Fuji X-t100 AF vs Nikon D5300's

Hello,

I have just bought a Fuji X-t100, after comprehensively reading about it online. I am a hobbyst street photographer, with interest in portraits and doc-photography.

I had a Nikon D5300. Although it worked fine, I was a little bothered with its colours and its size. Since I strive for the candid shot, it didnt help the buldgy camera making me look like a creep spy lurking around.

I chose the xt100 for its size, price (am Brazilian, and the difference to a X-t20 would be around a thousand brazilian bucks [reais, ahem], which is considerable) colours and overall fuji quality. Also bought a fuji 35mm f2 to go with it.

My question is: having read about its slow AF, how slow is it exactly, comparing to the D5300? Although being into street-ph, I never feel the need to capture fast-moving objects such as moving cars, bikers, and such. I practice a more contemplative kind of photography, if I may say so.

So, in a nutshell: AF-wise, was it a step back?

Thank you all in advance for your contributions!

I had a D5300 years ago in like 2014, don't have XT100, but will say the X E2 is a step back in AF from the Nikon. I like the files and using the Fuji better though.

I've used D5300 on a safari and it tracked lions and zebras at night, the X E2 would def struggle in that kind of condition. It had 39 point AF and same autofocus as it's flagship Crop DSLR of the time, just in a smaller cheapish plastic body with no in body AF motor.

Note I also had the small Canon SL1... this was also back when I couldn't afford Fuji's lenses, but prices are way down for Fuji with many more options.

For a camera, Fuji is for sure the better experience IMO to either of those smallish Canikon DSLRs.

For street with the 35 f2, why not just prefocus? That lens is pretty snappy anyway I'm told.

Welcome to shooting Fuji..

57even wrote:

D Longhi wrote:

Hello,

I have just bought a Fuji X-t100, after comprehensively reading about it online. I am a hobbyst street photographer, with interest in portraits and doc-photography.

I had a Nikon D5300. Although it worked fine, I was a little bothered with its colours and its size. Since I strive for the candid shot, it didnt help the buldgy camera making me look like a creep spy lurking around.

I chose the xt100 for its size, price (am Brazilian, and the difference to a X-t20 would be around a thousand brazilian bucks [reais, ahem], which is considerable) colours and overall fuji quality. Also bought a fuji 35mm f2 to go with it.

My question is: having read about its slow AF, how slow is it exactly, comparing to the D5300? Although being into street-ph, I never feel the need to capture fast-moving objects such as moving cars, bikers, and such. I practice a more contemplative kind of photography, if I may say so.

So, in a nutshell: AF-wise, was it a step back?

Thank you all in advance for your contributions!

It will easily cope with anything you find on the street. May not be as good as some DSLRs for sport, but it has the sensor from the XT2, so it should not be that bad.

Moreover, it will focus more accurately than any DSLR across all its focus points, and no focus tuning is ever required.

I notice folks have mentioned XE2 and XA2. The X-T100 has a later gen sensor. I can shoot sport just fine with my Xpro2.

AF speed depends a lot on the processor, and the X-T100 processor is not the one on the X-T2, X-T20 or X-Pro2. Its definitly not a camera for action. In AF-S, quick enough.

57even wrote:

D Longhi wrote:

Hello,

I have just bought a Fuji X-t100, after comprehensively reading about it online. I am a hobbyst street photographer, with interest in portraits and doc-photography.

I had a Nikon D5300. Although it worked fine, I was a little bothered with its colours and its size. Since I strive for the candid shot, it didnt help the buldgy camera making me look like a creep spy lurking around.

I chose the xt100 for its size, price (am Brazilian, and the difference to a X-t20 would be around a thousand brazilian bucks [reais, ahem], which is considerable) colours and overall fuji quality. Also bought a fuji 35mm f2 to go with it.

My question is: having read about its slow AF, how slow is it exactly, comparing to the D5300? Although being into street-ph, I never feel the need to capture fast-moving objects such as moving cars, bikers, and such. I practice a more contemplative kind of photography, if I may say so.

So, in a nutshell: AF-wise, was it a step back?

Thank you all in advance for your contributions!

It will easily cope with anything you find on the street. May not be as good as some DSLRs for sport, but it has the sensor from the XT2, so it should not be that bad.

