London, Fuji XE-1 and the underrated 18mm lens.
Many, many fish.
The Fuji 18mm lens, ofter overlooked as the 'worst' lens in the fuji X lineup, well let you tell you, this lens is awesome.
To test this lens out I though I'd head off and only use the 18mm all day, as such I recently headed to London for quick day trip and took with me the Fuji XE1, 18mm lens and a polarising filter. The filter was a quick addition as I enjoy being able to control reflections and also you loose 2 stops of light so it acts as a kind of ND filter, great for shooting wide open on a bright day, which is most certainly was.
Whilst in London we took in a fair number of sights as we only had the day, having one lens was great as I wasn't tempted by the usual 'I bet this will look better with this lens' thoughts that usually go through my head moments before changing to a different lens and a few moments before I miss whatever I wanted to shoot because I was changing lenses.
I can safely say that this lens has it covered if you need a lightweight, compact and simple lens for walk-around photography, it renders some nice bokeh in the right circumstances and is a very nice width, not super wide but still able to be used for a bit of street photography.
That's it for this blog post, I've kept this one nice and image heavy, so check them out and pop your thoughts down the bottom.
Cheers, Col-
