On my X-Pro2, I use a 40mm F/2 full-frame lens, with a Metabones Speedbooster. Try Lenstip and Photozone - they talk about the bokeh. Try some other image sites to see if the bokeh looks better. It's tiny, very high performing in all but one or two areas. But also, the 35 has distortion that shows up even after the auto correction. I think the 32 is superior to the 35 mainly because minimum distance performance is significantly better. I own the 27 and 35 and have shot with a 32. (At least that is my impression when looking through the various photos on flickr, whereas the 35mm/f2 is very smooth.) If you're shooting mainly at 5.6, there should be little problem. So either I never looked or it doesn't stand out. It never occurred to me that it's nervous. Another reservation that I have with respect to the 27mm is that the out-of-focus rendering can be quite nervous. The 40.5mm FF equivalent of the 27mm on the other hand would be a bit on the wide side, but I thought I can always crop to get something around 45mm FF equivalent. From the point of view of optical quality, the 35mm clearly takes the lead, but I'm not sure that 53.5mm FF equivalent isn't a bit much on the long side for me.

But there are times when I wish for something more 'normal' with respect to the field of view (around 45mm FF equivalent), and I was looking at getting either the 27mm or the 35mm/f2. I'm in the happy position that I'm currently contemplating a luxury problem, namely, I currently own the X-E3 with the 23mm/f2 lens, which I really like a lot. I would appreciate any opinions and thoughts you could share on this. I don't mind the difference between f2 and f2.8, as I will shoot mostly between f5.6 and f8 for street scenes and travel, and very seldomly would need f2 (and I also got the 23mm/f2, as mentioned before).Īnother possibility would be the Zeiss Touit 32mm/f1.8, whose focal length sits more or less nicely between the other two, but it is considerably larger, heavier and more expensive, and the out-of-focus rendering is (in my opinion) also not on-par with the 35mm/f2.

Fuji 27mm vs 35mm