Moreover, it will focus more accurately than any DSLR across all its focus points, and no focus tuning is ever required.

I notice folks have mentioned XE2 and XA2. The X-T100 has a later gen sensor. I can shoot sport just fine with my Xpro2.

Neither the XT100 sensor or processor is the same as the XT2 (Adventsam would spit at the idea!)

The sensor is a 24mp Bayer chip with some different properties to anything X-Trans (including a very slow read rate apparently). The processor is an unnamed chip that is a bit of a mystery but certainly considerably slower than the XT2 generation and perhaps even the generation before that.

Threaded wrote:

57even wrote:

D Longhi wrote:

Hello,

I have just bought a Fuji X-t100, after comprehensively reading about it online. I am a hobbyst street photographer, with interest in portraits and doc-photography.

I had a Nikon D5300. Although it worked fine, I was a little bothered with its colours and its size. Since I strive for the candid shot, it didnt help the buldgy camera making me look like a creep spy lurking around.

I chose the xt100 for its size, price (am Brazilian, and the difference to a X-t20 would be around a thousand brazilian bucks [reais, ahem], which is considerable) colours and overall fuji quality. Also bought a fuji 35mm f2 to go with it.

My question is: having read about its slow AF, how slow is it exactly, comparing to the D5300? Although being into street-ph, I never feel the need to capture fast-moving objects such as moving cars, bikers, and such. I practice a more contemplative kind of photography, if I may say so.

So, in a nutshell: AF-wise, was it a step back?

Thank you all in advance for your contributions!

It will easily cope with anything you find on the street. May not be as good as some DSLRs for sport, but it has the sensor from the XT2, so it should not be that bad.

Moreover, it will focus more accurately than any DSLR across all its focus points, and no focus tuning is ever required.

I notice folks have mentioned XE2 and XA2. The X-T100 has a later gen sensor. I can shoot sport just fine with my Xpro2.

Neither the XT100 sensor or processor is the same as the XT2 (Adventsam would spit at the idea!)

The sensor is a 24mp Bayer chip with some different properties to anything X-Trans (including a very slow read rate apparently). The processor is an unnamed chip that is a bit of a mystery but certainly considerably slower than the XT2 generation and perhaps even the generation before that.

Whatever the X-T100 has under the hood it's slightly faster than my X-E2.  IQ is several leaps ahead of the old X-Trans IMO.

Sal

Set it to high-performance mode and just toss another battery in your pocket.

57even wrote:

Rmcp20 wrote:

57even wrote:

D Longhi wrote:

Hello,

I have just bought a Fuji X-t100, after comprehensively reading about it online. I am a hobbyst street photographer, with interest in portraits and doc-photography.

I had a Nikon D5300. Although it worked fine, I was a little bothered with its colours and its size. Since I strive for the candid shot, it didnt help the buldgy camera making me look like a creep spy lurking around.

I chose the xt100 for its size, price (am Brazilian, and the difference to a X-t20 would be around a thousand brazilian bucks [reais, ahem], which is considerable) colours and overall fuji quality. Also bought a fuji 35mm f2 to go with it.

My question is: having read about its slow AF, how slow is it exactly, comparing to the D5300? Although being into street-ph, I never feel the need to capture fast-moving objects such as moving cars, bikers, and such. I practice a more contemplative kind of photography, if I may say so.

So, in a nutshell: AF-wise, was it a step back?

Thank you all in advance for your contributions!

It will easily cope with anything you find on the street. May not be as good as some DSLRs for sport, but it has the sensor from the XT2, so it should not be that bad.

Moreover, it will focus more accurately than any DSLR across all its focus points, and no focus tuning is ever required.

I notice folks have mentioned XE2 and XA2. The X-T100 has a later gen sensor. I can shoot sport just fine with my Xpro2.

AF speed depends a lot on the processor, and the X-T100 processor is not the one on the X-T2, X-T20 or X-Pro2. Its definitly not a camera for action. In AF-S, quick enough.

True, but is has on-sensor PDAF points, so it is a lot better than an XE2 at capturing single frames of moving subjects.

Without getting into the whole is-it-better-or-not-than-an-XE2 argument, the XE2 also has on-sensor PDAF points.

As mentioned previously neither the sensor or processor in the XT100 are directly comparable with any previous X-Trans camera, for better or worse.