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

Started Oct 30, 2020 | Questions thread
Flying Fijian Senior Member • Posts: 1,623
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.

That's a nice set up

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.

Yes the ibis on xt4 will make the 16-55mm a good option & you get excellent image quality. However I hope you realise the weight difference is more than double what you currently have. What kind of low light shooting do you do?

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

Maybe consider xt3 +16-80 as well + a fast prime for low light, it may still be lighter than xt4 + 16-55 & a f1.4 prime is better for low light. You don't always have to carry around all the lenses.

Thanks. for you help,

Paul

Good luck with the upgrade

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