REVIEW: Fujifilm X-T1 at High Speed
The 'Desi Braveheart' Dancers - image shot at 3200 ISO Last weekend we visited the Edinburgh Mela, an international music, dance and arts festival celebrating its 20th year. There were three stages where musicians and dances from all over the world came to perform and while the stages were lit, the lighting was going to be a challenge for the X-T1 with the 55-200mm f3.5/4.8 telephoto that I was going to have to use to get some close up shots of the artists. I did take the 35mm f1.4, which would've given me a 3.5 stop advantage over the f4.8 at the 200mm end of the zoom but I wasn't able to get close enough to the stage to use the shorter lens. Of course the 55-200mm has Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) but this only helps if the subject is static or slow moving. I've handheld a shot of the Eiffel Tower at night using 1/8s with this lens and got a perfectly sharp image, but 1/8s is no good with dancers as they will appear blurred even with OIS enabled...