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

Apa Macam wrote:

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.

The mermaid photo was shot with with 1/8 sec and the dog photo was taken with 1/3 sec shutter speed. Was it done with handheld? If it was, that explains a lot....

Question 1, why did you used F22 for the mermaid photo?

A virtual photography class i took last year during lockdown said f22 was good when trying to get more of the subject in focus, which was my goal.

Question 2, why did you fix your iso at 400 for both photo?

Same photography class that taught me the above, also said never to shoot above iso 400 to avoid noise, and it was too dim to go lower.

I'm starting to think I should have saved my money on the class and stuck with my old way of doing things.