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T6I vs SL2

Started Dec 15, 2017 | Discussions thread
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Re: T6I vs SL2

ZedDoctor wrote:

Current Fuji user looking to add a different brand.

Mostly portrait and car photography. Occasional trains here and there.

Local store has T6I with 18-135 kit for $50 more than SL2 with 18-55.

Thoughts? Recommendations?

I would lean toward the SL2.  Primarily for the excellent Dual Pixel Autofocus which will give you outstanding Live View AF, as well as rock solid Video AF (if that's your thing).

Phase Detect (viewfinder) AF will be very close between the two, even though the difference looks big on paper.  Very similar controls.  SL2 is physically smaller.

The two cameras really are pretty close except for the guts (love the SL2's gutsĀ  ).

If you really prefer the T6i's form factor and features, then I'd pony up for the T7i (it has good guts too).

Can anyone make a suggestion or two on lenses to get for this.

My friend gave me his 10-18 IS STM, 24 2.8 STM, and 50 1.8 STM.

Nice start.  Nice friend!  All you need now is a "kit" lens.

Do you think that the 24-105 f4 L would be too much for it?

Like the others have mentioned, 24mm at the wide end really is too long on a crop sensor (esp for what you want to shoot).  It's capabilities are much better suited to full frame (I've shot it on crop).

You could get by with the 18-55 STM, but I would really opt for the 18-135 STM.  A lot fewer lens changes.  Plenty of sharpness for cars, trains, and candids/street.  Adequate sharpness for formal portraits (but you're much better off with the primes for those).

18-135 STM sample portrait on a 70D (worse guts yet)...

18-135 STM @ f/5.6.  ISO 800.  Click on "original size"

Good luck in your quest!

R2

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