Possibly the best straight to the point, top of the line tutorial. I have a wedding gown commercial shoot and was contemplating sticking with my 50mm or renting a 35mm lens in order to capture the whole grace of the gown without cutting anything out.
I got the most information from this video. I've checked several and FINALLY it's put out in a sensible and visual way that truly demonstrates these two lenses. Thank you!!
Definitely love 24mm for landscapes, and love 35mm for portraits. I would own multiple copies of each focal length if that's all I shot! Plus timelapse too, nothing beats a sharp 24 1.4 for timelapse work...
The 35mm focal length on a full-frame camera is my favorite for general subjects. When I need something wider, I have paired it with a 20mm, 21mm, or 24mm. My personal favorite pairing is the 35mm f/1.4 with the 21mm f/1.4 on my Leica M6 and M10 rangefinders.
I've been shooting with a 24 and 35 for years now. I have a 15 and 20 but I only use them for interior work. It's great having it explained why I possibly might be doing this tho. I never found the 85 thing interesting enough. Video also those two lenses work well.
A couple of years late in commenting, but... I began shooting way back in earlier film days (1970's). f1.4 wide angles were not yet available, with the 50/1.4 being the only lens available as a 1.4. And the 1.4's in the 1970's and '80's were really awful wide open. The 1.4 served only for easier focusing. You still had to stop down a bit for better sharpness. Also, back in the day, the 28mm wide angle lens was the top choice wide angle, and usually the first wide angle that a photographer would purchase. In a sense, it is a single compromise between the 35 & 24. However, today the 28 seems to have lost its popularity. The 35 was always simply considered a "wide" normal lens.
I absolutely love my 35, 1.4 🙌🏽📷🔥 But have been eyeing a 24, 1.4 lol 🤔 Even tho I already have a 16-35, 2.8 for landscape and environmental portraits. I know it covers these ranges but I absolutely love that prime look 🤤
theFATEfactory Omg this is exactly the same situation I’m in!! Thinking of trading either my 35 1.4 or 16-35 2.8 for my friend’s 24 1.4 for a few weeks, just to see how i like it! 😆
hello, and what is your feeling now ? i hesitate between 35mm and 24mm. 35mm seems to cover more situations with less distorsions. i already used a 35mm 1.8 with my old d300 DX (so like a 50mm on FX) and it was gorgeous.
I absolutely love the cinematic look of the prime 24mm. It's just so close to 35 that I haven't added it to my workflow.... Maybe I should change that. 🤔
Thank you for this video! Too many people these days think you can only shoot portraits with telephoto lenses, and the result is too often voyeur like isolated photos that lack any kind of context. They claim wide angle lenses are not flattering to the subjects, but as you have shown the result can be extremely flattering and interesting. As long as you know what you are doing and don't put the lens right on the subject's nose for a headshot wide angle lenses can be amazing portrait lenses with a great presense. Personals the 35 mm is my favorite focal length.
I get the 24mm STM for video, yet I have not gotten the oportunity to use it for a serious video, but i have been using it in many photoshoots and Im kind of impresive. I may consider it an all around prime lens, so versatile like a zoom lens, but at just a single focal lenght. The 24mm cut off to looks like a 38mm seems like a sweet spot. It is a wide angle lens, it keeps that separation from background, the little exagerated perspective, but the barrel distortion is nicely controled due to the 1.6x cut. Is distored, but in fullframe could be a lot more as it could be a lot more wider, but its conversion makes somehow tight enough to shoot once you go closer, but also focus nicely near so you hace a pseudo macro lens. This tiny lens does so many things, sure, it lacks of any way of specialized capabilities, but it shows your point of how well is a 24mm lens lml
Nice. I especially like the creative veil work. I don't have a 24, but do have a good 20 and of course a fine 35....which pairs nicely with my battered old D700.
Why i love 24mm On Sony A7RIII = 24mm 1.4 full frame is 42 megapixels and in crop mode it becomes super 35mm but at 20 megapixels. So that’s 2 focal length in one lens. 😎😎 Technically you wont need to buy 35mm lens if you got 24mm.
Jason Lomeda, I’ve never understood the 70mm end of those zooms. It’s a useless focal length, IMO. 24-85 makes more sense, but those are always poorer kit lens quality.
Very interesting. Here I was thinking that 85mm was too short, and that maybe I need a 70-200, but then you show we don't really need extreme focal lengths for extreme background blurs to make great pictures.
2:23 is a good reason to get 24 f/1.4. What's the lowest shutter speed used to get a night shots that would have well lit up background along with subject on foreground? I usually set Shutter speed at 1/15, but I use Image stabilized lens. Would image still be sharp when taken with 24mm f/1.4, handheld? Or smudge is inevitable? 3:33 image is not sharp. There is background separation and contrast, but image is not sharp. 3:56 Did you use the flash or light? At this dusk time I'm very much doubt that people on foreground would be illuminated with natural light considering that sunset is behind.
super tuto. many people promote 85..200mm for portraits without distorsion of face. i dared to use 50mm on my d750, never below. how do you avoid distorsion of faces ? you mention you place subject at center but lot of your examples have people offset to the left or right, not centered at all. i have read that 24mm 1.2, 1.4 is nice for cityscape at night to grab the colored lights of scenes.
I enjoyed the video very much as I too love these two lenses. One thing though, can you site the mike out of your face? I don't know about others but I find it in the way and automatically keep moving my head. Again thanks for the video, loved the pano with the bright door silhouette.
For sharpness and better contrast would you get sigma art 24mm or nikkor 24mm 1.8 g for a Nikon d-750. I am also starting night photography of the milky way.
I'm a longlonglingtime photographer and Pye has ALL my sympathy and admiration (and no grudges) I dont get the sens of conviction at all one should supposedly get from the samples ( 3:20 for one minute statement ) as to the low-light advantage when f2 or f2.8 would still alow these photos to be done from the shutterspeed point of aspect.
@Pye Jirsa - So when you shoot at f1.4, and your focus point being the subject's eyes, dont the other parts of the subject go blurry from the centre of the focus point? Also, when shooting portraits at a distance using 24 / 35 / 50mm prime, at f1.2, f1.4, f1.8 , only their eyes seem to be in focus and not the remaining parts of their body... Could you tell me as to how that can be sorted out?
Amazing video. Do you think similar results can now be achieved with the new RF28-70 f2.0? I noticed you shot at 2.0 in several cases on those primes. I had the EF 24 1.4 and lived it but I just needed the money to replace all my EF lenses by RF ones…
So if one is shooting with a crop sensor Fuji camera, to get the same field of view, 16mm and 23mm lenses should be used' correct? BTW, I enjoy your video tutorials !!!
I agree that 35mm and 24mm are my favorite wide angle focal lengths. 35mm is more interesting than 50mm and 24mm takes in enough to be interesting and noticeably wider than 35mm. The next stop for me would be 16mm which I consider to be ultra wide.
