I’ve been wondering lately if the XF 60mm F2.4 R Macro is as good on the Fujifilm X-T2 as it was on the X-T1. The XF 60mm was one of the first lens released for the X-Trans series and there has been quite a bit of good glass released since the XF 60mm.

So I did a bit of shooting around the yard as well as with my friend Spot.

I really didn’t get that close with the lens to try it’s true macro close focus and I didn’t attempt to add any extension rings. Just shot some pictures.And in small images it seems sharp enough.  But if you zoom in I’m not finding the absolute sharp spot that I was hoping for.

Wide open the fall off is quite pleasing.

One thing I was pleasantly surprised about was it lens focus ability. If you want to find out your camera and lens work well together see if it can focus on wispy clouds in the sky. I had no problem with this lens on the X-T2.

I was even able to capture the dragon fly in the foreground in this image. Probably have to click on it to see it.

Working with flash with Spot as the model. The color rendition seems to be a bit off.  The spot on Spot’s hand is supposedly the same color as his body but seems washed out.  Possibly because its nearer the flash.

Opening up the aperture to F2.4  shows how the lens handles the fall off. It was pretty good but the the clothes pin isn’t as sharp as I wanted it. Probably the fault of the photographer.

And you can get pretty close.

Another shot without flash at F11 for 10 seconds ISO 200. This time the color rendition is better too.

For comparison this was shot with the XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR lens. Both were shot raw and had the Provia/Standard profile applied in Lightroom.

There have been some really phenomenal lens coming from Fujifilm recently like the XF16-55mm and the XF50-140mm.  I’m really waiting for the promised XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro lens coming the year. While it will probably be more money I expect it to be a much better lens than the XF60mmF2.4 R