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Warwick

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  1. If I were a news photographer I'd use zooms - what matters there is to get a picture of what's happening even if you can't be in the best position for the most 'artistic' shot. Your picture editor won't be happy if you come back saying 'I only had a wide angle on my camera, so I've come back with this really fun picture of an eccentric man in the crowd, rather than the two politicians shaking hands.' But because I'm an amateur and I like primes, I stick with them. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  2. I think that's the thing about primes, as Nero says. If you're used to zooms you think about using primes like awkward and inferior zooms, carrying lots of lenses with you and changing them all the time. Whereas in reality you have an idea beforehand of what kind of place you're going to, and what sort of pictures you want to come back with, and you tend to pick one lens and stick with it, even if it means missing other potential shots. It's a different way of thinking Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  3. I feel that my photography has improved immeasurably since I switched from zoom lenses to primes. Zooms are great for allowing you to take the best possible picture of whatever you want to capture from wherever you happen to be. You won't miss much if you have a zoom. But primes make you think about what kind of picture will work best with the lens you have, and where you need to be standing in order to get it. Primes sometimes stop you from getting the shots that zooms make easy, and force you to see the scene differently. They make you a more conscious photographer. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  4. Xpro2, XF18mm F2 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  5. It's a very niche, specialist lens. But photographing mainly plants and flowers is a very niche, specialist activity. If you got it you'd probably have much more use for it than the average photographer Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  6. If your intention is to build a kit over time, I'd get the X-T2 first and then get another lens later down the line. There's very little you can't shoot with the 18-55 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  7. Some skateboarding shots - self-portraits taken with the XPro2, 18mm F2 and tripod, using the interval timer Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  8. The 16mm is great - but it is big, and it is expensive. The current 18mm is small, and cheap. This is a picture of my eldest daughter, taken with the 16mm Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  9. One more 18mm pic Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  10. It won't. Modern sensors allow you to take pictures in surprisingly dim light - especially with a wide-aperture lens. If you look further up the page there are some might-time/dim light shots I took with the F2 lenses. It really isn't a problem. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  11. I like the 35, and use it a lot, especially for head-and-shoulders portraits - but I find it too restrictive indoors and in enclosed spaces to have as a do-it-all lens. You can't get enough background in. The 27 is nice too, and small, but the 23 gives you an extra stop of light, an aperture ring and weather resistance. Taken with the 35: Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  12. I had the 18-55. I now have the 18, 23 and 35 f2. With the little F2 lenses I take my camera to more places and use it more often, because it's smaller and less conspicuous. Also, not being able to zoom in on my subject makes me think more about framing and composition. This was taken with the 23 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  13. Ah. I didn't look at the title Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  14. I think you're reading more into it than is there. I don't think 'mafioso' when I see either the man in shades or the man leaning against the window Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  15. I think you're reading more into it than is there. I don't think 'mafioso' when I see either the man in shades or the man leaning against the window Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  16. Some more with the 23mm f2 Taken in natural light: bright sun behind me, grey rainclouds ahead Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  17. Rain stops play: XPro2, XF23mm F2 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  18. Windsor, England. XPro2, XF23mm F2 WR Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  19. The 18mm is massively underrated. I had it twice and sold it twice because I bought into the groupthink that says it's not as good as the other lenses. But I kept coming back to the fact that I've taken some of my favourite pictures with it. I'm now on my third 18mm lens and I'm keeping it - until the mark 2 comes along. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  20. If you want one more lens to go on the X-T1, the new 23mm f2 is good. It's small, weather-resistant and a classic 35mm-equivalent photojournalist focal length. There were photographers in WWII who shot the whole conflict with just a Leica and 35mm lens. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  21. New XF lenses still seem to be coming thick and fast. Latest being the XF50mm f2 WR Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  22. I currently have 18mm f2, 23mm F2 and 35mm f2. I'm pretty happy with them. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  23. Doesn't look it to me- even accounting for the fact that the X100 lens is built around a non interchangeable body, with more elements set closer to the sensor, the XF23mm f2 is a newer design with a different focussing mechanism Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  24. What flaws are these? And in terms of 'most people' being turned off, I think it's now one of their best-selling lenses. Most of the reviews I've read are pretty positive too. I sold my XF23mm f1.4 to buy the F2 version and it's great: smaller, less conspicuous, faster-focussing and weather-resistant. It's on my XPro2 most of the time and I wouldn't be without it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  25. On the beach in Accra, Ghana. XPro2, XF23mm f2 Shot in raw, Velvia simulation applied in Lightroom Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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