{"id":14955,"date":"2014-09-16T12:57:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T21:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/?p=14955"},"modified":"2014-10-06T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:50:04","slug":"shooting-action-with-the-fuji-18-135mm-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/shooting-action-with-the-fuji-18-135mm-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Action with the Fuji 18-135mm lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_DSF8424-2\"<\/a>Summer leaves town\u00a0in a real hurry as soon as\u00a0September hits\u00a0Alaska. As\u00a0much as I hate to see the warm weather and long days depart for the year, fall does mean\u00a0the start of cyclocross season, so that’s a tradeoff I’ll take with excitement.<\/p>\n

During the past couple years, it’s been lots of fun to both race\u00a0in and photograph\u00a0the Arctic Cross series here in Anchorage<\/a>, and I’ve been especially looking forward to this fall because it’s my first season to shoot cyclocross with the\u00a0Fuji X-T1<\/a>\u00a0camera.<\/p>\n

This past week, I shot with only the new XF 18-135mm weather sealed lens,<\/a>\u00a0and while I would have preferred using a faster f\/2.8 telephoto zoom for long shots inside the dark forest, Fuji’s high ISO performance is pretty darn good, so the speed loss is not as big of an issue as it could be. Shooting wide angle makes it even less of an issue. That said, I’m very curious to try out the new XF 50-140mm f\/2.8 lens<\/a> that’s just been announced.<\/p>\n

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Cyclocross is indeed a fast action sport that offers a diverse number of perspectives and compositional opportunities. For that reason, I was very curious about how well the X-T1 and 18-135 lens would do with regards to autofocus performance.<\/p>\n

As with my previous tests using\u00a0the 18-135mm lens<\/a>, I found it to be more than capable enough to acquire and track the bikers.\u00a0The\u00a0very lightweight linear motor that’s built into the 18-135 makes it one of the fastest focusing lenses in the Fuji lineup, so if there was a\u00a0limitation here, it wasn’t AF, it was\u00a0lens speed, as I mentioned above. That said, limitations are a great spark for creativity. You\u00a0may not always have the perfect gear, but you can take what you have and run with it in whatever direction works best.<\/p>\n

All of these were shot as straight JPEGS, and as much as I like the Fuji colors, I really love the black and white film simulations. I think they’re perfect for subjects like this; BW seems to impart a timeless quality, and it certainly has more grit, especially when you crank the ISO way up. (Most of these were shot at ISO 1600 and higher.)\u00a0You can check out more photos from this week’s race here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Summer leaves town\u00a0in a real hurry as soon as\u00a0September hits\u00a0Alaska. As\u00a0much as I hate to see the warm weather and long days depart for the year, fall does mean\u00a0the start of cyclocross season, so that’s a tradeoff I’ll take with excitement. During the past couple years, it’s been lots of fun to both race\u00a0in and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,5],"tags":[14,15,61,288,329,485,343,89,424],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}