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Which lenses to pair with the X-H1?

Started Mar 10, 2018 | Discussions thread
Greg7579
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Re: Which lenses to pair with the X-H1?

Deciding on lenses is the big challenge and never easy.  You won't go wrong no matter what you do.

The Brick is my easy answer.  You know that but like a lot of people are concerned that the XH-1 Brick combination is pushing you up towards DSLR-land in terms of mass.

The Brick is amazing with that IBIS.  It really is a bag of primes with 5 or more stops added to your shooting equations.

The size?  Next to a Canon 5DIV and F 2.8 24-70L II (the equivalent of the Brick), it is much smaller.   The Brick feels great on the XH-1.

But ... if you don't want to go with the Brick then get the great little 23/35/50 F2 prime trio.  With IBIS they are incredible little primes (and were before IBIS).  But then you are missing out on the 16-23 wide part of the Brick.  The 16 end of the Brick is so good that it is causing my Mighty 16 to sit in the bag much more than before I had the Brick.

It's a tough choice and also has to do with the old primes vs zoom decision, which is a classic argument.

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