm X-T50 and X-T5. 10/10 definitely recommend

I've been impressed with and enjoyed this lens after my first few days with it. I've been using it with my X-T10. The only other autofocusing zoom telephoto lens that I have any experience with is the Canon SX60 (which I also love), so my review here contains some comparisons to that lens, as well as some comparisons with my manual-focus Samyang 135mm (great astrophotography lens) and the Fujinon XF18-55 (great all-around lens; I guess I love all my lenses).I echo what some of the online reviewers have said: 1) small and lightweight and therefore not a burden to carry around, 2) image stabilization is amazing - easy to take sharp handheld shots at 300mm, 3) sharp (the Cooper's Hawk photo is heavily cropped but still looks great (to me) on screen), 4) fast focusing, slightly faster than my Canon SX60 in bright light, much faster in dimmer light where the SX60 struggles; I took quite a few pictures of my kids playing over the weekend and got many sharp shots, better than what I can get with the manual-focus Samyang 135, XF 18-55mm, or Canon SX60 5) good macro abilities; I'm not an enthusiastic macro photographer, I just enjoy taking mediocre macro shots of insects/flowers on occasion, and this lens seems to have the edge on the Canon SX60, Samyang 135mm, and XF 18-55mm in that regard too, and 6) nice portraits. I didn't intend to use this lens for portraits but was happy with portrait shots of family members that I got over the weekend. Since reach is so long it was easier to capture candid portraits in which they didn't realize I was photographing them; that or my family has just become accustomed to my wandering around and taking pictures of them and everything else. The Samyang 135mm has the edge when it comes to sharp portraits, although with it being manual focus, I miss most shots due to it being slightly out-of-focus (especially with my kids) where I don't want it to be.I can only think of one negative, which a couple reviews also mentioned - bokeh can be kind of weird (illustrated in the Cooper's Hawk picture but not shown in the macro bee shot which has nice bokeh IMO). Although I personally don't dislike the occasionally "weird" bokeh, I don't particularly like it either, it just is.I still intend to use my Canon SX60 for birding much of the time, although this lens might have partially ruined it for me; it will be difficult to not use this relatively faster lens for birds. Even though I lose a lot of reach at 300mm compared to the SX60's huge apparent zoom, some of that loss in reach can be made up for with more ability to crop. Along that same line, it's easier to find and stay on your target at 300mm than it is with the fully zoomed SX60. Perhaps I'll get the 1.4x or 2x teleconverter someday.A couple of other reviewers found debris inside their copies (including a live mite!?); The first thing I did upon opening the lens was inspect it carefully for any internal debris and thankfully it was clean.

I bought this for a safari trip, where I wanted to take beautiful pictures, but didn't want to have a lens larger than my camera bag. It did the job. I was able to adapt to the zoom quickly, it's easy to maneuver, and the photos turned out great.

Love this lens. Sharp images and good feel. Excellent build quality. Using it mostly for bird photography, and it's better than anything I owned before.

I purchased this lens to compliment an 18-135mm on my Fuji XS-10. I have also paired it with Fuji’s 1.4X teleconverter and it is perfect for wildlife photography. With those two lenses I am pretty much covered for a wide variety of different types of photography, but it is ideally used for wildlife photography IMO.It is a lightweight package despite its reach and performance, especially vs the 100-400mm. The lens does have some plastic outer components, but it feels sturdy and well constructed. It’s focus is rings are tight and smooth. The lock button is a nice touch but I have not yet experienced any lens creep while walking/hiking with it in a capture.I will let the images speak for themselves. I am very happy with its performance and look forward to new photography targets this summer. The image stabilization is truly amazing and I can use fairly slow shutter speeds and still get crisp images shooting handheld. Overall the price, construction, and weight make this a very attractive lens to almost any photographer.

Love the lens—light and small, tack sharp, a good match for the X-S10. I’m using it for wildlife, macro, and lunar photos, almost always with the XF 2X TC, mostly handheld, sometimes with a lightweight mo9nopod. Lens + TC + camera is 2.8 lbs, and gives me more reach than my previous 5.5 lb camera + lens. Maximum aperture of f/11 with TC is the big constraint, but IBIS, OIS, and low noise at ISO 800 come to the rescue. I don’t get up for pre-dawn wildlife, anyway. Narrow depth of field for subject-background isolation is still surprisingly good, especially close up, because the lens is very sharp wide open. Bokeh has pronounced onion rings, and the 2X adds eccentric dimples. But that resolves into creamy blur for backgrounds that are a little farther back. The lens is not parfocal, so zooming while tracking would be very challenging, but I mostly just shoot at 600mm, anyway.