Fujinon XF18mmF2 MKII Patent Spotted

The Fujinon XF18mmF2 R is one of Fujifilm’s oldest lenses and also loved lenses in the X system.

• World Press Photo 2020 award winner Alain Shroeder shoots mostly with the XF18mmF2
• Travel X: 700 days + 54 countries with the X-PRO1 + 18mmF2:

And yet, it starts to show its age and long has the Fujifilm community wished for a XF18mmF2 MKII version.

• XF18mmF2 R
  BHphoto / Amazon / Adorama / Moment / Nuzira / BestBuy / Focuscamera

Well, now the patent (details below) for a new and weather sealed Fujinon XF18mmF2 has now appeared online and spotted by the Japanese website asobinet.

• inner focus
• high speed autofocus
• weather sealed

in 99% of cases, patents say nothing about real future products. But let’s hope this will be the second time in 14 years of blogging and hundreds of patents covered, that a patent will actually turn into a real product.

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Patent Details

Outline

• [Public number] P2026004114
• [Releal date] 2026-01-14
• [Name of the invention] Image lens and imaging device
• [Apply date] 2024-06-25
• [Appliant] [IDENTIFICATION NUMBER] 306037311
  [Name or name] Fujifilm Co., Ltd.
• [Task] Provide a imaging lens with a smaller F number, smaller configuration, and good aberration correction, and a imaging device equipped with this imaging lens.

Example 1

• Focal length: 18.56
• F value: 2.07
• Angle of view: 81.4
• Back focus: 11.40