Fuji X-t100 AF vs Nikon D5300's

57even wrote:

Rmcp20 wrote:

57even wrote:

D Longhi wrote:

Hello,

I have just bought a Fuji X-t100, after comprehensively reading about it online. I am a hobbyst street photographer, with interest in portraits and doc-photography.

I had a Nikon D5300. Although it worked fine, I was a little bothered with its colours and its size. Since I strive for the candid shot, it didnt help the buldgy camera making me look like a creep spy lurking around.

I chose the xt100 for its size, price (am Brazilian, and the difference to a X-t20 would be around a thousand brazilian bucks [reais, ahem], which is considerable) colours and overall fuji quality. Also bought a fuji 35mm f2 to go with it.

My question is: having read about its slow AF, how slow is it exactly, comparing to the D5300? Although being into street-ph, I never feel the need to capture fast-moving objects such as moving cars, bikers, and such. I practice a more contemplative kind of photography, if I may say so.

So, in a nutshell: AF-wise, was it a step back?

Thank you all in advance for your contributions!

It will easily cope with anything you find on the street. May not be as good as some DSLRs for sport, but it has the sensor from the XT2, so it should not be that bad.

Moreover, it will focus more accurately than any DSLR across all its focus points, and no focus tuning is ever required.

I notice folks have mentioned XE2 and XA2. The X-T100 has a later gen sensor. I can shoot sport just fine with my Xpro2.

AF speed depends a lot on the processor, and the X-T100 processor is not the one on the X-T2, X-T20 or X-Pro2. Its definitly not a camera for action. In AF-S, quick enough.

True, but is has on-sensor PDAF points, so it is a lot better than an XE2 at capturing single frames of moving subjects.

Without getting into the whole is-it-better-or-not-than-an-XE2 argument, the XE2 also has on-sensor PDAF points.

As mentioned previously neither the sensor or processor in the XT100 are directly comparable with any previous X-Trans camera, for better or worse.