Why You Should Change Your Main Street Photography Lens
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- In this week's video, we talk about why you should rotate or shuffle your main street photography lens, It gives you room for exploring and growing as a photographer, learning new things and improving your craft as well.
Stamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Hi!
01:26 - The Fujinon 35mm F2 Lens
02:15 - Learn By Doing... One Lens At A Time
03:47 - Adapting Yourself To A New Focal Length
05:21 - Conclusion
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always top your videos, very informative and knowledgeable, it helps me a lot in my evolution as a photographer
Happy to help! I hope these are helpful or at least entertaining! Thanks for watching and for sharing a kind comment as well! I appreciate it and Happy new year! 🙌🏼✨
I have been using M/F vintage lenses , it is more enjoyable than auto focus & helps with camera steadying skills .
Sounds fun! I'm curious about what lenses are you using? I think a fully manual setup would be fun, using only the Optical viewfinder and manual lenses, I'll keep it in mind for sure!
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts as well! ✨🙌🏼 And happy Holidays! 🎄
@@Jorge-Perez I have quite a few old film camera lenses , some are easier that others to nail focus with peaking . This week I've been using a medium format lens ,a Volna 80mm f2.8 ,also a Tamron 35-70mm bbar zoom , My all time favourite manual focus lens is a Carl Ziess Jena Flektogon 35mm f2.4 . Happy Holidays to you too :-)
Great video on a topic I never really hear about 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hope it was useful or entertaining! Thanks for watching and for taking the time to share your thoughts, man. Happy holidays 🎄 and cheers! 😁
Great job Jorge…as always. Merry Christmas 🎄
I hope it was helpful! Thanks for watching and sharing a comment, Stathis. I appreciate it. Happy Holidays! 🎄✨
Тебя очень приятно смотреть. Спасибо за все, что ты делаешь. Желаю тебе много добрых и преданных подписчиков.
Thank you for your kind words, friend! (I used google translate lol)
I hope the video was helpful or at least entertaining, thanks for watching and for taking the time to share a comment as well! Cheers 😁🙏🏼
Another great and sensible video. I also stick with these two lenses for my street photography, using the 23 about 80% of the time Looking forward to hearing how you like using the 35mm over the next few months. Happy Holidays!
Thanks for sharing John! The 23mm was my one and only lens for many years now, So I know exactly what you mean. I'm excited to give the 35mm a real try, and see how I adapt it to my own style and not lose my style just because the lens is different.
Thank you very much for watching and taking the time to share a comment as well! I really appreciate it 🙏🏼✨ and happy holidays! 🎄
True!
Great video! Liked and Subbed 😀
I have my own channel and this just makes me want to go and make stuff!
Thanks for your kind words, Chris! 🙌🏼 The goal is to help and inspire others, so maybe I'm not too far off from it 😂
At the end of the day, our experiences and how we feel about what we do is what matters! You have a great channel with really useful and great content, keep up the amazing work! Thanks for watching and for taking the time to share your thoughts as well! I really appreciate it 🙏🏼✨
@@Jorge-Perez You are super welcome! Keep up the awesome work buddy!
Really enjoy your videos Jorge, very helpful !!!! I always carry with me the Fuji X100, love it for people pictures, really natural skin colors !!! Fill flash always delivers the right amount of light when used, and I mean ALWAYS !!!!! It is just incredible !!!!!...... But, I also carry a Nikon D5600 with a Nikon 18-300 mm lens and a small Nikon SB 400 flash....Super fast DSLR, because many times, you have to be quick to capture the moment, my Fuji is too slow.....I use the DSLR most of the time, very convenient lens, nice results !!!! I don't mind the weight, It's not that much anyway 😄
Interesting video as it caused me to think a bit about my shoots -- I find that I have two moods (maybe 3) wherein one is at full zoom (300mm) shooting birds and the other is wide (~16ish) while looking at the world in a fish-eye POV. I can't do both on the same day. Maybe not even the same week or month. The 3rd mood is 50mm walk about (aka street; but I don't call my candid pics street as I consider it an insult to street photographers).
Great video. The 50mm focal length is perhaps less versatile than the 35mm but it is wonderful for candid portraits of friends and family. I've been using the Minolta Rokkor 50mm 1.7 on a Sony a7 and it produces magical results.
