Additionally, with this lens' superb image quality and the Xt1's beautiful jpegs, especially B+W jpegs, my suspicion is that I'm about to embark into some personally-unexplored areas of photography, which is very exciting

super quality but was not what I expected or needed

Superb image quality, with amazing sharpness across the field of

Amazing image quality and colors right out of the camera

Because of the excellent image quality at f2, I imagine I'll use this mostly to separate interesting and beautiful subjects from the background.

Superb build quality; we are in Zeiss/Schneider territory with a lens like this++ Made in Japan++ Nearly

An absolutely stunning lens...glued to my camera...it is nothing short of awesome ...beautiful bokeh, color rendering, sharp as a tack, quality

(By the way, the Fuji XF 55-200mm lens, which gets very good reviews, but not usually as high as some of Fuji's primes, has some of the best color and image quality I've seen

Some argue that lenses with anti-shake can, in some cases, actually slightly DEGRADE image quality, but that's for a different discussion

Bokeh can be very subjective to opinion, but I feel that the bokeh produced is as close to perfect as you can get.

use++ A quite wide F/2 means that it can be used in low lighting situations, as well as for portraiture++ Silky smooth manual focus and aperture rings, should you choose to use

This lens is as close to flawless as you will get