Chinese Manufacturers Developing Autofocus Zoom Lenses also for APS-C and the FujiRumors Top Zoom Lens Wishes
According to reports from the Chiense Weibo account 独立摄影师联合会, three (3) Chinese lens manufacturers are developing autofocus zoom lenses, as reported here.
It’s unclear how many of them will be also for APS-C, but for sure at least one brand will be offering also an APS-C zoom lens.
We know: Viltrox is working on autofocus zoom lenses.
So there will be two more brands joining.
In the Chinese prime lens world, we often see just the very same lens being re-branded over and over again. Let’s hope this won’t be the case with these zoom lenses, and that they all will be unique zoom lenses that not only differentiate from each other, but will also offer something not yet available in the Fujifilm X mount world.
And in terms of zoom lenses, here are the top 3 zoom lens wishes as voted in our mega-lens survey back in 2022.
Top 6 Zoom lenses:
- XF 16-55mm f/2.8 MK II
- XF 16-35mm f/2
- XF 11-30mm f/2.8
- XF 16-70mm f/2.8-4
- XF 16-135mm f/4
- XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 MK II
Since some are similar, we could merge them into a single lens, and ultimately come up with this lis:
Top 6 Zoom lenses (with some lenses merged into 1 lens)
- XF 14-30mm f/2.0
- XF 16-55mm f/2.8 MK II
- XF 16-70mm f/2.8-4
- XF 16-135mm f/4
- XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 MK II
- XF 23-55mm f/2
If you want to know what the overall most wanted lenses are (primes included) check out this article here.