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Suggestions for wide angle lens (for landscape/astro/street)

Started Jun 11, 2021 | Questions thread
jjz2 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,396
Re: Suggestions for wide angle lens (for landscape/astro/street)
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biza43 wrote:

nemendes wrote:

Hi Everyone!

I didn't use wide angle lenses before (i tried few times but not was for me). I have 35mm, 56mm, 90mm, 50-140. Recently i bought x100v to try wider focal length for myself. It is a quite good machine, sharpness, min focus distance and portability are great. I used it for street, indoor events and a little landscapes, architectures too. I realized that 23mm (35mm for FF) focal length is kind a neither wide nor tele for me. So, i wanna buy wider lens for mostly landscape, astro, architecture and street photography. Let me share my knowledge about wide lenses that i observed; (by the way i have X-T4)

I am a big fan of spacing prime lenses "1 stop" apart in terms of focal length. Like 24, 50, 100, 200, etc. I read this in an old book by John Shaw, more than 20 years ago. It makes a lot of sense. Then you adjust to personal taste or requirements, fill in blanks at "1/2 stop" apart.

Same here... but like it ever so slightly wider than that 24/50/100(5) set.

I use 21mm 40mm 85mm FF equiv instead. If I did Leica, I'd do 21/40/90.

I used to have 35 AND 50 equiv in the middle...just prefer replacing both with 40mm.

there might be a few shots you can't get, but you also know more when to switch over.

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