{"id":12919,"date":"2015-10-20T01:27:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=12919"},"modified":"2015-10-20T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T14:25:04","slug":"reading-northerns-bridge-train-excursion-at-lake-hauto-pennsylvania-october-17-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/reading-northerns-bridge-train-excursion-at-lake-hauto-pennsylvania-october-17-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading & Northern\u2019s Bridge Train Excursion at Lake Hauto, Pennsylvania\u2014October 17, 2015."},"content":{"rendered":"

Excursion trains are a perfect opportunity to test photographic equipment. I\u2019m always looking for new glass. It\u2019s not that cash is burning holes in my wallet, but every lens offers new ways of making photographs, and I\u2019m curious to know what each is capable of.<\/p>\n

Sunday, I had the loan of a Fujinon XF16-55mm f2.8 zoom. I already have a 18-135mm Fujinon zoom for my X-T1, so I wanted to know what could this lens offer\u00a0me.<\/p>\n

First of all it has a slightly wider field of view. More importantly, it\u2019s faster (f2.8 across the range instead of f4-5.6) and the aperture control is with a conventional ring on the lens with traditional f stop markings.<\/p>\n

I found the lens easy to use, quick to focus, and very sharp. On the downside, it is heavier and larger than my existing zoom. Also, from the moment I attached it to the camera I wanted it!<\/p>\n

Here are two photos exposed hand-held with the zoom. I\u2019d photographed the same train at this exact location on the previous day using my Canon EOS 3 and Provia slide film.<\/p>\n

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Exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1 with Fujinon XF16-55mm f2.8 zoom set at ISO 200 f5.6 1\/500 at 18.7mm. (In otherwords, I could have used my existing 18-135mm lens for this same view)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Exposed<\/a>
Exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1 with Fujinon XF16-55mm f2.8 zoom set at ISO 200 f5.0 1\/500 at 55mm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Excursion trains are a perfect opportunity to test photographic equipment. I\u2019m always looking for new glass. It\u2019s not that cash is burning holes in my wallet, but every lens offers new ways of making photographs, and I\u2019m curious to know what each is capable of. Sunday, I had the loan of a Fujinon XF16-55mm f2.8 … Continue reading Reading & Northern\u2019s Bridge Train Excursion at Lake Hauto, Pennsylvania\u2014October 17, 2015.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3020,3019,2717,2488],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RN_2553_GP39RN_w_Bridge_Train_Hauto_DSCF4780.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3mn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12922,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions\/12922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}