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01/05/2007 04:48:43 AM · #1 |
Apologies if this was asked and answered before.
Why do you have a wide angle lens? When do you use it? Why is it important to have?
Thanks in advance.
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01/05/2007 05:00:16 AM · #2 |
Here is a similar thread Jan Vdw.
Wide Angle Lens |
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01/05/2007 05:14:28 AM · #3 |
| Technically, a wide angle lens gives you a wide field of view. It allows more of the world to fit onto your camera's sensor. If you want to shoot large mountains or wide landscapes, you need a wide angle lens. It can be used for anything though. Landscapes, studio work, portraits etc. |
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01/05/2007 06:00:08 AM · #4 |
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01/05/2007 06:15:17 AM · #5 |
huge dof is handy as well - a really wide angle lens has a really short hyperfocal point. Even at wide apertures the depth of field is almost infinite. Very handy at night time when there isn't enough light for the autofocus to work. With a 10m lens the hyperfocal point is 1.5 meters even at f2.8 - so all you have to do is focus manually to around 1.5m and everything is in focus. the longer lenses you get the less depth of field you have to work with.
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01/05/2007 08:21:53 AM · #6 |
Wide angles (not extreme wide angles) represent natural human perception. Normal lenses, which have an angle of coverage of about 40 to 50 degrees (45-50mm for 35mm, 80mm for 6x6, 135-150mm for 4x5, 30-35mm for DX, etc) are called normal because they approximate the magnification of human vision. But they do not capture the expanse of human vision, because humans have two eyes. Wide angles are often successfully used for landscapes because they provide a natural human perspective. This is why lenses that has between 84 and 90-degree coverage are the most used in landscape photography. I have read in books by Galen Rowell (who shot exclusively in 35mm) that 95% of all his images could have been taken by just two lenses the 24mm and 85mm. 85mm for portraits, compression, etc. and the 24mm for everything else.
That is my only frustration with the DX format size is that no one has yet made a normal zoom that equaled the popular 24-85 zooms so popular with 35mm. The 76 degree wide coverage of 18 to xxx zooms on the market often leave me wanting on the wide end not just in landscapes but street scenes, environmental portraiture, etc. My theory is that the industry is fearful that the 16mm focal length has been equated with fisheyes for so long that a zoom starting at 16mm would subconsciously put some off, although Pentax/Tokina has a 16-50 f2.8 in the pipeline. It is foolish to think that digital with all the advancements that it has brought to many aspects of photography has changed the basic nature of photography.
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01/05/2007 08:37:03 AM · #7 |
I am going to use my new fisheye for indoor shots, DOF and to take photos that more represent natural human perception.
I have seen so many full frame fisheye shots that gave me a feeling of standing there viewing it myself.
Going to use it to just take it all in....
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01/05/2007 08:43:41 AM · #8 |
| Ever wish you could back up just a few steps more so you can get everything in the shot... but there's nowhere left to back up? :) |
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01/05/2007 08:55:05 AM · #9 |
Here is some cool stuff done with a fisheye.
//www.gdargaud.net/Photo/Fisheye.html
I have a lot of idea's for using mine, just need to get out there with it now and do them..
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01/05/2007 09:20:26 AM · #10 |
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01/06/2007 01:50:09 AM · #11 |
Thanks for all the replies!
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