WIDER APPEAL

The ultra-wide prime is a great tool for landscape photographers, but has plenty of other applications too, and Fujifilm's very compact 8mm.

PAUL BURROWS

ON TRIAL FUJINON As we've noted many times, it's with lenses that the cropped sensor formats deliver the most obvious savings in size and weight. And this is particularly true at either extreme of the focal length range – supertelephotos and ultra wide-angles. Typically, an ultra-wide lens has an angle-of-view of 90 degrees or wider and, on a full frame sensor, this requires a large-diameter front element… which is also heavy and expensive plus a number of elements to perform the optical rectilinear correction. Ultra-wide zooms can be even bulkier although the mirrorless camera configuration – with its shorter back focus distance – means that the total number of elements can be less because less optical correction is required. Nevertheless, there's still a lot of differences in the size and weight…

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