It really is! I'm wondering if I can adapt it to my street photography style, I don't want to suddenly change my style and only do portraits now, but that is part of the exploration process and discovery as well!
How's the Sony family treating you? Curious to hear your thoughts!
Thanks for watching Dastan! and for taking the time to share a comment as well! I really appreciate it 🙏🏼✨ and happy holidays! 🎄
@@Jorge-Perez Merry Christmas to you too Jorge! Thanks for the excellent content.
I really look forward to seeing your results and hearing about your thoughts on the narrower field of view.
I enjoy the Sony experience immensely for the simple reason that it opened the door of vintage lenses, which has been a joy. Some real (cheap) gems out there.
That's funny, because I did the exact same thing during the past month, but backwards.
As fas I can remember, my favourite focal length always have been 50mm equiv, and what ever the thing I'm shooting : landscapes, people, street etc, 50mm was my go to.
But recently, I had the feeling that the bulkness of my X-T1 was kind or a limiter to what I could do in the streets of my city, so I looked up for a smaller camera, ended up buying an X100. And at first, the 35mm equiv wasn't really suiting me, but as time passed I found myself reaching more and more for my 35 rather than my 50. I started using my 7artisans 25mm more and more on my X-T1, and enjoying doing it while it basically stayed on a shelf for the most part since I got it.
In my camera bag I used to carry a lot of lenses (25, 35, 50 and a zoom lens) only to use the 35 and a bit of the zoom on the long end. I recently go an 85mm and completely ditched the zoom lens for most of the things I do.
35mm (50 equiv) is still my prefered focal length, but opening up to other ones is a really good exercise that allows you to free yourself from the boundaries that you put on yourself by using a single lens. Sure, it will make you an expert of the focal lenght in question, but you'll be clueless when you need to switch up lenses.
I tried to get the 85 1.8 (130mm equiv) out (and only that!) the other day, and that was definetly challenging but very fun ! Long focal lenght are often overlooked for street
(also, as a quick note, the XC 35mm has the exact same optical formula as the XF version, it just lacks the aperture ring and weather sealing, which in the end is a tradeof I'm willing to make considering it's half the price. Definetly the lens I'd recommend to someone learning photograhy !)
Very interesting to hear your thoughts! ✨ I think that starting my photography journey with the X100 series solidified the 23mm (35mm equivalent) as my main lens and how I sort of envision my photographs.
I'm really excited to test the 35mm (50mm equivalent) but at the same time, I don't want the lens to dictate the type of photographs that I create. I don't want to suddenly only take portraits and things like that. But I guess that's what the exploration phase is for, taking our time to try things and explore.
How's the X100 treating you so far? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts!
Thank you very much for watching Matthieu, and for taking the time to share your thoughts as well! I appreciate it 🙏🏼✨ and happy holidays! 🎄
@@Jorge-Perez the X100 is definetly slow, but not as slow as I was expecting it to be.
Small issue though, when I use the EVF or the back screen I can't have a live exposure view of what I'm shooting like I was used to on the X-T1. The image stays the same what ever the shutter speed or aperture. Only way to have "live exposure" is to be in aperture priority and change it with the exposure comp dial. Also, the camera seems to not be able to focus as close if you use the OVF compared to the EVF.
Other than that, it works wonderfully ! It really is a breeze to have a camera small enough to fit in your jacket pocket without drawing too much attention, thing the X-T1 could never do and it ended up staying in my backpack most of the time I took it with me.
Also, if I'm being honest, photographers have "categorized" focal length in certain categories like "this is a portrait lens" or "this is a landscape lens", ultimately pushing people that don't know any better towards certain lenses to do certain things. I do not agree with that at all, every lens is capable of doing almost everything, it just depends on the conditions you're shooting in, and you own skill as a photographer. I've taken amazing landscape shots with an 85mm lens, as well as I've done portraits I'm really proud of with a 25mm lens. In the end that's just a matter of habits and preferences, and I certainly won't stop using a lens in a particular setting because someone told me that "this lens is not made for that". Every lens is made for everything, you just have to learn how to use it ! :D (there is exceptions, please to not use a 5000mm mirror lens to capture a landscape, and definelty don't use a 8mm fisheye lens for portraits !)