newyork wrote:
Is the 16-55 ii and/or 50-140 getting a bit front heavy and funky on the xt5? Is that more of a xh2 pairing? Or is it still striking a good balance on the xt5?
I use it on my XT5. It is not a small lens but I never think about it being “front heavy” when I use it — that perception doesn’t cross my mind.
(I also use hte 50-140 and the 100-400 at times on the XT5 and it isn’t an issue for me. In some ways, it may be even less of an issue with the larger lenses given how we hold a camera when using them. We don’t hold it the same way that we would with smaller lenses. With small lenses we hold the body and may not touch the lenses at all, unless we need to move an aperture ring or focus manually. But with big lenses — on any system, even large FF bodies — when using larger lenses we typically have one hand under the lens and one on the body, with the lens hand naturally supporting most of the weight.)
For me, the main issue with the 16-55 and other larger lenses would be its physical bulk, on two counts. One is that it takes more space in the bag. (Though if it replaces, say, three primes the overall weight/bulk comparison is different.) The other is that the one might feel that shooting with the bigger zoom could attract more attention if you are shooting street or similar. (I think of it as “big lens syndrome” — people around you may have a tendency to react differently to someone holding a camera with a large lens than to someone with a small9sh prime on a small camera.
But that’s not a handling issue…
Mar 14, 2026 at 09:08 AM
Previous versions of gdanmitchell's message #17002912 « Small fuji »
