My first real camera was the Fuji X-M5 with the kit lens. Honestly, at first I got kinda depressed using it. Yeah, the photos were better than an iPhone, but not THAT much better, and the whole thing was way more complicated to use. I started thinking maybe I made a mistake buying a camera at all.
Then I decided to give it one more shot and bought this lens. I honestly thought it would just add a little more bokeh and that would be it.
Holy shit, I was wrong.
The second I started shooting with this lens, everything changed. It genuinely felt like I finally got the camera I thought I was buying in the first place. The shots suddenly had depth, character, atmosphere, separation — everything just looked beautiful straight out of camera.
Now I actually enjoy shooting. I take the camera out almost every other day. The quality is insane, the experience is amazing, and photography finally “clicked” for me.
No exaggeration, this lens completely changed the way I feel about the camera.