highdesertmesa wrote:
I like the top dials of the XT5, though it is the same resolution as the X100VI. My shots over the years do favor telephoto, so that might be a good idea – XT5 with a pancake lens over the 100VI.
Eh, I had a momentary brain freeze and forgot tlhat the X100vi is also 40MP.
A few years back I did a little informal surgery of some west coast landscape photographers and their most used landscape lens on full frame was actually a 70-200mm zoom. The widest FF lens I use is a 16-35, but I’d say that I use if for less than 5% of my photography. I get a lot of use ot of a 100-400 for landscape.
The XT5 with the pancake is a bit larger than the X100vi. But it does let me choose my ideal/most appropriate lens and still have a small camera/lens package and retain the flexibility to use other lenses when necessary.
Even though my most used (by far) configuration with that camera is to just put the 27mm f/2.8 on it, when I travel I like to have at least one longer and one shorter lens. (I’m a big fan of the 14mm f/2.8. The 35mm f/1.4 gives me a relatively small f/1.4 lens. I may take on other longer lens, too.)
But sometimes when I’m doing landscape while On a longer hike I just take the Xt5 with lenses like the 16-5he 100-4005, the 50-140, or even the 100-400. (Today I accompany my wife on one of her macro photography shoots at an area garden, and I’ll just stick the 80mm f/2.8 macro on the thing.)
It is the combination of small size and versatility that does it for me.
Mar 25, 2025 at 09:51 AM
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