The Fujinon Red Badge XF50-140mm / X-T4 Combination
The Fuji X-T4 and Fujinon Lenses continue to wow me at every turn and in this case I want to discuss the Fujinon 50-140 f2.8 lens that I use to shoot Pro and Semi-Pro hockey in today’s arenas. I have been shooting hockey since the late 1980’s when the arenas had some of the poorest lighting known to man. Today, these arenas are much brighter and for a photographer this means that we can use lower ISO settings than in the past and this translates into our images having less digital noise to deal with. In the image examples presented here I used an ISO of 3200 at 1/1000 sec @f5. Yes, I could have shot at f2.8 and probably and ISO of around 2500 or lower but at f2.8 the depth of field is not too great. Anyways, let’s get back to why I am “wowed” by this Fuji camera setup … well, why don’t I just let the images do the talking for me? Before that, I just want to explain my shooting vantage point or lack thereof at this particular arena. A lot of arenas have “photographer portals” cutout of ...