When it comes to standard prime lenses, 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm are generally the most popular. Nonetheless, there are plenty of other focal lengths out there, and one particularly worthwhile option is 24mm. This great video discusses why a 24mm lens can be such a compelling option and why you should consider including one in your arsenal.
Coming to you from Pat Kay, this interesting video makes a case for why you should consider adding a 24mm lens to your bag. Many people have 24mm available in a 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, but something like a 24mm f/1.4 is vastly different. Aside from a few exceptions, 24mm is generally the widest focal length at which you can get an f/1.4 aperture, making it a unique creative combination and one that many people quickly find addicting. Furthermore, it is about as wide as you can go before wide angle distortion becomes significantly visible and begins to take over the overall appearance of the image. All these attributes make such a lens fantastic for a huge range of applications, including astrophotography, landscapes, portraiture, events and weddings, and a lot more. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Kay.
I don't like 24mm, but 28mm, omgosh.
I got tired of waiting for him to say something of note. I abandoned the video after about three minutes. As soon as I realized he was just trying to kill time. How do they go about selecting these videos? This video is misleading for beginners and silly for the experienced.
--- "I abandoned the video after about three minutes. As soon as I realized he was just trying to kill time."
Tired of waiting? His intro was only 54 secs and reasons started thereafter.
--- "This video is misleading for beginners and silly for the experienced."
How so? He provided his reasons and examples. And his examples are pretty great.
I thought it was a very interesting video, i have always thought of 24mm just for wide landscapes or getting the full width of a building in the frame but portraits, too wide. Using an cropped sensor camera with a 24mm had not occured to me either so thank you Pat, always good to hear a different perspective, look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Loving this focal length will also depend on if your shooting full frame or crop sensor. As a crop sensor Fujifilm shooter,16mm is closest 24mm full frame equivalent. It's great for many types of photography such as event photography, street, documentary , landscape and travel. It can also be used for portraiture. I found it a reasonably good focal length for everyday shooting, but it's not particularly spectacular at either end of the scale. On the wide end,18mm & 20mm (12mm &13mm apsc) is a much more usable focal length. On the tight end, 28mm & 35mm(18mm & 23mm apsc) seem to possess a certain focal length magic.
"You're in the market for a lens but you don't know what to get".... that makes no sense. That's the same as saying you don't know why you need another lens you just want to spend money....