How to Choose the Perfect Focal Length for Your Photos
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- In this episode, Dave explains how different focal lengths affect your photography with a focus on Sony E-mount lenses.
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Wow, I never realized what the line through the circle meant on my camera until now.
Yeah it’s very useful when you are doing macro-work.
Dave, very well done. Cheers.
The logical follow up will be a discussion on zoom lenses and how they work with the various points of convergence. Nice explanation, Dave!
For myself, currently I have 4 lenses: 14mm f/1.8, 24-70mm f/2.8 GM, 85mm f/1.8 and the 200-600mm G. I like them all, obviously each for different type subjects. Some days, though, I take my camera (A7R4) and only one lens, trying all sorts of different types of shots. I find it's a good learning exercise as you often find shots--that you normally wouldn't have thought to use that lens for--that come out great, or at least, interesting...
Thanks for always sharing the best content, keep up with the awesome work 👍👌
Thank you so much.
This is why if you are starting out a zoom lens is ideal. Zooms offer a lot of focal distance range to figure out where you sit most of the time so when you are ready to buy a fast prime lens you know which one (or two) best suits the type of photography you do and your own unique style.
There is a reason that so many manufacturers include an 18-55mm range or something like that to get you started. Little wide, little tele, but nothing extreme on either end but you can start to get a feel for what suits you. Good advice.
Actually good explanation for point of convergence 🖐🏼
Appreciate the feedback.
I find myself not usually liking the look of wide angle. I did have a 16-35 but sold, as I never used. I like the compression of telefocal lenses and use the 70-200 whenever possible.
That was a great description of focal length. Thank you.
I love my 105mm /2.8 macro for portraits. I think I might finally retire my old 135mm.
The 85mm lenses I've used never feel like they can focus quite close enough for the shots I want, I have to work some of their shoulders into the shot.
At 200mm or longer, faces start looking too round for my taste.
Thanks for watching, That 105mm range is great for both macro and portraits in one lens however don't give up the 135!. lol...
The focal length and point of convergence makes sense to me when talking about a single element (or lens). What I wonder about it how this is affected when camera lenses have many actual lens elements inside (I have seen lenses with 20 elements!). How do all these elements work together to act as if they are a single one? Is there really a single point of convergence? What is the point of having so many elements? I can see that a few might help with corrections at the edges, but why so many?
Good questions! But not easy questions. We kept to mostly primes for this episode as they tend to be easier to understand when first learning. Primes also generally have fewer optics than zooms however there are some lenses that have incredibly complicated optical formulas requiring a ton of optics. We have ED elements and Aspherical elements and different coatings, etc, etc, etc, all used to give us hopefully a great image that's sharp and free from distortion. Then throw in a zoom mechanism with moving elements and it gets even more complicated. I can see a potential future episode in the works!...Cheers.
Unfortunately, this does not apply to everyone.
I currently use Olympus, Lumix G, Lumix S and I have in the past used Canon APS-C and 35mm, Fujifilm APS-C and Mamiya medium format.
If out talked about angle of view, then you could have covered everyone.
Mostly, I photograph landscapes. I can judge, with some accuracy, the angle of view of the field I wish to cover. If I know the angle of view of my lenses, it takes me moments to choose the best lens for the job, and it does not matter a jot whether I am using an OM-D E-M10 or my Lumix S1R or my medium format camera (ignoring the lack of variety there).
If you understand your gear, you can make a good portrait with an ultrawide lens, even a fisheye lens. I have done both.
Thanks for the comment. We might look at doing a more in-depth episode on field of view, sensor size, etc, that does cover this topic in more detail in the future. For this basic episode we kept it to full frame. Cheers.
Or you can just do what Dave does grabs a Fuji HS20 and just call it a day. LOL