So I shot my second wedding with the XPro2, a few months after the first one. When I shot the first one I was very new to the camera and made a few mistakes in how I set it up. I set NR to -4, which is just too much for me, and I forgot to enable high performance mode. I also hadn’t worked out how to get jpegs writing to the second card. It’s been 3 months and 13000 images since that wedding and I really know this camera well now. I took along a D750 as a security blanket really, thinking I’d use it for the fast bits ( the processional can be quite speedy, the confetti, and most of all the dancing ). After about half an hour of trying to use the D750 I realised two things..
- the XPro-2 is more than capable of everything I need it to do for a wedding, its FAST.
- I’m so used to the Fujis after 3 years that I totally suck at using a DSLR and I was getting way better results with the XPro2 as a result.
So I packed the D750 away and shot the rest of the wedding with the following:
Fuji XPro-2
Fuji XE-2 with firmware 4.0
X100T
The lenses I used were…
16mm 1.4: 30%
35mm f2: 40%
23mm f2 on the X100T: 10%
56mm 1.2 :10%
50-140 2.8 :10%
What surprised me was how little I used the 56mm, which has been a staple of previous weddings. Not sure why, it just didn’t get used that much, I think because the 35mm f2 is so fast, I used that way more. I was also surprised how often I used the 16mm 1.4, that thing is just awesome. I got on average 500 shots per battery. The camera performed flawlessly, no restart issues, no overheating issues, it just did its job and didn’t get in the way. It rained, and that didn’t slow it down ( I wouldn’t have used the D750 in that rain!). Anyway, here are some images…( the dance shots were lit by bouncing a flash off the very high ceiling, it was a Godox 360 so way more powerful than a normal speedlight ).
