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What is your favorite focal length or range? Anonymous
I love 70-200, gives me half body or portraits with awesome perspective and background blur.

Some ground rules:

1. Pick one and only one. Don't be like, oh 10-20 for wide, 24-70 for normal and 70-200 for tele.

You've got to have one that you like working with more than another.

2. Post a related picture with said favorite FL. I'm OP so I'm exempt from that rule.

3. beethy can't post in this thread because we all know he only takes UWA shots.
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>> Anonymous
50mm

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>> Anonymous
Kit lens on the 400D -- 18mm - 55mm
The long end is pretty good for portraits, although obviously doesn't give as much blur as a tele, or the 50/1.8 which would be 2nd place for me.
The wide angle end is good for landscapes/architecture etc.
I would have said some other lens but you'd all know that I'm lying if I said I liked some insanely expensive piece of L glass.
>> Anonymous
>>152376I would have said some other lens but you'd all know that I'm lying if I said I liked some insanely expensive piece of L glass.

No, not really.

/p/ is one of the places you can claim all sort of bullshit and it will work most of the time.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
11-18 from the ones I have but it would be the 70-200 or new 80-200/2.8 with a set of TCs that I would really want to use.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
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50 is by far my favorite. It's just so natural to compose photos at this length, it's how I see things just walking around.

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>> Anonymous
>>152427

but that makes it a 75mm on your camera
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
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>>152428
Compression remains the same regardless. Smaller field of view, but same perspective. I like working with 50mm on full-frame or digital.

I also like 28mm, it's pretty wide, but not too wide. I think I favor 35mm over it slightly, I really need to invest in a nice Nikkor f/2 prime.

My ideal prime kit is probably 24, 35, 50, 85, 180 (just because the 200 f/2 VR is retardedly huge and unwieldy, whereas the 180 is tack sharp and comparatively tiny).
>> Anonymous
>>152433

needs more DOF
>> Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM
If we're talking one focal length then i go with 50mm as well. For the same reasons as heavyweather mentioned.

Main thing is with fixed focals, especially the 50, when i only use that for a while i get use to seeing shots in my head, cause i know the exact distance i need to be far away from.

With Zooms, i'm a bit more vague and i try and zoom in and out to what goes well...

that said... range wise the 17-55 i have offers great range. from 25mm at the wide which is decent enough for landscapes and about 83 at the long which works for portraits and the modelling shots i've done.

I'm not sure how i'd cope with the 24-70 when i move to FX. It just seems too short at 70mm
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>152433
>Compression remains the same regardless. Smaller field of view, but same perspective.
I don't think you're right about that. Perspective depends only on camera position, not focal length. Otherwise, 28mm on a crop sensor would look crazy perspective-wise and it clearly doesn't.
>> Anonymous
28mm on a 35mm body.

i have other lenses but they get no use.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
>>152437
Hmm. I have trouble understanding the physics behind it, but then why do 50mm on film and digital look similar? On digital, it's the same image, just a cut taken from the middle, right? The layering is the same in both, the full frame shot just has more area.
>> Anonymous
>>152448

Think of it like this. Since perspective is only ever a function of subject distance, to fill the frame with a person using a 50mm on APS-C you need to stand further back than if you were to use that same lens on FF. Thus, your perspective is different for the two shots. If you used a lens that crops to the 50mm FOV on the digital camera, you will be standing the same distance from the subject as you would be with the 50mm on FF, and thus your perspective is the same and the shots will look exactly the same, minus the different DOF effects.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>152448
Because in the grand scheme of things, 50mm on a crop sensor isn't that much of a telephoto. So it's not really far enough out there to really compress your perspective that much.

Whip out one of your film cameras and take the same shot with the same framing with your nifty-fifty on both it and your D50. I.e., when you take the film shot, get closer so the framing matches. There will be a bit of a perspective shift between the two, just not so much of a perspective shift as when you're shooting something like a 200mm tele or an ultrawide.

(For a further example... if perspective were the same regardless of crop factor, imagine how crazy the perspective would be with the extremely low focal lengths on P&S cameras)
>> M/A !n21TE7QU8U
>>152459
I would insta-buy the cheapest, lowest zoom-range P&S i could find.
>> angrylittleboy !wrJcGUHncE
28mm on FF
>> Warren !WSxruxpIJs
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I was thinking about this earlier today, actually. For me it always comes back to a fast 50mm. If I had to spend the rest of my life making all of my photographs with one camera and one lens, it would be my Nikon F3P and my 50mm f/1.2 AIS. It just fucking works for me.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
>>152640
I'm so jealous. :(
>> Warren !WSxruxpIJs
>>152642
If it makes you feel better, I bought the combo used at Calumet in Chicago in '04 once I started to claw my way out of a total burnout that I found myself in after finishing college. It got me shooting again.
>> Anonymous
17-55 2.8 then. That easily takes the most pictures when I went through my Flickr tags.
>> Anonymous
50mm F1.8

I love this lens for doing portraits. Fantastic depth of field and great for doing low light night shots.
>> Anonymous
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22mm-50mm (probably down to 20mm, but I don't have a lens wide enough)

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>> noko
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>> Anonymous
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42mm equivalent, however that's gotten on the sensor size I'm working at. So close to the diagonal "true normal" or whatever, it's so easy to visualize and feels more natural to shoot with than a typical 50mm.
>> Anonymous
I want 85 F1.2 :D
>> Anonymous
>>152884
I Want one of those zeiss 50mm f/0.7 that Kubrick used mounted to my nikon.
>> Anonymous
>>152831
fat lens is fat
>> noko
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>>152894
>> Anonymous
>>152895
>>152894
>>152831

How do people shoot with this combo, seriously? It seems too fat to hold, let alone focus if you ever have to do that manually.
>> Anonymous
>>152899
That Sigma is big, but not too heavy, so the whole combo isn't that badly balanced.
As for manual focusing... well, you just avoid it as much as you can. Small viewfinder + f/1.4 lens = 80% chance of missing focus.
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>>152899
It's not too fat, camera is a D40 lol.
>> Anonymous
>>152901
I mean like physically gripping the thing.

>>152902
>with this combo
>> Jesus !1EQ.kCAg9c
>>152902

Are you giving us the bird? That's very improper young lady.
>> Anonymous
>>152908
Not any harder than gripping, say, a Rebel XT with a 50/1.4 attached.
>> Anonymous
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50mm, even though it's actually 75. Great bokeh, you have to come up with creative solutions due to no zoom.

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>> I||ICIT !!mknjFN/v/49
mines definitely a 50mm on a crop so therefore an 85 on FF/film.

r.e the 30mm, i use it on a 30D and while its a bit of a choad, its not exactly hard to use. MF is sweet and holding is nice.
>> Anonymous
>>152962mines definitely a 50mm on a crop so therefore an 85 on FF/film.

lrn2math
>> Anonymous
100mm/150mm. I like to do a lot of single-subject photos where the background is unimportant. Good lens bokeh and sharpness are what I look for. I'm saving up to get a 105 or 135mm prime.
>> fence !!POey2hdozCZ
>>152980

i just picked up a nikkor 135 2.8 for a hundred bucks. from my understanding, it's pretty much the standard price.
>> Anonymous
>>152985
The Minolta lenses I'm looking at cost upwards of $300. I'm thinking about just getting a nice MF prime. I always focus manually anyways, whatever photos I'm taking.