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Fujifilm 23f/1.4 and 90f/2 vs Canon 35f/1,4L II and 135f/2L, has anyone shot with both alternatives?

Started Nov 3, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP Pierre from Sweden Regular Member • Posts: 124
Re: Shooting on sports/action and internal GPS

chile7236 wrote:

Pierre from Sweden wrote:

I prefer small and fast primes over large zooms. The only Fuji zoom I think I really need is the 100-400 for outdoor sports, wildlife and birding. If the new Canon 100-400 II is in any way better I will get that instead.

Best regards

/Pierre

this is where I am not totally sold on the X-T2...depending on the sport, the X-T2 doesn't seem to quite match up to DSLRs. I really want the X-T2 to be "that camera" for me but I'm not seeing enough...there's always going to be tradeoffs but I spend 80% of my shooting on sports/action. Not sure either of the new X bodies are ready to take up that workload...

My 6D with only 4,5 shots/s is no real speed monster but it is plenty fast enough for my spots/birding/wildlife needs. I only use the center point AF, and it works in near darkness, it is very accurate and instantly fast. My sons current sports are indoor tennis and floorball and outdoors football and tennis. In winter time slalom and cross country skiing.

For sports I use 24-70f/2.8L II and 70-200f/4L IS both are very fast, always spot on and never hunts enven in really bad light. For indoors sports the one stop faster 70-200f/2.8L II IS is number one on my wish list. The 100-400f/4.5-5.6L II is a close number two. Using a 2X teleconverter on the 70-200f/2.8L II gets me a degraded but still decent IQ at 400mm but it also and degrades AF and IS. It seems I can not avoid owning both these two zooms after all.

Regards

/Pierre

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Canon EOS 20D Canon EOS 6D Canon EF 70-200mm F4L IS USM Canon EF 24-70mm F2.8L II USM Canon EF 16-35mm F4L IS USM
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