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Well i think this is tough to call. A larger format is going to be more difficult to design (more expensive). Then again there are many quality 35-50 designs in existence; so I don't know. Perhaps some of it was the price relative to the not so bad 20f1.7 (micro 4/3); these things are tough to cage. For the fuji lens one could look at the range finders 35 (zeiss and voigtlander) and perhaps the price is quite decent relative to them; I'm not sure. These things are very subjective. 

 

To be honest I'm not quite as overjoyed with the 25f1.4 rendering as other people; and I think the overall rendering of the fuji is a little nicer (though I would like to see the fuji's transition on the focus plane with the zeiss touit punch).