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XF 90mm f/2 Sample Gallery -- What do you want to see?

Started Jul 27, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP Samuel Spencer New Member • Posts: 21
Re: XF 90mm f/2 Sample Gallery -- What do you want to see?

Better than the 56, but still held back by Fuji's system itself. I'm purely speculating here, but if a full PDAF system was behind this lens, I expect it would be one of the faster focusing lenses in this 135mm range.

I initially started out with face+eye detection on, and ended up switching it off because it wasn't grabbing the right face, and wasn't gaining me anything over AF-S + recomposing, or moving my focus point to the eye and using AF-C.

Nightscapes? Will do. Sunstars, check. Low light/concert... maybe. Our lens sample guidelines restrict us to base, or occasionally 1 stop over, to get the lens at its sharpest. Concert light, even at f/2, will still be too low to get this below the handheld sharpness threshold of roughly 1/200. A tripod just means that any movements from the band (which a good one will never stay still and keep the energy UP!) will impact sharpness. I'll see if Dan is doing any shows soon so he can at least get the shot, because I do think this FL+brightness+af speed is definitely of interest to concert photographers.

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