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 p.47 #5 · Voigtlander 50mm f/2 APO-Lanthar Review | |
carlos212 wrote:
Thanks for the answer david.
I will carry a longer lens yes, something between 80 and 100 mm, now I usually carry voigtlander 35 1.7 with pcx, tokina atx 90 mm and lox 21. The thing with the lox is that I find the rendering of close subjects (foreground etc) awkward, which is a shame because is a fantastic lens, and that's the argument for enviromental portraits that you make, though I don't shoot much I do include foreground and subjects of interest on my wide angle photos. That's the reason for considering the 24 gm, wihcih would be too close I think to my voigtlander 35, thus the changing of this lens for a 40 o 50. I'm relatively new to photography, and I'm discovering my tastes still, recently I'm thinking I prefer shooting longer lenses, even for landscapes, (90, 200), than wider ones, that's also a reason for the change, is hard because I love my current set up, I laso have the cv 15, maybe i will substitute that for a samyang 18 mm, a lens i keep hearing marvels about.
I'm a really indecesive person so it's hard for me, I'm very grateful to you and fred and every competent and thorough reviewer out there for makeing it more easy.
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That's a pretty good set up you have now!
35 or 28 are I think the best focal lengths for environmental portraits; wider ones are a very specialised genre which occasionally works, but requires a lot of skill to make it work, and even them it's not going to be your usual case. That's why quite a few, I think, have sold their GM24. It's a great lens, but unless you are doing very wide enviro portrait or astro, the speed isn't useful, and you can get away with something slower for landscape, and perhaps you want shorter as well, though that's a matter of taste.
So I'd be very tempted, if I were you, to keep your L21. That works great for images with foreground interest, and you really don't want TOO much blur with those in the background, for one thing there is not enough DOF in the foreground for non-portrait subjects if you use a really fast aperture. And actually keep your voigtlander 35 for enviro portrait! You could switch to the 40, but it's not that much longer, and not much better (given you have the pcx for the 35) and that avoids a lot of gear switching and money loss to get a set up which while different (which can be fun and challenging) is not obviously better!
Minimise the churn! More time shooting!
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