Asanuma 90-230mm f/4.5 Auto-Zoo

Great bang for your buck People are sleeping on this lens. The overall build quality feels cheap and probably wouldn't survive abuse. But if you are someone who takes care of their equipment you'll be fine. This lens takes amazing portraits and has an insane focal ranges for the price.

Yes, it's plastic. I don't care because it's just so good. I have two Fuji cameras and several fast primes. I had used Fuji lenses for a long time on large format and 35mm film prior to buying into the X camera family, so I expected their XF lenses to be very good and was not disappointed. For reference, I am a long-time Nikon shooter and have experience with Minolta and Olympus as well. Fuji's professional lenses are at least as good as any of them. That said, I had misgivings about the XC lenses and had avoided buying an inexpensive zoom. The XF zooms are reported to be very good, but money is an object these days, so I held off. I recently came by an XC 15-45 "kit" lens at a price I couldn't resist and was blown away by the performance. In that cheap little plastic package are some of the best optics I've ever used, easily the equal of the Fuji XF primes. Of course, they are much slower. No f/1.4 or f/2 maximum aperture here, not even f/2.8. But a case could be made that with new sensors delivering good image quality at high ISO, it's rare that an f/2 lens, let alone an f/1.4, is even necessary. So all of that is true for this lens, too. Cheap, plastic build, slow as molasses f/4.5 at the short end and f/6.7 (not even 6.3???) at the long end. But the price is right, and unless I drop it, do I care that it is made out of plastic? The real question is: is it sharp? Well, the lens elements are glass, and very good glass at that. Fuji knew where to cut corners (plastic and slow aperture) and where not to (optical quality). Combine that with the excellent stabilization, and you have a lightweight lens that balances nicely with and X-T or X-Pro, providing a package you can hand hold and get sharp pictures at absurdly slow shutter speeds. If you need or want a tele zoom that you can actually carry around with you all day and that delivers sharp pictures, look no further. I ding it a star for the plastic mount, but nothing more.Read full review

Great lens for the price! This lens is as sharp as lenses twice the price and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for budget with much compromise. The only draw back is that is is a plastic lens, so it is not as durable, but it has the same glass as the more expensive line of lenses. It doesn't feel great in the hand, but the price is right and exceeds the optical quality of all others in this price category.