One lens for everything, for a Fujifilm owner
For the person who wants to stop carrying a bag of lenses.
Changing a lens in the street is a nuisance. A bag full of lenses to change between is a heavier nuisance, and it is the reason a camera stays at home.
If they would rather carry one lens and complain about none of them, this is the one. Wide enough to fit a whole room, long enough for a face across a table, and sealed against rain. It is the lens most Fujifilm owners end up leaving on the camera.
So the answer is
Fujinon XF 16-50mm f/2.8-4.8 R LM WR
Wider than the lens these cameras used to come with, so a whole room fits, and sealed against rain. Light enough to leave on the camera and forget about.
The present
What goes with it
Not needed on the day. Add one if you want the present to feel finished.
Filter
K&F Concept UV filter, 58mm
A clear disc of glass that screws onto the front of the lens and stays there. It costs little and it takes the scratch instead of the lens.
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Two other ways to go
Another way
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR
Starts wider and reaches a good deal further than the lens most of these cameras are sold with, and it is sealed against rain. The one to give somebody who would rather carry nothing else.
Another way
Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R WR
The portrait lens people buy a Fujifilm camera for. Faces are beautiful and the background turns to colour.
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