Which is your most used focal length on Full Format 35mm cameras
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I thought that but then thought if I do that it really doesn't prove anything (not that its going to anyway).
40 is very liberal ( indecisive )
The reason I asked is that I was looking at a few wedding shoots and it struck me the vast majority of images were shot on 50mm or close. And that includes a lot of head shots. 50 seems to be a very versatile focal length. You can get close or stand back for full length portraits.
thirtyfivefifty
Noctilust survivor
Was a very big 50 user until I bought a 35 last year, 35 is now my workhorse, 50 plays second fiddle. Would enjoy a fast 28.
GaryLH
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Did not have to think twice 40f2 Minolta m for CL and cv 40 f1.4. 🙂. So I voted something else.
Gary
Gary
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40 is indecisive?
i see it as more bold, independent...not a sheep...
i see it as more bold, independent...not a sheep...
Ezzie
E. D. Russell Roberts
In the past, 50mm. It was what the camera was boxed with. These days 28mm.
135format
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It was a faint attempt at humour. i.e. can't decide on 35 or 50. Never mind.
I guess the results show what we all knew which is that 35 and 50 lenses are the most used. But I often think that shorter than 35 gives a more dynamic looking image but as someone was saying, you do have to get right up close for those shots and it can make the subject (and photographer) uncomfortable. I thought the most popular would be 35.
Now we are sheep for liking 35mm and 50mm...? come on, it's just photography equipment.
Bob Michaels
nobody special
I wonder how many here could tell the difference between a 35 and a 40, or a 40 and a 50 for that matter, without a point of reference or comparison.
I know the FOV of my CV 40 matches the 35mm frame lines of my ZI at normal shooting distance.
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i was reacting to being called 'indecisive'...
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i use the 35mm fl on the rd1 for my 40...
kdemas
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I'm a 50 kinda guy most of the time when doing "street".
jippiejee
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I brought my 50mm f/1.2 for a concert today because it's fast. And I hated hated hated that choice. So tight!! Only dead-on compositions when you can't really move. Did I mention I hated it? Hate hate hate. Should have brought my 28mm. Hate hate hate 50mm for concerts. Bluh. Hate. Hate.
al1966
Feed Your Head
The more I photograph the more I use a 50, I like 35 and can use it all day but I will frequently want to get that bit tighter. 135 is another I enjoy but no way I would not leave the house with just one. 50 is just about right as when wandering with just one on whatever camera I am carrying that dat I very rarely think I want wider or narrower. Actually it is probably one or two times out of ten walks, I would quite happily have just a 50 and not feel I was missing much, when I was younger I wanted to get more lenses other than the 50mm I had, I ended up using the 50mm most.
105/2 Nikkor on my Nikon, it's the only full frame 35mm I've shot this year...and nearly every frame is with the 105
pagpow
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Poll specifies FF "camera", not RF. In which case, 85 - 100 on SLR. On RF, it was 50mm, but that might be in flux.
bgb
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24mm of late ... started at 50mm then 35mm then 28mm and now 24, no idea what I will end up with 🙂
Richard G
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50. Chiefly because it's the C Sonnar or I might not have rediscovered the 50. Then 35, then 25, then 21 then 90. RFF would have brought me back to the 50.
DNG
Film Friendly
I picked "25" because my Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AiS is my main Lens for my Nikon FE... BUT, I own a 55mm f/3.5 Micro Nikkor (last non-Ai, but it is Ai'd now), and a Nikkor Q 135mm f/2.8 Non-Ai... But the 55 and 135 are used my m4/3 95% of the time...
Richard G
Veteran
I agree with this mostly. I do hanker after wider if I am out with a 50, but it will do nearly all the time. In a discussion of this a year or more ago the 35 was favoured by one astute photographer when he was some place new and wanted to get it all in the frame, whereas around home there wasn't so much he wanted in and the 50 was preferred. I've recounted Bill Pierce's rediscovery of the 50 over on his forum, this new medium telephoto on his mate's camera which he found a revelation. Once I heard him talk of the 50 as a medium telephoto it gave me a new insight into that lens, which in turn helped my appreciation of the 35 as well.