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I have a lot of respect for 85mm primes. They’re fantastic for protrait photography, product photography, and maybe even landscape photography. I take a lot of photos at this kind of focal length, but do you need a lens like this for photography in the mountains? In this video I talk about whether I need what is typically considered a portrait lens… Also I get very wet walking around Snowdonia…
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29 responses to “Landscape Photography with Portrait Lenses…”
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You can shoot landscapes with anything I have short landscapes with every lens that I own in fact I really love my 75 mm lens which is a 112 on my XT5 but I really liked that focal length
Okay okay…. I'll subscribe. Thanks for some truly fun and entertaining reviews!😃
Thank you for this video. I have cheap zoom lenses for my film camera, but waiting on the backordered adapter. So I am doing trips with my 50mm and 35mm.
I understand your points about DoF. I am using only one Lens for years now, the ZEISS Planar 1.4/50 on my Canon APSC DSLR (80mm equivalent) for everything. I am shooting mainly cityscapes and landscapes. There’s a unique feel in that focal length, not wide yet not too much narrow! But in order to achieve a good DoF I am usually using aperture values south of f/5.6… sometimes, especially if I shoot lower, I even need f/13! The f/1.4 of my lens is great for low light though and I even used it artistically with the addition of an ND1000 for long exposure and a very narrow DoF.
The 85mm lens looks like a cup😐
If you want quality, you think of Panasonic. I use MFT Panasonic cameras since 2008. They re made like a tank. They re robust and more importantly, the reliability of theirs is second to none. Panasonic re the best. And the 85mm (and more…) is the perfect focal length for out of ordinary mood in photography
1/10th sec hand held, no problem with Olympus OMD, superb IBIS, my OMD, 1 gives great low light shot,s. 5 stop,s of IBIS, even better on later model,s.
"There's an amazing valley down there…. can't see it"… trust but verify… yeah ummm no! 😉 Good effort mate! You always have informative and entertaining videos. Those three lenses look like russian nesting dolls. But would you really prefer an Optimus Prime! 😉
I'd love you to do a video on night photography with micro four thirds, what you said about you 15ml prime was quite interesting
Hi James, just found your channel.
Awesome stuff! Keep up the great work!!
Sigma 24-70 f2.8 with my a7iii is the best allround pack for me.. there are some times I would need a 85 or extreme wide but 99% of the time Im good with this Setup🤷 so only using one camera and one lens is light as well I Guess.
Love being taught photography by Gerard Butler's brother, such a famous family
You really should try Sigma's MFT f1.4 trio of lenses in low light. As for landscape photography, I regularly use portrait and telephoto lenses because I'm disabled and can't walk to my locations; I'm limited to where my 4×4 can carry me. Also, I've never allowed myself to be ruled by convention, which lens is for what subject, so for sixty-two years I've just used whichever lens gave me the image I wanted.
I’m sure that Sigma lens was intended for you ….. as a wind-up!🤣
Great job thanks. I now have justification for leaving my primes at home and just taking my zoomz. I get further with less weight and i take better photos with fewer lenses…. Huh just realized that writing this…
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great new studio and love the white tabletop.
You are so good at showing the many facets of how you look and use cameras and lenses. You ROCK!
overcast day and you go up in elevation? lol you are funny
I am personally not a huge fan of huge, expensive, modern primes that are "perfectly sharp, wide open, corner to corner". I don't see the point. If I'm shooting wide open, chances are that I'm going for subject isolation or shallow depth of field, which means that my corners will be out of focus anyways. Why do I care if they're sharp? If anything, I prefer older primes specifically because they're soft in the corners wide open. Finer detail rendering in the center, sure, I can definitely see the benefits there, especially with higher and higher resolution cameras. But this corner sharpness thing? Not so much.
But that's just me.
Great video, sorry about your luck in the field this time.
All those gorgeous images of Iceland, Greenland, etc., in the northern latitudes were taken with your G9… yes?
true that. I did sell my 85F1.8 because in the end I never used it…. Bought a 40 year old Minolta MD 75-150F4 (at just 100+€): same weight, good sharpness, versatile. I've used the zoom more often than the 85 in 3 months vs 10 years (covid might have helped also lol)
James – would love to see a video discussing how you plan your photography trips/excursions☺️
Things I've learned today: "That's the way the cookie crumbles, sometimes" This will go into my non-native-english-speaking portfolio of great English expressions. 😀
A GX9 with the Leica-branded 15, 25, and 45 mm primes – that would be lightweight!
With all due respect James, at 8:16 you would be right IF they were both used on the same sensor camera. But a f/1.7 lens for micro four-thirds is equivalent to a f/3.5 full frame lens. So your bigger f/2.8 lens is actually a half stop brighter. To be fair though, the weight and size difference are still big. I still agree with all your points though. Just want to make sure people have the correct info. For example, if the micro four-thirds Panasonic 35-100 f/2.8 was equivalent to a full frame 70-200 f/2.8, instead of a f/5.6, the size, weight, and price savings would have flipped me to Panasonic years ago.
5:48 he he, joke