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favourite focal lengths

  • 25-01-2007 4:05pm
    #1
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,738 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    wot the poll says.

    what focal lengths do you typically work in? (35mm equivalent) 33 votes

    below 28mm
    0% 0 votes
    28mm to 50mm
    21% 7 votes
    55mm to 100mm
    36% 12 votes
    105mm to 200mm
    24% 8 votes
    210mm and up
    18% 6 votes


Comments

  • #2
    stipey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭stipey


    poll?


  • #3
    magicbastarder
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    poll!
    multiple choices allowed.


  • #4
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    You mean not allowed ;)

    50mm for me.

    I want a 70-200 though...

    I've done my time with wide angles.


  • #5
    magicbastarder
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    Fajitas! wrote:
    You mean not allowed ;)
    it must like me, so.


  • #6
    elven
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    Fajitas! wrote:

    I want a 70-200 though...

    I've done my time with wide angles.

    *picks herself up off the floor*

    wow... never thought I'd hear that one!


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  • #7
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Ah never mind magic! Didn't see you had to do it all at the same time!

    Are you happy now Julie? :p


  • #8
    elven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭elven


    Well it may well make for some rather more flattering portraits :p

    Just seems strange - like apple pie without custard - Fajitas without a 30mm...

    Will be interesting to see though. You have been using it less recently come to think of it. Maybe I should try going the other way, instead of getting close in on the details of everything, like a horse with blinkers on... am considering the sigma 24-70mm F2.8 EX DG Macro maybe this year and that's wide enough for me, heh!


  • #9
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,738 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i must post a "how many lenses do you own" thread.
    i've about a dozen, spread across 5 different systems.


  • #10
    elven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭elven


    Aye, that'd be up there with the 'how much is your kit worth' thread, too. I'm proud to say mine is prolly one of the cheapest around :D


  • #11
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    elven wrote:
    Aye, that'd be up there with the 'how much is your kit worth' thread, too. I'm proud to say mine is prolly one of the cheapest around :D

    Ah, But I bet you haven't been buying 2nd hand MF lenses off ebay for the last 6 months! My current favourite is definately my (slightly worn) 24mm AIS lens that I've been enamoured with for the last 3 rolls. ohhh the wide angles. The things it does to peoples faces if they're patient enough to allow you jam it right up against their nose. the horror !


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  • #12
    311
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    Since I got a 18-50 sigma ,it's not been off the camera. I feel sorry for my other lenses now .


  • #13
    mikeanywhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    Fajitas! wrote:
    I want a 70-200 though...

    Awesome news matey, join the club.

    However, I wander what the influence was on this decision, a recent delivery to school perhaps?? ;););) :eek: :D


  • #14
    leinsterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭leinsterman


    mikeanywhere wrote:
    Awesome news matey, join the club.

    However, I wander what the influence was on this decision, a recent delivery to school perhaps?? ;););) :eek: :D

    Yeah but the real dilemma is Sigma EX or L ...F4 or F2.8 ... with or without IS (at an additional cost of €400) ... Fajitas seems to be in the "with 2.8L IS" category .. how about the rest ?

    Personally ... when I got for it, it will be 2.8L ... not 100% sure I will for out for IS yet ... even with the 3 extra stops ... but like I said ... WHEN I go for it ... got to get my 5D and 16-35 first ...

    I can't answer the poll easily (but I'll have a go) because there is no one focal length I favour ... very circumstance dependant ... I suppose I could say I tend to use 12-24 on the 1.6 crop indoors ... 24-70 on the 1.6 crop for portraits ... and 100-400 for sports, wildlife, outdoor .... but even that is pushing it ... as generalisations go ... I voted for everything except 28-50 ... I find it on the boring side ... though I have been known to use it ...


  • #15
    rymus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    go for the IS... you know you want it... it's too handy not to have.

    I've found taht my 70-200 lives on my camera most of the time but does leave now and again to be replaced with a 150 macro and the odd time a 10-20. Picking up a sigma 30 1.4 this afternoon which will live on my 30d throughout most of my trip to Canada next week. But only because I'm too lazy to carry around a backpack full of lenses that I 'might' use...

    On a similar note, would I be mad to place a tightly yet thickly wrapped 70-200 2.8 IS in my checked luggage? Got plenty of t-shirts and a couple of jackets I planned on housing it in (and it is insured).


  • #16
    CraggyIslander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭CraggyIslander


    I've picked them all....... well almost... my 24-85mm only gets taken off for the 100mm macro. Those two cover the first three options :D


  • #17
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    Where's the 600mm option?


  • #18
    leinsterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭leinsterman


    rymus wrote:
    go for the IS... you know you want it... it's too handy not to have.

    I've found taht my 70-200 lives on my camera most of the time but does leave now and again to be replaced with a 150 macro and the odd time a 10-20. Picking up a sigma 30 1.4 this afternoon which will live on my 30d throughout most of my trip to Canada next week. But only because I'm too lazy to carry around a backpack full of lenses that I 'might' use...

    On a similar note, would I be mad to place a tightly yet thickly wrapped 70-200 2.8 IS in my checked luggage? Got plenty of t-shirts and a couple of jackets I planned on housing it in (and it is insured).

    Well in the old days before they started paying check in staff a bonus for making you check in an item that is 1mm over allowable size or 1g over weight this would have been a cert for carry on .... but I had a 100-400 in my checked ruck sack not too long ago ... it is still in working order ... wrap it well and even stuff the lens case with tissue to stop it rattling and you should be fine....


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