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Steve, it is true that you can get down to a pretty small kit with primes and the Sony body. One photographer I shoot with from time to time uses a A7rII with a 35mm f/1.4 prime for a lot of her work, and she likes this setup a lot.
At least for folks who might be considering a move from Fujifilm to Sony, you would likely want to consider a kit that used a slightly different configuration of lenses than those you selected.
While I understand that some hold that smaller maximum aperture lenses on FF are equivalent to larger aperture lenses on 1.5x crop, most (though admittedly not all) photographers who like those f/1.4 and f/1.2 lenses on Fujifilm are probably not going to want to end up with Sony system lenses with smaller maximum apertures. Or if they are happy with smaller maximum apertures on either system, you might lighten up the comparison Fujifilm system a bit by moving away from at least some of the rather large and heavy Fujifilm f/1.4 and f/1.2 lenses, perhaps as follows:
XPro2 (495g) or XT2 (507g) or possibly XE3(337g)
14mm f/2.8 — 235g
23mm f/2 - 170g
35mm f/2 - 170g
50mm f/2 - 200g
Full system weight ranges from 1112g to 1282g
With the Sony A7rII at 625g, the total for your suggested system is 1637g
Of course, if you move away from that f/2.8 35mm lens, and shift your f/1.8 lenses toward the aperture ranges you used for Fujifilm in your original comparison, that will change things as well.
Using your system and this lighter Fujifilm alternative that I described, pluses and minuses might play out like this...
Sony pluses:
- larger FF sensor area
- higher sensor resolution
- perhaps a stop greater sensitivity in low light?
Fujifilm pluses
- dedicated knobs for controlling things like aperture, shutter speed, EC, and more
- (OVF option on the XPro2)
- lighter system weight and smaller size
(For folks who may know less about this than Steve, both the Sony and Fujifilm cameras use Sony sensors.)
For certain things, such as tripod-based work, the potential image quality advantages of the 42MP full frame system will be a plus for folks making very large prints. For folks working fast and light and doing things like street photography, that advantage diminishes and the greater direct manual control along with smaller/size weight may be more attractive.
In any case, we have a couple of excellent options here, either of which might be preferred by various photographers. As I wrote earlier, I do night street photography side-by-side with one respected colleague who uses Sony as I use Fujifilm. We even exhibit work side-by-side, and we love one another's photography.
My personal Fujifilm setup for street, travel, and night street photography uses:
XPro2
14mm f/2.8
23mm f/1.4 (big!)
35mm f/2
(sometimes I toss my 60mm f/2.4 macro in the bag.)
Dan
Steve Spencer wrote:
Actually there are a number of Sony lenses that are good matches for Fuji lenses in size, performance, and price. In fact you can put together this nice Sony kit:
Zeiss Batis 25 f/2; weight 335g, typical used price $900
Sony/Zeiss 35 f/2.8; weight 120g, typical used price $425
Sony FE 50 f/1.8; weight 186g, typical used price $200
Sony FE 85 f/1.8; weight 371g, typical used price $550
total weight: 1,012g total price: $2,075
That kit is quite similar to this Fuji kit:
Fuji X 16 f/1.4; weight 375g, typical used price $850
Fuji X 23 f/2; weight 180g, typical used price $375
Fuji X 35 f/1.4; weight 187g, typical used price $400
Fuji X 56 f/1.2; weight 405g, typical used price $750
total weight: 1,174g total price: $2,375
Sure if you buy the f/1.4 FF 35mm lenses they are big and expensive, but Fuji doesn't have any lenses that are comparable in terms of depth of field of such lenses. If you look at lenses with similar capabilities, then you can see that the Sony lenses are bigger or more expensive. They are comparable not just in capabilities, but in size and price as well....Show more →
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