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X-T1 to X-T4 Upgrade - Best General Purpose Lens

Started Oct 30, 2020 | Questions thread
JohnS59 Regular Member • Posts: 463
Re: X-T1 to X-T4 Upgrade - Best General Purpose Lens

PaulH74 wrote:

I currently have an X-T1 and am thinking about upgrading to an X-T4. I currently have two lenses, the 18-55 f/2.8-4.0 LM OIS kit lens that came with the camera and the 55-200 f/3.5-4.8 LM OIS. The 55-200 takes fantastic pictures and the 18-55 is generally pretty good, but just not quite as sharp.

I was thinking about "upgrading" the 18-55 to the 16-55 f/2.8 LM WR but I'm a little worried about the lack of OIS. I generally don't carry a tripod, so the low-light advantage of OIS has been pretty handy. So my question is, would the on-camera IS in the X-T4 in combination with the 16-55 non-OIS give similar low-light performance (especially with f/2.8 across the range) to the 18-55 OIS on the X-T1, and therefore make a good general purpose lens.

I don't really want to have to carry a third lens around, so that's not a practical option for me.

Thanks for you help,

Paul

As the X-T4 has in body image stabilization (IBIS) there is no need or at least not much benefit to have also a OIS lens as the 18-55 f/2.8-4. IBIS does the job and probably better than the OIS of that lens only as you are use to on the X-T1.

Sometimes  IBIS works together with OIS to improve slightly the net result with telephoto zoomlenses but I don't think this is the case with the 18-55 f/2.8-4.

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