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 02/18/2021 03:52:16 AM · #1
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by kirbic:
I've never looked at this, though I certainly could as I am a long-time Lr user. I'll have to take up the challenge...

It would also be interesting to do this for aperture and shutter-speed; I'm pretty sure that over half of my shots are at the widest possible aperture.


In the past I did everything on fully manual. Nowadays I use a lot of aperture priority, so those statistics would be quite predictable for me.
 02/18/2021 03:50:44 AM · #2
Originally posted by posthumous:
thank you for explaining. interesting that you want to go so wide. I'm sure you can get some interesting shots that way.


I often feel I am unable to get enough into the frame when doing landscapes, so more and more I am doing small panoramic images of just two or 3 frames to get the wide view. The software is so good in alignment that it often does not require a lot of manual adjustment. That's the really cheap alternative, no new hardware required.
 02/17/2021 08:10:48 PM · #3
thank you for explaining. interesting that you want to go so wide. I'm sure you can get some interesting shots that way.
 02/17/2021 06:08:58 PM · #4
Originally posted by kirbic:
I've never looked at this, though I certainly could as I am a long-time Lr user. I'll have to take up the challenge...

It would also be interesting to do this for aperture and shutter-speed; I'm pretty sure that over half of my shots are at the widest possible aperture.
 02/17/2021 04:55:41 PM · #5
Originally posted by posthumous:
What does your lens angle have to do with full frame?


The DX sensor is smaller than a full frame sensor and as result it covers a smaller portion of the image projected by the lens. This is the crop factor, meaning that an 18 mm lens on a DX sensor result in a field of view equivalent to a 1.5*18=27 mm on a full frame.

Seeing that apparently my usage is very much skewed towards the widest angle available, if I want to cover even more in my images, I could go a step further by using full frame instead of a DX camera (provided my lens is suitable for full frame as well and not only for DX), or I could go for a wide angle lens on my DX, for example a 10-20 or 12-24 zoom, going below the 18-200 I currently have.

Message edited by author 2021-02-17 16:56:29.
 02/17/2021 04:30:07 PM · #6
What does your lens angle have to do with full frame?
 02/17/2021 03:21:29 PM · #7
I've never looked at this, though I certainly could as I am a long-time Lr user. I'll have to take up the challenge...
 02/17/2021 12:41:32 PM · #8
I have been looking at the usage of my lenses during the past 18 years of digital photography (the library filter in Lightroom can show camera details and those statistics I copied and pasted into Excel).

Over the years I have been using:
* A Sony DSC707 wide a 38 -190 mm zoom lens (35 mm equivalent)
* A Nikon D70 with either 27-105 or 105-450 zoom lens, or the 27-300 zoomlens (18-70,70-300,70-200 on DX)
* A Nikon D7000 with the 27-300 zoomlens (18-200 on DX format)

I found:
* around 30 % of my images are shot at the widest lens angle
* around 45 % of my images are shot at a focal length up to 50 (35 mm equivalent)
* around 10 % of my images are shot at a focal length above 190
* the rest is fairly equally divided in between, with a slight decrease in percentage from wide to long

So, as result, when considering new equipment, I think I am probably better of with a full frame camera or with a wider lens than anything else (unless I plan to go more specialist with macro or really long for wildlife)

Eye opener for me.

Message edited by author 2021-02-17 13:43:23.
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