Re: I Don't Like Shooting Wide Focal Lengths....What's Wrong With Me?
Nothing wrong with you AFAIK. We all see different things.
I have found that using a "wide" takes some learning. After I bought my 35mm f/2.8 S Auto around 1974 I found I rarely used it. I was so used to having a picture's subject be closer and more the center of attention. A wide-angle lens makes everything seem so far away. (A lens' FL really just determines the size of the image on the film or sensor. By making the image of the subject smaller a short FL can capture more stuff on the sides. It doesn't actually change the perspective, which is determined solely by the camera's position.)
With a digital camera much of that is different. Depending on how much you want to crop and resize, which depends on what you want to do with the picture in the first place, as long as you have enough precision (and within limits of course) you can extract part of an image and get the same picture as if you had started with the larger image produced by a longer FL. The short FL captures more if you want it, but you don't have to keep it all.
If also depends on the kinds of pictures you take. Landscapes require a short FL but also require vision lest you just get shots already taken a thousand times by others. Capturing a sense of place can be incredibly difficult. As with wildlife shots, you have to be in the right place and also keep your eyes open. Here are two pics I took two days ago with that same vintage 35mm that I found I rarely used 50 years ago. I like to think I see things differently now. Someone gave me a vintage 24mm, oops, I mean a 28mm (actually labeled 2.8cm) recently and through I've used it I have not come to understand it yet.
Re: I Don't Like Shooting Wide Focal Lengths....What's Wrong With Me?
Nothing wrong with you AFAIK. We all see different things.
I have found that using a "wide" takes some learning. After I bought my 35mm f/2.8 S Auto around 1974 I found I rarely used it. I was so used to having a picture's subject be closer and more the center of attention. A wide-angle lens makes everything seem so far away. (A lens' FL really just determines the size of the image on the film or sensor. By making the image of the subject smaller a short FL can capture more stuff on the sides. It doesn't actually change the perspective, which is determined solely by the camera's position.)
With a digital camera much of that is different. Depending on how much you want to crop and resize, which depends on what you want to do with the picture in the first place, as long as you have enough precision (and within limits of course) you can extract part of an image and get the same picture as if you had started with the larger image produced by a longer FL. The short FL captures more if you want it, but you don't have to keep it all.
If also depends on the kinds of pictures you take. Landscapes require a short FL but also require vision lest you just get shots already taken a thousand times by others. Capturing a sense of place can be incredibly difficult. As with wildlife shots, you have to be in the right place and also keep your eyes open. Here are two pics I took two days ago with that same vintage 35mm that I found I rarely used 50 years ago. I like to think I see things differently now. Someone gave me a vintage 24mm recently and through I've used it I have not come to understand it yet.
Re: I Don't Like Shooting Wide Focal Lengths....What's Wrong With Me?
Nothing wrong with you AFAIK. We all see different things.
I have found that using a "wide" takes some learning. After I bought my 35mm f/2.8 S Auto around 1974 I found I rarely used it. I was so used to having a picture's subject be closer and more the center of attention. A wide-angle lens makes everything seem so far away. (A lens' FL really just determines the size of the image on the film or sensor. By making the image of the subject smaller a short FL can capture more stuff on the sides. It doesn't actually change the perspective, which is determine solely by the camera's position.)
With a digital camera much of that is different. Depending on how much you want to crop and resize, which depends on what you want to do with the picture in the first place, as long as you have enough precision (and within limits of course) you can extract part of an image and get the same picture as if you had started with the larger image produced by a longer FL. The short FL captures more if you want it, but you don't have to keep it all.
If also depends on the kinds of pictures you take. Landscapes require a short FL but also require vision lest you just get shots already taken a thousand times by others. Capturing a sense of place can be incredibly difficult. As with wildlife shots, you have to be in the right place and also keep your eyes open. Here are two pics I took two days ago with that same vintage 35mm that I found I rarely used 50 years ago. I like to think I see things differently now.
We all see different things.
