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Fast lenses for night action shots

Started Aug 31, 2021 | Discussions thread
Paulmorgan Veteran Member • Posts: 9,496
Re: Fast lenses for night action shots
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sifro wrote:

Paulmorgan wrote:

It seems to me that it's been taken with a short lens (maybe 15mm or even less?) and it would be pretty cool to create some nice special effects.

Back in the eighties I worked the clubs for a bit, packed dance floors, fave lens was a 20 mm and flash often held aloft.

Today you can get similar using Pergear and Rockstar body cap lenses if you add speedlte to the mix, think creatively.

Nice! Is "body cap lenses" an alternate name for fisheye lenses?

No most of the time not, there have been quite a few including 18 and 24mm.

I buy them and use them as body caps, with the advantage, they can also be used as lenses when needed.

Pergear 10 mm`s

I have a Samyang 12mm f/2.8 fish eye which I didn't use because of the light conditions, and because I thought it was going to distort a bit too much.
In my mind, the non-fisheye samyang 12mm f/2.0 would have been so much better in this case, also to recreate the effect of the picture I posted.
I might give it a try next time though.

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