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Canom M50 or Fuji XT100

Started Jan 20, 2020 | Discussions thread
Ben Herrmann
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Sorry...
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...but I'll have to disagree about the Fuji XC 15-45 F3.5-5.6 IS PZ lens.

To begin with, when the Fuji XC 15-45 Power Zoom kit lens was first released, I was one of the first to give her a go.  I soon found that once I got past the all plasticky construction, optically it was absolutely superb for the genre it occupies.  Yes, it's a power zoom lens and I prefer more normal zoom ring type of scenarios.  But as I mentioned, once I got over this, I was rewarded with images that can keep up with many of the big, much more expensive big boys for the money.

Now the Canon EF-M 15-45 F3.5-6.3 IS STM feels like a much better build quality to be sure - even though it's all plastic also.  But the Canon version has a very poor copy to copy variation history - more so than most lenses in the Canon inventory (I know I've been there).  In addition, the Canon lens is slower on the long end.

On the Fuji XC-15-45, its a bit faster on the long with the maximum aperture of 5.6 as opposed to 6.3 on the Canon.  In addition, the Fuji XC-15-45 - thanks to the 1.5 crop factor on the Fuji cameras in general - winds up giving you the equivalent of a 22.5 MM wide angle, which is huge.  As you may, or may not know, having even an additional 1 MM on the wide end can make a world of difference.  I now have 3 copies of the Fuji XC 15-45 (one silver and two black) and the results I'm getting sometime just astound me.

As for the X-T200, well, I only have the X-T100 (at the moment), and I can easily say without exaggeration that the high ISO capabilities of the Fuji cameras are a cut above the EOS M line (and remember, I use both systems), along with it's superb dynamic range capabilities.

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