Fast lenses for night action shots

Putting aside focal length, I would say take a look at the Fujinon XF 35mm f/1.4 R. A solid lenses.

Here is a image I made using this lens, shot it square (1:1) ratio at f/1.4 @800 ISO.

Good luck.

Mark

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sifro wrote:

Hi everyone, this is my first post here!

I would like to buy a new lens to take pictures of people dancing at local dancing events, so I will have to shoot moving subjects in low-light conditions, from quite a close distance.

I currently have an X-E4 camera with an XF27mm 2.8 which forces me to use incredibly high ISO and slow shutter speed.

I'm not 100% sure if I need autofocus, but for sure it would be nice feature to have (but only if it's super fast, otherwise I wouldn't use it anyway for this specific use case).

These are the lenses I was looking at:

Fuji XF 56mm f/1.2 - looks perfect, but I'm not ready to spend 1000€ on a lens at the moment;

Fuji XF 50m f/2.0 - everybody praises its quality and I love Fuji prime lenses, but i'm not sure it would be enough of an improvement from my XF 27mm f/2.8 in terms of light I can get in;

Viltrox 56mm f/1.4 - this is the one i'm currently thinking about buying. It seems to me that for 1/3 of the price, it doesn't lose too much compared to the Fuji XF 56mm;

Samyang 50mm f/1.2 - no autofocus (which I still don't know if it's a big minus or not), also the image quality I saw from a few reviews in Youtube didn't really convince me, but I read great things about this on the forum.

What do you guys think?

Thank you!

PS: also, as I don't have a portrait lens, I would also like to use whatever I'm going to buy as a portrait lens too.