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Deliberating on kit for event and portraiture. 16-55, or others?

Started Dec 11, 2018 | Discussions thread
mma2 Regular Member • Posts: 284
Re: Deliberating on kit for event and portraiture. 16-55, or others?
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I shoot events for my church and am a former Nikon shooter that used 24-70/2.8 and 70-200/2.8 Nikkors for this purpose.  After switching to Fuji, I have found the 18-55 to be quite limiting for events held indoors when flash is not an option.  Often there just is not enough light to use a shutter speed sufficient to minimize blurring of moderate-rate people movement (OIS doesn't help in many situations).

I recently purchased a 16-55 to use with my X-H1.  Big difference, big improvement in capturing the moments with the extra aperture. I'm back to where I was with the Nikon normal zoom.  It is now my go-to lens for these events.  At the moment, I haven't needed more FL often enough, but if I did, I would strongly consider the 50-140 for its aperture as well as the flexibility of a zoom.

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Nikon D500 Nikon Z50 Nikon Z5 Nikon AF-S Teleconverter TC-14E II Nikkor AF-S 300mm f/4E PF ED VR +13 more
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