This Lens Challenges Me -Brightin Star AF 50mm F1.4 APS-C
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- I'll take a photo walk with the new Brightin Star AF 50mm F1.4 APS-C lens to practice my short tele photo skills which are a bit rusty.
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My name is Matti Sulanto, I'm a photographer based in Helsinki Finland.
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I like your photos with this lens.
Thank you!
Have the manual version of this lens in L mount on my Sigma fp. I set it 1:1 to match the imaging circle. So its a cropped 50mm. I grew up with 50/1.8 pentacon lens on film camera so its not a chore. But yes a short tele like the more common 85 is different and its fun for photo walks, but you often want a different lens than what you have.. probably why 28-70 is so popular.
Thanks for sharing your short tele experience.
I used to shoot a lot of "short teles" because I could only afford adapter + cheap old SLR lenses. Nifty 50s or a 35mm on M43. I understand your challenge; my "eye" for those shots was just to make an isolated background portrait out of everything because that's what this focal length excels at. Football-sized subject at a few meters, whether that's your friend's head+shoulders on a park bench, toys on a shop counter, signs at a doorway... Locking myself out of the faster apertures and shooting a full scene instead of a single item would definitely be out of the comfort zone.
Thanks for sharing your short tele experience.
Thank you for the video. Since I only have a PL 42.5, which is a similar sort of short telephoto, i really understand the challenge.
I am not a real photographer, but I use it to take product shorts for my website and it requires 1:1 format size. This forces my mind into an approach that works for this.
I end up using 4:3 format when taking pictures and standing at least 5 or 6 meters minimum away. Then I crop the image to size and delete the non interesting things.
Again not in any way an expert but it seems to work, I like the look, as long as I am willing to accept how the camera and lens work.
Thanks so much for sharing.
An enjoyable video and overview mate! Nice work. :)
Thanks bro. I love the Finnish summer😀
A way to get better at using a short telephoto might be to pretend you're using a standard lens and then think about whether there would be too much unnecessary or superfluous stuff round the edges. If so you've found the perfect short telephoto shot. Click!
Thanks for the tip.
It's how you think about it.
Basic fundamentals.
When you get them correct, you don't have any issues to deal with.
It's a prime lens that you get to bring the background closer if you want to do that.
You're zooming the background closer or further away.
You DON'T zoom up closer to the object.
You HAVE a darkroom to consider in the fundamentals.
Once in a while, you can zoom closer to the object but that's childish behaviour.
You're concerned with the relationship between the object and its surroundings.
Hi Matti, I found this video very educational and an honest and reliable review. I agree that Prime lenses makes you a better photographer, but I still have a soft spot for Zoom lenses in combination with Prime lenses. I tend to like a lens with an Aperture of 1.8 over 1.4. Great presentation Matti, thanks for this video 😊.
Thanks. Zooms are very nice for many situations.
They sure are, thanks Matti 😊
So in your darkroom or editing programs, you zoom in or zoom out.
Your camera is only concerned with the relationship between subject and surroundings.
No zoom lens is designed to zoom to the object, unless it states that.
These lenses appear to bring the background closer or further away.
The background objects appear to Zoom in and Zoom out.
Why don't you learn the basics and go from there?
You can zoom YOURSELF IN by walking closer to the object.
You can zoom in with a projector in the darkroom.
Your zoom lens is ONLY DESIGNED TO zoom the background objects closer or further away.
You might find 35mm is not for you.
You might be using a camera that's several sizes too small.