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Thoughts on XF 90mm f2 for concert shooting

Started Feb 3, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP TheArtVandelay New Member • Posts: 8
Re: Thoughts on XF 90mm f2 for concert shooting

forpetessake wrote:

TheArtVandelay wrote:

any photographers out there using the 90mm for concert or night photography? I know traditionally I should be using the 50-140m but I'm not shooting as many concerts anymore and wouldn't mind saving some money by getting the 90mm instead.

The problem with 90mm lens is that it's quite long lens and not stabilized. For concerts, and similar slow events you still have to shoot at least at 1/150-1/200 sec with this lens to get sharp pictures. I used 135/2.8 unstabilized lens on FF body (which is a 90/2 equivalent) and I didn't like it at all, I later got much better results with 50-140/2.8 lens, and I'm sure 55-200 would also work better as well as it can also provide some 4 stops of OIS.

I don't know what Fuji is thinking, every lens longer than 35mm should have OIS. They instead put OIS on 10-24mm lens. Go figure.

Yeah I did notice that it didn't have OIS. I feel like in most situations I would be in fairly decent lighting, as I don't shoot many small venue shows anymore so my shutter speed will likely be in that that 1/150 - 1/200 zone. I'll have to give this some thought though, maybe have to rent the 90mm and see how it performs at night and low light situations. thanks for the input.

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