What is your least favorite lens length...

What is your least favorite lens length...

  • 28mm

    Votes: 120 11.9%

  • 35mm

    Votes: 120 11.9%

  • 40mm

    Votes: 71 7.0%

  • 50mm

    Votes: 145 14.4%

  • 75mm

    Votes: 65 6.4%

  • 85mm

    Votes: 19 1.9%

  • 90mm

    Votes: 34 3.4%

  • 100mm

    Votes: 42 4.2%

  • 135mm

    Votes: 392 38.9%
  • Total voters
    1,008
I voted 28. I don't quite know why, but it just seems that I don't get what I want from it. I love 50 and find it comes closest most of the time to what I am envisioning. 35 is nice for a bit more inclusion, and still pretty normal. 24 is good and wide and just short of distortion. I love 85 for indoor people shots and 105 for outdoor, and 135 is at least pretty decent for pulling things in. But there's just something sort of "eh" about 28
 
steamer said:
I was thinking this exactly. No love for the 135. I guess they don't have the a Zeiss 135. I forget about it sometimes , then I'm always amazed by how well it performs.
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Makes my camera look obscenely huge, but I'm loving the goggled 135 elmarit. Got it while my 90 is with Mr. Goldberg with the intent of selling it once I got it back, but I'm finding I use it more and more.

Shot with ADOX 50, not my favorite film, but I quite like this photo.

My least favorite? I think 28. if I want wide, I want WIIIIIDEEEEE. And it's not enough, but the 35/50 combo works well for me. I think my 'normal focal length' of my vision is around 75, but I find the 35 most useful for me and the 50 good for lowlight.

I know for a lot the 28 and 35 are standard walkaround combo for people, but if I'm going to use a lens that needs a finder, I may as well go with a 21 or 24.
 
I don't know if I can call a focal length "least favorite". More like, "least used to".

I never really shot with 135mm and then I took it as the only lens for my trip to Washington State and found that I came away with some really great images. I think it taught me that I can enjoy any focal length, I just know I have to work within the limitations of that frame.
 
a 50mm, any 50. Just don't like the angle of view. I have a 50 f1:1.2 Ai and it's pretty good but I have it just to have one. Rarely used and for nothing of importance.
 
pvdhaar said:
I'll take this as what's your least favourite on an RF.. In which case it's the focal lengths over 75mm. So I ticked 135..

On an SLR, though, I really do appreciate long focal lengths to compress perspective in landscape photography..
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I'll take it as on a RF too. I picked 40 mm, it's too close to 35 and 50, I can see how some might like it, but not me. Coming in close behind, it'd be the 85 and 100, might as well use a 90 which I have frame lines for.

Michael
 
I don't think I have a least favorite. Or at least it depends upon what camera and lens we're talking about.

Various different lenses on various cameras haven't appealed to me, but the same FoV on another camera with another lens has.

G
 
135mm for me.

Usually great, optically, but I find 135mm too long for portraits and not long enough for the telephoto work I like to do - particularly when on holiday (birds, animals, etc).
 
my least favorite focal length is anything less than 42mm.

with smartphone default focal length at 35mm equivalent, and starting focal length for kit lenses, both dslr and mirrorless at 28mm equivalent, the world is full of widenagle shots.
 
This is kind of a dumb question (no offense to OP), as there is rarely "one" answer as there is for the opposing "favorite" question. By that I mean if you don't like 90, you probably don't like anything longer either, for example.

I always find it interesting to read how much others are attracted to focal lengths that I find unsuited for me. 75, for example--not as good as a 90 for portraits or longer work, and not as versatile as the 50 (again, YMMV). Or why someone could dislike the 35 (heresy!) as it's my favorite. And others still are all-wide-all-the-time, which I don't get either.

It's interesting to hear others' views. It's a very personal thing I guess.
 
raid said:
With a 50mm lens, you have to work harder to create a great image. Isn't this most of the fun in photography?
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As Margu said in another post, the world is filled with wide angle shots. I think that means to make a good wide angle shot is just harder. To me, going wider isn't "easier".
 
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