Moving from Canon to X-t3--lens suggestions for Fuji

buckeyevet wrote:

GreatOceanSoftware wrote:

If you post some samples, we could help diagnose the lens. As for the body, I believe the camera also has an internal battery that hasn’t charged, or isn’t accepting a charge. This happens to my bodies when I don’t use them for a long time.

I did read that on the forums the first time it factory reset which was the first day I got it. I assumed the internal battery was simply not charged enough. It did it a second time when I charged the battery outside the camera overnight.

Here are 2 of the best images. I don't have my metadata accessible on my phone to add at the moment. These are uncropped and I did minimal PP (slight tweak in color balance and highlights for dog picture, slight tweak of contrast in mermaid). They were both then converted from RAW to JPEG at 100 setting. All done in Capture One (the free version that came with the camera. I used LR 6 exclusively with my Canon gear, but understand LR6 doesn't play well with Fuji Xtrans).

Single focus point was the mermaid's face

Single focus point was my dog's left eye. She wasn't moving.

I have bought once a defect Fujifilm lens that i sent back. All other 5 lenses have been sharp and OK , especially my first lens 18-55 (now some 7 years old)

Your photo of your dog has motion blur ( OIS  did not stabilise enough 1/3 sec speed = the camera was moving)

The first photo looks just strangely soft - partially because f22 ... all lenses are soft at f 22

Anyway , it is possible that you really have a bad lens - you should make a better test before sending it back.  Cameras are not "soft" or unsharp.  When AF does not work perfectly something will be in focus anyways - take a good photo of a room or a suitable city/landscape photo. Your tests do not tell really very much.

A good recipe for a test shot is ISO 200, f 5,6 , camera on a tripod or enough light to get shorter shutter speed like 1/120 .  And take a photo of something to evaluate sharpness  seriously - my personal favourite is our big bookshelf (filled with book from corner to corner ) - easy to see if the smaller text is also sharp...