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Go-to lenses for event photography

Started 3 months ago | Questions thread
Fuji Maine Senior Member • Posts: 1,702
Re: and one more comment about a strobe.
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I'd like to take you in a completely different direction. The viltrox 13mm 1.4 is definitely worth considering if you're doing indoor stuff with groups. With regards to flash, I agree with you about regular on camera flash looking terrible. I don't even like it with a modifier to be honest with you. Off camera with a trigger and a modifier on the flash is going to give you your best result by a mile. The nice thing about going wider with the 13 mm is that you get the light intake of a fast lens without the depth of field issues. It is certainly its own look with a lens that wide but as far as utility goes and price point it's hard to beat. Also the nice thing is, if you do have to have the flash on the camera instead of off of it, that wider aspect ratio doesn't make flash look so terrible. I have finally embraced good noise reduction software as just part of the necessary workflow for APS-C cameras however I am certainly not in the "just crank up the ISO crowd". You can't escape the rule of garbage and garbage out. So because of that I would rather get as much light to the camera as I can rather than having to perform miracles in post.

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