Nielk Mike wrote:
The list Fuji published was pretty much to avoid a "meh" moment for many customers should they view an image of their brand new 40MP camera @100% and find softness away from the center until stopped down. Most of the lenses on the list are sharp enough in that situation, some are on there just because there had been a gap in FL (or zooms) otherwise.
The 35f1.4 at f1.4 or f2 on a 40MP sensor would have been such a "meh" moment.
If you look at that “ready for 40MP list” — which Fujifilm more or less buried shortly after it came out — it is clearly something cooked up b their marketing department to promote mostly newer lenses.
If you can find the original list (and not just the numerous second and third party posts referencing it, like the ubiquitous one at FujiRumors) you’ll find all kinds of obvious inconsistencies in it. You’ll also not that while its claim is that some lenses are “ready for 40MP,” the language used carefully avoids actually stating that lenses not on the list are not “ready.”
Your sample image is nice and sharp - taken at f5.6! What's the point? I have questioned the lens performance stopped down.
I was replying to someone else’s post. I have edited to post to clarify that. That person claimed that the 35mm f/1.4 was left off the list because it isn’t sharp.
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gyoung143 wrote:
The list is just as problematic as Nikon's was when they tried the same nonsense when the D800 was announces an age ago, it was even suggested that a tripod was necessary to get the benefits of the higher res. Driven it seemed largely to encourage trade ins to newer lenses. Nobody produced a lens list suitable for Pan F when it was announced as it would resolve more than FP4. Lens performance doesn't get suddenly worse with higher resolurion, but it will allow higher resolution lenses to show. Nonsense to suggest that the 35 1.4 will look worse on 40mpx than it did on 26, unless you magnify more. And if you are realistic about the capabilities of your lenses a look with the magnifying glass should never give surprises.
I can assure you my 14mm for instance does just as well on tge Xt5 asit does on Xpro2 and Xt3.
Gerry
You are exactly right about the Fujifilm list. (I can’t speak to the Nikon list since I don’t have experience with or knowledge of it.) But this statement matches up with what the Fujifilm list seemed intended to accomplish: “ Driven it seemed largely to encourage trade ins to newer lenses.”
The 14mm f/2.8 is on of the other lenses inexplicably (or not!) left off that list. It is a really fine lens and a great performer — man users regard it as one of Fuji’s best all-time x-trans lenses. (You don’t hear about it much because it is older, only f/2.8, and not inexpensive.)
Mar 25, 2026 at 09:23 AM
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