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What is wrong with me? Or, a journey through focal lengths

Started Dec 8, 2018 | Discussions thread
yardcoyote Forum Pro • Posts: 15,754
Re: What is wrong with me? Or, a journey through focal lengths

Unless you have a professional need or are taking a course that requires you to use different focal lengths to complete assignments, why not do whatever the heck you want?

If it suits you to use a particular focal length-- if you like the field of view from behind the camera and the images you get with it, then that is exactly what you should be using.  I am another fan of 85/90mm  equivalent. It's sometimes my favorite field of view and always one of my two favorites. I would use a fast 50mm  if I could have only one lens, a 40 and an fast or fairly fast 85 if I could only have two. Give me all three and I have all I need. Everything else is a special effect.

90mm is fine too. I am very fond of my own 60mm Fuji, though I would eventually like to have the 56mm f/1.2 as well.

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