We recently reported that Fujifilm will launch the Fujinon XF23mm pancake lens.

This reminded me of a guest post we shared in the past by Pablo, who made rendering about how such a lens could look like.

I thought that given the rumor, we could re-share his renderings and trigger a discussion about how you guys would like the Fujinon XF23mm to be.

Should it be ultra-mega compact and have an f/2.8 aperture? Or make it a big bigger but give it an f/2 aperture as in the renderings above, making it more of a “muffin-lens” rather than a “pancake-lens”?

As reference, you can see how such a XF23mm muffin-lens version would compare in size to the current Fujinon XF23mmF2 R WR. Too close in size? Better make it even smaller and f/2.8, making it closer in size to the Fujnon XF27mmF2.8 R WR?

Let us now in the comments below.

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→ In Short: you can think of it as the merger of these two lenses

Last year Fujifilm asked us which one is our most wanted lens.

And there was one lens, who won the survey hands down by a very large margin.

The very same lens also won our own mega lens survey back in 2022.

Well, according to our trusted sources (THANKS) Fujifilm will launch exactly that lens in 2025.