Fujifilm Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR Performance

At 16mm, sharpness is excellent from f/4 through to f/11, very good at f/16 and good at f/22. The edges are not in the same league and offer only fair sharpness throughout the range.

At 23mm, the centre follows the same pattern - sharpness is excellent from f/4 to f/11. very good at f/16 and good at f/22. The edges show some improvement but still only fall in the category of fair sharpness.

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At 35mm the centre is again excellent from f/4 to f/11, very good at f/16 and good at f/22. The edges now click in with sharpness being very good from f/4 to f/8, good at f/11 and just fair at f/16 and f/22.

At 80mm, the centre is very good from f/4 to f/16 but just fair at f/22. The edges have fallen off again and are fairly sharp throughout the range.

However, although there is no denying the figures measured, at more usual focus distances with 3D subjects the results are somewhat better, and as the lens is used for such material rather than flat test charts it is a sensible decision to make it so.

Fujifilm XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR MTF Charts

CA (Chromatic Aberration) is very well controlled throughout and even the harshest conditions do not reveal any colour fringing. This may be an excellent lens design, or there may be software corrections happening in the camera that cannot be switched off. In any event, the end result is very clean images.
 

Fujifilm XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR Chromatic Aberration Charts

Distortion measures +0.23% pincushion at 16mm, +0.72% pincushion at 23mm, +0.21% pincushion at 35mm and -0.02% barrel at 80mm. These are excellent results, but having a lens with pincushion distortion at its widest lengths is a little odd and the opposite of what our eyes would normally expect. Fortunately, the figures are low, so it is not intrusive in the images. This is a very similar pattern of behaviour to the recently tested 8-16mm.

Bokeh is very pleasant, and the 80mm focal length does enable us to achieve some nice effects for enhancing portraiture in particular.

Flare resistance has always been good with Fujifilm lenses, and this is no exception. In fact, the results are extraordinary, especially considering the large number of elements. Flare is almost totally under control, with clean results against even the strongest light. It is possible to induce some faint artefacts but we really have to work hard at finding the correct position of a bright light source to achieve anything visible.

Vignetting is surprisingly modest, returning some remarkably low figures across the focal length range.

There are some very impressive results in there, the one caveat being the edge performance on closer, flat subjects. It would seem that is the one area of the lens design that has been allowed to drift, but of course, the saving grace is that with normal 3D subjects this is not really noticed, especially as the centre of the lens is razor sharp.

Fujifilm XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR Sample Photos

Fujifilm XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR Aperture range

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