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RF 16 mm f/2.8 or 35 mm f/1.8 for EOS RP user ?

Started Mar 9, 2022 | Discussions thread
Sittatunga Veteran Member • Posts: 5,406
Re: RF 16 mm f/2.8 or 35 mm f/1.8 for EOS RP user ?
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ZX11 wrote:

ggasquecc wrote:

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I can easily see you putting the RF 35mm on your camera and seldom if ever taking it off. It is a good focal length for scenes with multiple people in it. To capture the whole thing. It is IS and macro. Lots of uses. I think the RF 35 is one of the few lenses that still go on sale.

In my Kodachrome days I wandered around with a Minox 35EL in my shirt pocket and perhaps an SLR with a 100mm lens. My first zoom lens was a 35-70mm that never got zoomed off the 35mm end, so I sold it after 6 months. 35mm is the lens I would take if I were restricted to one focal length.

The 16 seems a lens you put on and try a bit then remove forever unless you are into artistic landscape type shots.

Ultra-wide angle is an acquired taste that can prove highly addictive. My EF-M 11-22mm is my most used APS-C lens by quite a long way, and my fisheye comes second or a very close third. I was out with my 24-105mm this weekend and was getting quite frustrated because it wouldn't go wider than 24mm. But the most effective way to use ultra-wide angle lenses is to get too close for comfort and then move in a bit and around a lot. Not a recipe for good people shots.

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