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

Started Aug 30, 2019 | Questions thread
Justin9999 Contributing Member • Posts: 725
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.

I say fooee to equivalence.  Shoot each camera to get the best out of each, and then decide which you like best.

One has an aperture advantage, one has IBIS, one has face recognition, one has...

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