The Best Focal Length Ever?! - Can You Shoot Landscape Photography With A 50mm F1.8?!
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- Honistor Slate Mine & Warnscale Bothy - The Lake District: Put me on a desert island and tell me I can only take 1 lens and it will be a Nifty 50! Join me as I go for a wander with the Nikon 50mm F1.8 and see whether shooting at a fixed focal length and aperture all day is a good thing for the landscape photographer!
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The main reason that a 50mm lens is so small on an old SLR is because the mirror-box takes up about 1/2 in from the back of the lens to the film plane. A modern mirror-less camera has no real need for the extra length. The lens designers use extra elements for superior optical corrections, but if you just stick the old lens on an adapter, then you see that extra length used by the adapter (which is mainly an empty tube) and you get the same picture you did on the SLR. If you take most 50mm lenses and measure from the front of the front glass element to the sensor plane (or film plane) the distance is probably going to be similar.
Great intel and super interesting! Thanks!
Great watch, mate and some really nice images - love the old travel stuff here and there too! Reminded me how much focus stacked pin-sharp content we see these days but nice to see the different approach too with this type of lens! 🙂
It’s very true!!
Hey Si. I recently switched to the Z5 from Canon. Have a 40mm f2, love it. Havent tried landscape yet (not many rolling hills in NY 😂).
Welcome to Nikon! 40 is a lovely length too. I think 50 for landscape isn’t that amazing as a single lens, but for the sort of stuff you do, it’s ace. As is 40. Was fun experimenting though! I was walking around Edinburgh last week with just a 50 and it was perfect 👌
@siwphoto Yea I have a 50 for the Canon, I do love it. Just that the 5d mark ii is not the most street friendly camera 🤣 . I do also find that 40/50 is great for a cityscape, it allows to feature the subject while cutting out unwanted distracting buildings. If that makes sense 🤣🤣
For sure. The my Z7ii isn’t so great for being unobtrusive either. I had a Fuji X100V for a while and I sold it. Regret that. Def tempted by another. Was perfect. Almost. Just a little wide for me.
40 is also my new standard
40 is such a perfect length. I wish the Nikon F2 was weather sealed and a 1.8 hahah
Love my 50 1.8, it has insane detail and is great for panoramic photography! 👍🏾
Ah good to know. Will def have to try a pano with it! Thanks for the message 🙏
My 50mm lens on my 6x7cm medium format camera is great for landscapes and group portraits.
My 50mm lens on my full-frame cameras is good for normal subjects and full-lengh portraits.
My 50mm lens on my APS-C camera is good for half-length and head&shoulder portraits.
My 50mm lens on my micro 4/3 camera is good for head&shoulder portraits.
50 for the win 🥇 no matter what the genre!
I still use the old 50/1.8 on my loud Nikon
Loved my old F mount 50 🙏
Not a bad spot for a sandwich at all mate! 😊 Looks like a fine lens indeed.
Haha, yeah there are worse places for a butty ;) Hope you're well. I think it's a great walk around lens, but won't be my default for the landscape gig... was never going to be really, but fun to try!
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