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Hi all, I've been shooting stop-motion wedding films alongside my stills photography for three years now, and while I switched to Fuji for my stills last year, I've been still using Canon cameras for my stop-motion films. This was mainly due to concerns about battery life, responsiveness, manual focus etc.
 
I've now become very comfortable with the X-T1 and worked out how best to set up the cameras to achieve the results I need for my films, and have started shooting exclusively Fuji. Here's the first that's 100% X-T1 - we shoot approx 4500 RAW files for the film, of which about 1600 make the final cut. add to that another 1500-1800 stills and it's a 170GB day!
 
Anyway, if you want to see just what can be achieved with Fuji gear, check this out!
 

I finally realized that the X-T1 had an interval shooting timer built in so yesterday I went out and made a few clips - processed in Bridge/Photoshop.  I'm by no means a seasoned timelapser - really just have messed around in the past and done short clips as an add on to jobs here and there.
 
Camera had no problem with 2sec. interval raw capture - never hiccuped using a 95MB/s Sandisk card.  I switched over to jpeg (Chrome) after the first clip to save myself disk space and time on the computer.  
 
In the past I've always used manual lenses for time lapse stuff so I kind of forgot about potential exposure/aperture issues with modern lens designs.
 
23mm did a fine job - very consistent exposures throughout.
 
18-55mm - not so much.  Exposure "flicker" is apparent.  Sure, it can be fixed with software, but that's a step I wouldn't mind avoiding.
 
   
I haven't tried the 14mm or 55-200mm yet (that's it for Fuji glass in my bag for now) but my hypothesis is that having a real aperture ring is beneficial.  In that case, the 14mm would be good, 55-200mm bad.  I'll probably test it out today.  
 
Anyone have experience with some of the other X lenses?