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16, 23, 35 and 50. Pick Two!

Started Feb 16, 2019 | Polls thread
deednets Forum Pro • Posts: 13,887
Re: 16, 23, 35 and 50. Pick Two!

Rod McD wrote:

Hi,

Lens choice is entirely personal. It depends on your subjects and your compositional preferences, so what's good for one photographer may not be good for another.....

Personally I think your first premise - that the four are too close together - is wrong. To me that they are significantly different. The steps are big enough to make it worthwhile to carry all four. Except I substitute the 60mm for the 50mm. There's nothing wrong with the 50mm - it's a great lens - but I like the 60's close up capability, and it's still a very small lens.

Cheers, Rod

Rod have you been hiding somewhere or have you only been a tad bored of the - mostly - same old, same old??

On your subject: the 50/2 does have some rather amazing demi-macro capabilities. For my liking this lens is often enough close enough.

I only took this shot to compare it to the Nikkor 55/3.5 Micro:

Did you get any of the heat over where you live?? Here in Auckland we seem to stay at 30 or below which in all fairness is plenty for me. heat that is ... not aperture or low light capabilities

Deed

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