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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Consolidate from m43/FF to Fuji? Best of both worlds? | |
TheEmrys wrote:
I find aps-c to be the best compromise of all. I do portraiture for money, landscape for fun, and aps-c does quite well for this. However, I also thoroughly enjoy wildlife photography as well. My Sony FF kit worked quite well, except for the wildlife (and probably my children's sports, when that day comes). APS-C is perfect for this. And since Fuji is the only aps-c maker who understands making aps-c lenses into FF equivalents, it was an easy choice.
If you don't need the reach of aps-c, Fuji may not be right for you. If you don't like the D700, I would seriously look at the D750. It is a great body, and awfully small for a FF DSLR. Another option would be Sony's FF E mount. However, the lenses are big, near perfect, and expensive. Two of those things are great.
Have you considered the new D500 and some smaller, nice Nikon primes? It is amazing how small some of the 80's-90's full frame lenses are. For me, I am greatly tempted by the new a99II. I could put together a 20/2.8, 35/2, 50/1.4, and 100/2 kit for under $1500. All the lenses are tiny, using mostly 49mm or 55mm filters (the 20 is a 72mm). Then the body is biggish, but the lenses are smaller than what I use on my Fuji. However, with older lenses, often enough it means having to deal with some CA, less sharp corners, and older screw drive lenses.
You could put together a 23/2, 35/2, and the 90/2 to give you a very nice prime kit. But you are giving up all stabilization, if that is important to you. If you can add in a 16/1.4, but that is going to be expensive....Show more →
Thanks for the input. I haven't considered a D750 or D500, primarily because the overall bulk would still be there and it would set me back about $2k just for the body alone. If I went with Fuji and say, an XT1 or X-E2, I could get a competent setup for about the same cost.
The other thing is, if I went for it, I'd want to have similar DoF isolation on the wide end that I could get with the D700 and say, one of the 1.8 primes. So to me that means either the 16mm 1.4 or the 23mm 1.4. The 18/23/35mm f/2 would all be very close DoF-wise to what I can already get in m43 with the 15mm 1.7 or the 25mm 1.4.
Any thoughts on which of the 1.4 primes would be a good one to start with?
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