You can get an f/1.4 24mm? Where do you get those? I want one!C'mon people, how often are you going to shoot a 24mm at f1.4?
You can get an f/1.4 24mm? Where do you get those? I want one!
I rarely use very fast lenses. I'm a Zeiss user, I can't afford it for one thing ; but there are times when, even though I'm not intending to shoot at full bore, an extra stop would have helped focussing. Less of a problem, it's true, with wides like the 24.
You can get an f/1.4 24mm? Where do you get those? I want one!
That's true Greg, Kodak did a survey several years ago and found that the majority of pictures are shot at f8 and smaller apertures, and another factor is in my experience quite often aperture for aperture the slower versions when compared are sharper because the design hasn't been "stretched" to make it faster, many beginners think that faster lenses are "Better", but it's by no means the caseAF has already been beat to death, so let me mention my other pet peeve: Fast Lenses. Everyone thinks they just HAVE to have the fastest version of any given lens. Why? C'mon people, how often are you going to shoot a 24mm at f1.4? :rolleyes:
That's true Greg, Kodak did a survey several years ago and found that the majority of pictures are shot at f8 and smaller apertures, and another factor is in my experience quite often aperture for aperture the slower versions when compared are sharper because the design hasn't been "stretched" to make it faster, many beginners think that faster lenses are "Better", but it's by no means the case
What skews that Kodak survey is that it includes mostly snappy grandma/uncle Joe types, so therefore it is not to be trusted. Also what skews that study is the fact that most lenses are slow.
Generally speaking you are wrong, because must fast glass is in fact better. Primes will always murder zooms, and slower lenses, with few exceptions.
I have several F/1.4 and a few F1.2 primes and they all are better then any zooms in regard to sharpness, color rendition, anti-glare, and of course speed.
Fast glass means better, faster, more accurate AF, and even better MF because the view finder is brighter for middle-aged and older eyes. Fast means more DOF possabilities too.
Those that poo-poo fast glass just don't understand photography.
VR and IS are over-rated at a 'consumer' level (pros can make astute judgements as to its validity to suit their application); it also adds weight, increases power consumption and the complexity of optics. I'm waiting for the day they put VR or IS in a 17mm fisheye and trumpet that loudly. Bleugh! Look, back in my uni days we hand-held 300mm and 400mm primes on 100 or 200iso film, or used a tripod for long exposures (IIRC, multi-exposures). Scant few of us two decades on pay any lip service to IS (in terms of being Canon users).
Yes, I agree with one-point focusing; that's my standard procedure when using TS-E lenses and the AEL button is used to start metering/AF-"confirmation" (but not fire the shutter, which is done by remote control) the shutter button is effectively bypassed for this critical work; one of the nice custom function of the EOS 1N (and others). All focus is manual and critical (magnified) and the flashing 'in focus' signal is definitely not gospel definitely not with TS-E and any movement applied.
I thought Canon's T90 had a double exposure prevention mode? The mention of it on the A1 prompted this query.
I'm experimenting with multi-exposures now not with the 1N, but on pinhole! The joys of film...
Best practices for modern SLR camera workflow means utilizing the 45 or 51 or more focus points judiciously and as required, without the Recomposing.
One FP usage means a heck of a lot of Lock-Focus-Recomposing. Sloopy camera workflow, to be sure. This bad habit means inaccurate auto focus, AND inaccurate metering too. If you want to do this while shooting F8 or down from there AND far from your subject/s, then the ill effects may not haunt your pictures. But for anything close and fast in aperture, Lock-Focus-recompose is a huge mistake.
Best practices for modern SLR camera workflow means utilizing the 45 or 51 or more focus points judiciously and as required, without the Recomposing.
... Ye Gods. Makes me want to love a Hasselblad (yes Sirius, you heard right), joyously free of such superfluous, centralised aids and, oh yes of course, composition is not necessarily centralised in the viewfinder, nor should it be. And thus when it isn't, you will be focus-lock-recomposing. Ah well...
Best practices for modern SLR camera workflow means utilizing the 45 or 51 or more focus points judiciously and as required, without the Recomposing.
I agree with David, autofocus is overrated. I have a little digital bridge camera and it's autofocus kinda bothers me! I geuss I'm just an oddball.
Jeff
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