Prime lenses are common in landscape photography as well. Their sharper nature can help photographers capture details in mountains, grass, rocks, and so on. And when trying to capture natural phenomena like the Northern Lights, a prime lens' wider aperture will give the photographer more leeway ...
Besides the image quality, using a prime lens simply means a much lighter, more compact lens.Pancake lensesare the most extreme example of this, where a lens is shorter than it is wide. This makes primes a great choice for lightweight mirrorless systems. Of course, primes aren’t always l...
What Is a Prime Lens? If you’ve spent any amount of time watching videos and reading articles about photography, you’ll almost certainly have heard or seen others talk aboutzoom and prime lenses. A prime lens has a fixed focal length, whereas zoom lenses let you increase or decrease this...
PRIME LENS DEFINITION What is a prime lens? A prime lens is a fixed focal length lens that doesn’t let you zoom in or out. This focal length is the distance between the point of convergence in the lens to the sensor in your camera. Prime lenses have very wide or large apertures. Ap...
Re: What is your favorite prime lens, and why? In reply to jonikon • Nov 20, 2023 1 jonikon wrote: All my current lenses are zoom lenses, ( I just sold my Samyang 12mm f/2), and I'm looking to add a prime lens now that I have a camera with IBIS. I'm curious what...
1. Nifty Fifty Lens Has a Perfect Focal Length Nifty fifties are 50mm in length. And this is perfect for most photography – because the 50mmperspectiveis just like human sight. In other words, when you look through a nifty fifty lens, the scene will look completely normal, same as if...
A 200mm lens is a good choice for this type of photography. 2. Prime lenses Prime lenses are ideal for candid photography as they’re usually smaller, lighter and faster than zoom lenses. They’re great for really wide apertures, so you can separate the subject from the background and ca...
If Hassy continues to hold the top 4 threads, I will start a new thread to interrupt the flow of Hassy dominance today. It will be entitled "What is the GF lens you use the least?" By the way, I'm in Cancun with some grandkids and have my gear. I have been here for 3 days...
and certainly not what justifies such a significantly higher price tag when compared to a photography lens of a comparable focal length and aperture. For instance, the Canon CN-E 50mm T1.3 cinema lens goes for almost $4,000, while the EF-mount 50mm f/1.4 is just about a tenth of that...
Which would you rather look at? Oh by the way, the first shot was taken with an $18,000 lens, the second with a $1000 lens – toss those in The Box. 4) Creativity Creativity is all about seeing a subject in a way others don’t. It’s about being original. Photographers whose wo...