For years, the Phoblographer has been reporting on tech specs of lenses when they’re announced. And often we’ll see something like, “7 elements in 5 groups.” But like, really, what the hell does that mean? Why is it important when all these lenses have such similar image quality? It’s easy to be new to photography and not know a whole lot about the tech specs that the manufacturers blurt out. So in this case, we asked Fujifilm what they’re talking about exactly.














