So. My nifty 50mm F1.8 STM Canon lens on my SL2 yields a focal length of 80mm. Do yall think that is too “zoomed in” for daily use?
So. My nifty 50mm F1.8 STM Canon lens on my SL2 yields a focal length of 80mm. Do yall think that is too “zoomed in” for daily use?
You must have some rather odd landcapes where 50mm replicates how you see the world.
This isn’t a particularly good photo, but the spot does have some potential if I ever care to be up there when the light is nice: https://imgur.com/a/meBXBAT. I shot that with the 80 mm equivalent lens on my phone to capture “here’s what this spot looked like to me in the moment.”
50 is generally considered “normal,” and I think that’s more-or-less correct for within 20 feet, but I’ve found that I (and as far as I can tell most everyone does this) tend to narrow my perceived field-of-view when I am focusing my eyes at infinity.
From a photography standpoint what this generally means to me is that the things that correspond to “that’s pretty, I should take a picture of it” frame nicely at ~80 mm focal length. When I’m trying to capture something best captured at wide angles I need to fuss with foreground elements for composition, and I know it won’t feel like an eyewitness shot.