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Buy 16-55mm f/2.8 or primes lenses with X-H1?

Started Aug 30, 2019 | Questions thread
Cagey75
Cagey75 Senior Member • Posts: 1,347
Re: Buy 16-55mm f/2.8 or primes lenses with X-H1?

Kenneth Almquist wrote:

I got the camera and the 16-55mm lens. It's bigger than the Nikon D7200, but doesn't weight much more. The only thing I overlooked was that the camera doesn't come with a USB cable, so I should have added one to the order.

The IBIS seems to work well. Below is the same scene shot with both the X-H1 and the D7200.

Nighttime shot using X-H1 and 16-55m f/2.8 lens

Same scene shot with Nikon D7200 and Tamron 45mm f/1.8 lens.

The Tamron lens used with the Nikon has a wider aperture than the Fuji, but the X-H1 is able to stabilize the longer exposure.

According to Bill Claff's site, the D7200 has a PDR of about 7 at the ISO 1600 setting, whereas the X-H1 has the same PDR of about 7 at the ISO 2500 setting. So I really should have used ISO 2500 rather than ISO 2000 on the Fuji to get equivalent settings.

The D7200 is actually slightly larger, they both weight about the same.  I wouldn't worry about any kind of equivalence, just go by what the camera tells you.  They are both APSC so the ISO is the same for both, Fuji just handle it different to Nikon

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