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Sounds interesting. Would love one as a holiday camera as I can't be bothered dragging the dslr kit along with me but it's a little out of my price range at the moment. Lol. Will just have to settle for my p&s till the bank balance improves. Can't believe youre actually going to sell kit, JK.
As for the high ISO...I'm not sure why so many people wax lyrical about the high ISO capabilities of the latest cameras. Yes, you can take the photos but at iso6400 the quality is pretty bad. I found this out at the weekend when I was shooting a birthday party for a client and my flash decided not to work which forced me to use the pop up and what ambient light there was at iso6400. I really needed to go higher than that but couldn't as I could see how bad the noise was. The photos were useable but only just and only after a lot of work in ps. Argh!When I was able to use iso3200 the quality was much better but don't think I'd want to go higher than that.
If you are shooting under indoor candescent light you will find that noise is much more evident than shooting outdoor in equivalent darkness at the same ISO. There is probably some scientific reason for this but it appears to me that there is more colour breakup of the red end of the spectrum evident in darker areas of the image, that seem to amplify the graininess.
Hey Judith...if JK is right about the XT2 performance improvement I will have an XT1 plus 18-135 lens going very soon.
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Eric