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Alanu wrote:
While you're analyzing your Fuji gear make a note of how many times you get this indicator ..... !AF
This will tell you if you can rely on your auto focus in low contrast low light situations for wedding applications . This is something you will notice between your Nikon gear and Fuji in low light demanding applications. Pitch dark or low light reception your Nikon will never fail you and be incredibly predictable. Your clients will not know if you miss a money shot during a spontaneous act but you will....... In low light the fuji will slow down in AF and is much more noticeable when your urgently trying to get a shot.
I love my fuji a lot but I also rely on my non Nikon gear ...Canon since I have complete confidence in low light, high iso applications.
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True for me as well. After 3 years of Fuji X for club and event shooting, the one (and really only) area where Fuji falls down for me is lowlight AF, specifically where the subject is backlit or near specular highlights. (Very often the case in stage and event lighting.) I have missed more than a few money shots as a result.
drewmey wrote:
The "demand" threshold is always different for everyone, but I have not noticed much difference between my old Canon 6D focusing in the dark which if I remember had a pretty good center point in terms of acquiring focus in low light. If anything, I am finding it easier because I have so many more focus points placed all over the screen. No need to focus and recompose anymore.
respectfully disagree - not a "demand" threshold unless of course you don't shoot into the light or into high contrast backgrounds. a canon 6D will nail this situation, in my experience. if the light is uniformly dark, then yes fuji AF is comparable. but i don't see uniform darkness at clubs, events, and stages. (ok, maybe that is my "demand" - i relent.)
memoria wrote:
This is what worries me. I've been thinking about a pair of X-T2's for a long time, since I do full-day weddings and my FF Canons are getting heavier and heavier - no, wait...I'm getting older and older :-)
Anyhoo... so how do you define low-light... a normal wedding reception (think indoors, maybe candles)?
Would it handle the dance-floor later on? Or just hunt?
To bad if the AF will fail. I'm thinking a pair of Fujis would be great for weddings. Small and light enough to carry around for 14-16 hours, good lens-lineup and the hard to beat Fuji-colors on top of that....Show more →
as i mention above, where the xt1 and xt2 AF fail me is not uniform but mixed contrast low light. The more extreme the contrast, the worse the performance. i love the light weight, the lenses, the colors, the haptics ... don't get me wrong. just calling attention to the deficit, because it is frustrating to have 3 minutes to cover a performer's cut and lose precious moments to focus misses.
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