I collected my XT2 last Friday and finally got a chance to try it out at a wartime weekend locally.
Alas only the option to try AFS but so far very pleased and the rendition does just seem a little better than from my XPro2 but hardly noticeable.
I got the grip with it and the camera and grip combined are smaller and lighter than my D810 body I traded in.............my shoulders and neck will thank me after a long day of shooting!
Yes, that is the routine. It is great for using zone-focus when you are shooting street or action. Given enough light, stop the lens down to get a reasonable depth of field, use the button to focus on some object in the middle of the zone and then go ahead and shoot. The advantage is that there is no lag while the lens is focusing.
When the f/2.4 60mm came on the market, many people in forums declared it was only useful for static subject matter. Any subject movement at all and it was a complete failure. I expect a lot of people actually believed this and passed up a superb optic. They were too inexperienced to realize that a macro lens has a vast focusing range and a bit more anticipation is needed while it seeks focus. However, it also works great with zone focusing.
A couple of years ago, I found myself as a houseguest in a far northern town. The son of the family played hockey in a Peewee league (10-11-year-olds), and we all trooped down to the local skating rink to watch him play. Upon arriving, I focused on the goal and did a test shot at f/2.4. The boards opposite my position were somewhat out of focus. Another test at f/4.0 and they were sharp. The foreground was sharp up to the point the players over-ran the frame. The OVF showed a considerable area outside the frame, which made the X-Pro1 remarkably good for covering the sport. One could instantly shift the frame to cover developing action just outside.
The results were superb. The contrast was low, so I was able to underexpose by a stop, giving me a shutter speed of 1/1000th without any loss of shadow detail. Thus set, I was able to ignore camera operation and nail peak of action after peak of action. Not one single frame was culled because of softness. See:
http://larry-bolch.com/ephemeral/hockey/
The same technique works equally well when shooting candid on the street or when pursuing a ballistic toddler. An added bonus is that most lenses are at their peak of sharpness between f/4.0 and f/8.0. While f/11 may show a bit of fall-off due to diffraction in the optical lab, it will not be noticed in real-world photography.
Nice pictures. And again thank you for your comments.
I rented a 50-140 lens this weekend. It is a really great lens but big. I tried different things with this lens.
I used it to photograph my son during football with the 50-140 with the extender 1.4. I tried it for studio portrait and my conclusion with this is that my 18-55 had the same result as the 50-140.
A great lens and you get used to it's size. But for the things I'll use it for I think the 55-200 zoom is good enough for me.
Bill Evans reacted to Enzio in Macro with Fuji X