Re: How Do I Select The Best Light/Small 24mm/25mm Travel Lens
MARKFER wrote:
I have had 3 lenses in this focal length on Sony E.
The 24gm is pretty small as far as 1.4 lenses go and is wonderful. It has nice bokeh and smooth rendering more so than intensely GMII sharp.
Loxia 25 is my best lens. It can make a dull subject interesting in the right light. Smallish but there is a lot of glass and it probably is as heavy as 24GM.
Sigma 24 3.5 is awesome on my A7C. The setup can dangle on my neck around my shoulder and it is not a burden traveling or hiking or sightseeing. I think the Sony 24G would probably be similar. If I were to travel with lots of walking and sightseeing that is your best direction IMHO.
The reason I am so interested in reading the responses is I want to get the Sigma 24 again. I really think that this focal length is a better bet than 35 for what your plan is. Wide but that distortion doesn't really creep in.
Most modern lenses don't have much if any distortion after built-in corrections. Some are of course noticeably hindered by such correction in terms of sharpness in the outer frame, but I think that it's mostly worth the compromise.
It's more about perspective distortion, and often one would need a much wider lens (and crop in) or a tilt lens, than otherwise necessary, if one wants their lines straight (90° to subject, though one can never be 90° to the whole subject at once). Of course there's also the nature of wide angles "straightening", the further one gets in to the corners, due to being wider than the sensor format. That's true, whether using zooms or primes, as many compositions might have a different aspect than what any format's aspect ratios provide.
Here, one can't simply zoom or move around, but must crop to a certain degree (perhaps check my Flickr to get a visual representation (perhaps the album 'København'), (not claiming that my images are wonderful)).
That's why I added the Laowa 9mm f/5.6 to my kit. Just as nothing is "long" enough for wildlife, nothing is "wide" enough for (some) architecture. Haven't used it for a while, as I switched to Fujifilm X for a bit, but I'm going to use it again now.
Re: How Do I Select The Best Light/Small 24mm/25mm Travel Lens
MARKFER wrote:
I have had 3 lenses in this focal length on Sony E.
The 24gm is pretty small as far as 1.4 lenses go and is wonderful. It has nice bokeh and smooth rendering more so than intensely GMII sharp.
Loxia 25 is my best lens. It can make a dull subject interesting in the right light. Smallish but there is a lot of glass and it probably is as heavy as 24GM.
Sigma 24 3.5 is awesome on my A7C. The setup can dangle on my neck around my shoulder and it is not a burden traveling or hiking or sightseeing. I think the Sony 24G would probably be similar. If I were to travel with lots of walking and sightseeing that is your best direction IMHO.
The reason I am so interested in reading the responses is I want to get the Sigma 24 again. I really think that this focal length is a better bet than 35 for what your plan is. Wide but that distortion doesn't really creep in.
Most modern lenses don't have much if any distortion after built-in corrections. Some are of course noticeably hindered by such correction in terms of sharpness in the outer frame, but I think that it's mostly worth the compromise.
It's more about perspective distortion, and often one would need a much wider lens (and crop in) or a tilt lens, than otherwise necessary, if one wants their lines straight (90° to subject, though one can never be 90° to the whole subject at once). Of course there's also the nature of wide angles "straightening", the further one gets in to the corners, due to being wider than the sensor format. That's true, whether using zooms or primes, as many compositions might have a different aspect than what any format's aspect ratios provide.
Here, one can't simply zoom or move around, but must crop to a certain degree (perhaps check my Flickr to get a visual representation (perhaps the album 'København'), (not claiming that my images are wonderful)).
That's why I added the Laowa 9mm f/5.6 to my kit. Just as nothing is "long" enough for wildlife, nothing is "wide" enough for (some) architecture.
Oct 08, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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