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been more city ports and fewer beach islands
it may have been a different story. I didn’t feel
like I was compromising much in quality with
this lens and I gained a lot in convenience.
The 16mm f/1.4 came next. I like the
combination of in-your-face perspective and
shallow depth of field that you can get from
shooting at close range with the lens wide
open. Not far behind was the 23mm, and then
the 55-200mm lens. The telezoom proved
very useful outside but it struggled to find focus
in some of the low-light situations on board,
though that could have been the way I set up
the AF. Finally I used the little 35mm f/2 the
least. Not that there was anything wrong with
it, but with wider-aperture alternatives to hand
there seemed less reason to use it.
With a gun to my head and forced to choose
just three of them, I’d probably have to go for
the gorgeous 16mm f/1.4 and 56mm f/1.2
primes, plus the 18-55mm f/2.8-4 for
whencircumstancescallfora zoom.
‘The X-T3 is so good even at ISO 6400 that I never had to
worry about noise. In Acros mode it resembles film grain’
Taken from above my head with the screen tilted downwards Fujinon XF16mm F1.4 R WR, 1/60sec at f/5.6, ISO 2500
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