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56 vs 90: Who is more versatile? Discuss.

Started Aug 10, 2018 | Discussions thread
wy2lam Veteran Member • Posts: 3,364
Re: How about this experiment for those with both lenses

stevo23 wrote:

wy2lam wrote:

1. Take a portrait with the 90mm wide open

2. Do not move, just change lens to a 56mm, shoot the same subject wide open. Use the same ISO and shutter speed.

3. Crop the pic taken with the 56mm to look like 90mm.

4. Post and discuss about the 2 pictures.

Theoretically, the pictures would look very similar apart from the number of pixels.

If the loss of pixels and quality is not significant, I'd say the 56 is the more versatile one if you shoot wide.

The 90 allows even further cropping, so if that's your thing the 90 might be more versatile.

What you're proposing is to bypass the relative strength of the 56mm which is the ability to get in a little tighter and achieve shallower DOF. What we need is to see each at it's best distance and treatment for the same scene.

The 56 focuses at 70cm with a magnification of 0.09x and the 90 focuses at 60cm with a magnification of 0.2x.  So if one of these lenses can get in a little tighter it would actually be the 90mm.

It does make the 90mm more versatile in this measure.

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