Loving all the travel images with the 24. It has got me thinking about the ideal 2 to 3 lens setup for casual travel. The 24 GM seems to slot in especially well with normal and short tele being as compact as the ZM 85/4 and the CV40/1.2. I'm a bit wedded to my normal lens being AF, so I think that space in the bag is going to be taken up by the Batis 40 I picked up on Monday, which will probably mean my wide with be a Loxia 21, but I can really see the appeal of the dual benefits of speed the GM 24 offers. Quite compelling. If it were to replace the Loxia, efficient packing for me would need to be worked out, because I tend to want my over the shoulder bag to be able to have enough space for an appropriate weight synthetic jacket to be stuffed into it along with a few small sundries (small snack, small paper back book) and for crowded spaces (metros, museums, streets, etc., etc.) I tend want my bag to be on the smaller size. I've never traveled with an ultralight tripod like the one mentioned here, but that seems pretty darned slick too. Hmmm...
I like a lot of images in this thread and it got me thinking about this lens. However, 24 is just too wide for my style of shooting. I like 28 field of view better. Oh well. Think I'll stick with my Leica 28 and Zeiss 35ZM...
Jack Thompson wrote:
Loving all the travel images with the 24. It has got me thinking about the ideal 2 to 3 lens setup for casual travel. The 24 GM seems to slot in especially well with normal and short tele being as compact as the ZM 85/4 and the CV40/1.2. I'm a bit wedded to my normal lens being AF, so I think that space in the bag is going to be taken up by the Batis 40 I picked up on Monday, which will probably mean my wide with be a Loxia 21, but I can really see the appeal of the dual benefits of speed the GM 24 offers. Quite compelling. If it were to replace the Loxia, efficient packing for me would need to be worked out, because I tend to want my over the shoulder bag to be able to have enough space for an appropriate weight synthetic jacket to be stuffed into it along with a few small sundries (small snack, small paper back book) and for crowded spaces (metros, museums, streets, etc., etc.) I tend want my bag to be on the smaller size. I've never traveled with an ultralight tripod like the one mentioned here, but that seems pretty darned slick too. Hmmm...
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I personally love wide angle stuff so I've become pretty well stocked in the range with fast primes (20, 24, 28, 35, and 40). lol.
These days though, I've been packing the GM 24, VM 40/1.2, and Sigma 105 in a shoulder bag which has covered all of my needs really well without forcing me to concede a whole lot.
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Picture This! wrote:
I like a lot of images in this thread and it got me thinking about this lens. However, 24 is just too wide for my style of shooting. I like 28 field of view better. Oh well. Think I'll stick with my Leica 28 and Zeiss 35ZM...
I used to think that also many years back (especially when I was still shooting Canon). However, ever since I picked up the Fuji 16/1.4 several years back, I've grown very accustomed to shooting around 20-24mm. With the new GM 24 in the bag now, all of my other WA stuff has seen a significant drop in mount time. Might be worth trying out as you may just change your mind about 24
Fred Miranda wrote:
Venice, Italy shot from a moving boat handheld at ISO 20,000
S. Giorgio Mag.!!
I almost (almost!) miss they days when getting anything like this involved tripods (or in this case a pontoon). Its sorta like shooting fish in a barrel, especially for web use nowadays...
So I did a PR gig today a awards function and usually I shoot people chatting to each other in small groups like 2 to 5 people. So a great chance to shoot the Sony 24 in normal mode and also in crop mode. Well it worked perfectly focused essential the same in AFC and Eye AF. So I put the crop or APSC as a custom function on the focus hold button ( button on lens) and man is this awesome to work like this as my left hand is there anyway and I don’t have to take my right thumb off my back focus button or EYE AF button. I still have the crop function on C4 but you gotta reach for it which sometimes can be a pain but anyway the switch between crop and full frame is quite nice and smooth in operation. The only real downside is your shooting 18 max in crop but for work like this I don’t need more than 18mpx.
So let me continue on how I deal with the mix of 42 and 18 max in C1 . So since these are PR shots in post on output I’m doing JPEG, SRGB and than I set a fixed width of 12 inches at 300 dpi. Now not matter what it will always go to that dimension I set , so when I’m done processing I don’t know if it was 42 or 18 as the files sizes are identical and honestly what I want to deliver to client. They don’t need to know what your doing here.
The only negative I see is when in C1 looking at the lens data it always says 24mm regardless if I’m in crop or not. So how do I know and you may have this in LR as well but in my processing summary if I select a 18 max file in for example a full Tif file the 18 mpx file will be 54 mb and the full frame will be 112. Does this really matter maybe not but kind of nice to know especially when your trying this out when testing or after your done shooting.
One other trick not so much with this lens but working in crop mode I can increase the resolution back up in C1 and I found 50 percent more pretty safe if you want a bigger end file. So you can stretch or creatively cheat a little.
Finally with this I decided to bail on the Batis 40 as I really don’t need it for this work. So if your sporting a 24, 50/55 and 85 and willing to work in crop mode when needed or to eliminate another lens than it’s kind of a nice option to have so my 24 is 24/36 and my 55 is 55/82 and my 85 is 85/127.
Btw was using my Godox 860 and it corrected any diffrence in aperture Change going from 24 to 36
Just ordered this lens. 24 is a bit wide for my style of environmental portraiture (prefer 28) but boy am I blown away by the quality of images in this thread !
Picture This! wrote:
Just ordered this lens. 24 is a bit wide for my style of environmental portraiture (prefer 28) but boy am I blown away by the quality of images in this thread !
You just have to watch for stretching towards the edges (when positioning feet or heads for example) and also maintain the camera as level as possible to avoid body distortion. Don't get too close either. A 28mm would be easier to use for sure but I think you will like shooting at 24mm. Perfect for travel lens imo.
Thank you Fred. Going to Spain and Portugal for the holidays and cant wait to use this lens (assuming I receive it by then from BH as its backordered).
