I’ve been back in the studio teaching lighting and also doing the odd shoot myself, so the XT-1 has been having a good workout. The only thing I’ve found is that heavily backlit images can make it struggle if I’m quite far away. Close up and it is not an issue. For these times I’ve got to get better at using the excellent manual focus system. Image quality has been amazing, I don’t need to sharpen these images at all and they generally require way less post processing than my D800 files did.
Here are some sample images anyhow. These are not standard studio portraits of course, I wanted to show that the XT-1 is just fine for the more creative side ( I’ve blown the highlights on one shot on purpose and used one of the advanced filters in camera for the blurry effect top and bottom).
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