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About to dive in: Is X-E3 + 35mm f1.4 a good 'single prime' camera choice?

Started Mar 21, 2018 | Discussions thread
Tom Schum
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Re: About to dive in: Is X-E3 + 35mm f1.4 a good 'single prime' camera choice?

PaulWC wrote:

I always loved a single prime lens camera. I loved my OM2 + Zuiko 50mm 1.8 (although I did add a 24mm eventually.) The greatest camera I ever used was an all-mechanical Fujica GS645. The 80mm lens on this pullout bellow-lens camera was a 40mm full frame equivalent. That is an excellent focal length really. A Sigma DP2 has intervened. It had a good focal length and excellent image quality but was an absolute dog on usability and raw software.

I have a 24mm F1.4 Art lens on my Sigma sd Quattro, and a 23mm F1.4 lens on my Fuji X-E1. Effective full frame equivalent for Fuji is about 35mm.

The 23mm F1.4 autofocuses quickly on the X-E1 and is a nice lens.

Instead of buying an expensive lens, maybe you could break in the X-E3 with a lower cost manual lens such as the 7artisans 25mm F1.8 at $70:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1387933-REG/7artisans_photoelectric_7a25f18bkfj_25mm_f1_8_aps_c_for.html

Then if you don't like the focal length you can choose your expensive Fuji lens based on some experience, and the 7artisans would still be useful sometimes.

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