Timeline for Which lenses to buy next?
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| Mar 30, 2011 at 23:15 | comment | added | user2719 | The point of having a fast extreme wide-angle lens is not to be able to shoot wide open (things never get out-of-focus enough at those focal lengths to look deliberate -- any "bokeh" just looks like a focus error). It's all about the viewfinder -- those damned crop-sensor cameras are seriously dark, and that's at high noon on a sunny day. f/2.8 makes framing a lot easier, especially at dawn and dusk, but the shooting aperture should probably be in the f/5.6-11 range almost all of the time. | |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 11:07 | history | edited | fmark | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 30, 2011 at 10:52 | history | answered | fmark | CC BY-SA 2.5 |