dbehrens wrote:
Thanks. I\'ve never shot Fuji but your answer was what I was expecting. This 100-400 lens that has me thinking now may be the time to cash in my Canon wildlife kit and go Fuji. The weight savings is HUGE and coincidentally the X-T1 would shoot identical resolution to my Canon 1D Mk IV, albeit a slightly smaller but newer sensor. Sounds like a worthwhile tradeoff!
Maybe. But as an enthusiastic Fujifilm x-trans camera user for over three years and a Canon photographer, too, allow me to urge some caution about \"cashing in\" one system for the other.
The Fujifilm 100-400mm lens sounds like a winner. As expected by those of us who know about Fujifilm, it sounds like it is well designed and optically first rate. But for wildlife photography, especially if the wildlife is moving a lot, I still much prefer my Canon DSLR system, with its very fast AF and its optical viewfinder.
I know that more recent Fujifilm mirrorless systems have continued the process of improving autofocus and display performance on mirrorless cameras, but they still don\'t equal DSLRs in either of those two areas. While there are things I love about the EVF (the display overlays, the ability to produce a bright viewfinder image in very low light, etc.), there are other things about these systems that still don\'t equal optical viewfinders.
Now you can certainly photograph wildlife with a mirrorless Fujifilm system. We have photographic proof earlier in this thread. But if that is a big thing for you, the best options for that are still generally DSLRs. That may change eventually, but we aren\'t there yet.
I love my Fujifilm system and I\'m about to upgrade it to the X-Pro2. It is my primary camera for street photography (especially night street photography) and travel photography. But not wildlife. Perhaps you want to try what I do — keep the DSLR system for your wildlife work and augment that with a mirrorless system for photography in which you can afford to sacrifice a little bit of speed in order to get small and light gear.
Take care,
Dan
Feb 19, 2016 at 10:02 AM
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