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Whats your favorite focal length to shoot with?
Do you like long lenses to get that great compression of distance and isolation? Or maybe you're the master of the wide angle with vast amounts of details stretching 180* degrees?
I have a love for my 135mm f2, its probably my favorite lens for capturing a head shot, this probably grew out of my love of my 85mm on my 7D. The 135 has a 9.5 degree field of view, the APC equivalent of a 135mm sits at just shy of the 85mm lens length. The narrow field of view combined with great depth of field really allows for the compression of distance and great depth of field.
So whats your favorite?
PS heres a hawk sitting in a tree downtown taken with the 135 f2 L on a 5DmkII

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Rustybloke
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Aug 24, 2020
35mm bmpcc6k
Stevem415
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Dec 8, 2018
If I have to go light and pick only one lens for full-frame sensor or film it would be a 35mm. Wide enough to get a good scene on the street or natural landscape and just crop to get a tighter shot in post.
NathanaelBC
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Sep 7, 2018
24mm though on a APS-C
smallbit
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May 12, 2018
300mm for wildlife and 30mm f1.6 on indoors.
BetaWar
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Mar 29, 2018
I really enjoy my 85mm f/1.8, though I also love 135mm... I just haven't gotten one of them yet since they also tend to be expensive and my money finds its way to other things before I get to that point. For that reason, I frequently use my 75-250mm kit lens at 135mm and can get some pretty nice results with that.
Considering that most of my photos are of nature or my dogs, I should look at getting some macro and/ or wide-angle lenses. I just haven't at this point.
bborosky
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Mar 25, 2018
35mm prime on full frame or its equivalent. Takes it all in without distortion.
katarrhakt
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Jan 10, 2018
Zeiss 85/1.4 on a Nikon FF or Fuji 56/1.2 (a close equivalent to the former) on a Fuji crop.
MOHA
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Jan 6, 2018
mine would have to be a 85mm f/1.4 nikkor
17, as wide open as she goes. I do a LOT of storm photography and use my 17-35 ultra-wide lens almost all of the time, most of it wide open at 17. You just can't really capture a mesocyclone on a narrow view, a close up is pointless. Doesn't show you The Storm.
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(modified from RAW and chopped this down so it would post on here correctly)
I have a 14mm fisheye, but the distortion really makes understanding the image trickier on massive objects like supercells.
quinnls
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Nov 15, 2017
I tend to like wider lenses, as they give a much more “open” feel. I like that more than longer focal lengths, which personally can give a sort of clausterphobic feel. Of course, it all depensa on how you use it and if you do it correctly, so all focal lengths look good in specific applications.
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