Episode 60 - Prime Lens vs Zoom Lens | Which is the best?

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sweet let me put my glasses on geez yeah why I can see now now you can see

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clearly now yes I can see clearly now the snow is gone unfortunately yeah unfortunately yeah so like it was weird

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uh when I went to bed last night there was not a lot but there was more snow on

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the ground last night when I went to bed than there was when I woke up which is normally was coming a downpour yeah but it's I don't even know how that happened

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I don't know it melted off overnight with no sun or anything suns were low

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like I don't know where it went the only thing I can accredit to accredit it to

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would be the fact that the ground was probably a little still a little warm yeah I mean because we've had some warmer days and then it was also pretty

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soggy too it was a soggy snow that's fair but like we went to bed and we're like ree is going to be excited oh Stoke

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levels were way up is going to be excited uh and then we wake up and I'm like oh shoot where did it's where did

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this snow go I did enjoy that two-hour delay though yeah I did enjoy that I know the kids enjoyed it uh we got some

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extra time with them this am we got out and um enjoyed the half centimeter snow that

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we did have Reese was excited to to get out there very disappointed to learn that she did not in fact have enough

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snow on the ground to build a no man yeah no no man's today uh were there were no mans today yeah absolutely no

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mans to be built so hopefully one day we'll get but it's a sign of what's to come hopefully hopefully I hope we get

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some snow this winter listen the the dad got none last year no the dad burn mountains this morning though phenomenal

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gorgeous so I was driving in mixing with the color of fall it's like clashes I was driving in and I hated the fact that

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I did not have uh my zoom lens same um

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because there was this perfect perfect composition mhm and I and by perfect I literally

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mean perfect we had a mix of seasons on the bottom of the mountain there's still some Fall Foliage and we had snow capped

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up top but the way that the the light was peeking through little spots on was

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only hitting the color side so you had this kind of like cooler more dark deep

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ominous snow in the background with the beautiful Fall Foliage being illuminated

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and unfortunately the only thing I had on me was my little Fuji with a 23 mil which well is

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not is not a 7200 I'll tell you what else is not a 7200 and that is One

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Singular shot of Kodak gold in a 6x6 roly flex no which is what I pulled over

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at 53 mil right at yeah right at some mil uh I pulled over in Ben mcin tur's

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uh business parking lot shout out MC Turf and MC Turf Rock Holland on the Chucky Pike on the Chucky Pike I pulled

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over in that driveway and and fired off my last shot at Gold cuz I saw that same scene yeah um it probably won't turn out

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but I have a very eloquent caption if it does um so stay tuned who knows stay

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tuned stay tuned yeah well you may see it on the gram you may not it may be crap hey so that brings me to something

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that I didn't mean to to mention yeah um but we're here talking about things that

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may or may not happen and you shot it with potential intention of posting it

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yeah you even got a caption oh I've got the caption already down like already already ready yeah my camera roll is

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full mhm of photos that probably will never see a lot of day but I took oh yeah

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spent time editing processing all those things with the intent of posting it to

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social media and why they have not been posted to social media I can only say I

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can only say the only reason it's not is because in order to post them all I

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would have to post multiple times per day yeah um which do good to post once a day well

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this is why over on the Tik Tok specifically I've been doing photo carousels because I've I've had that same issue of oh I've got all these

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beautiful edited images but I'm just freaking lazy and don't post them on a daily basis so yeah might as well post

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five at a time in a carousel yeah well I mean you even do that on Instagram Instagram now because we've changed the

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algorithm again they're rewarding carousels oo there's your social media hot hack

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tip of the day I'm currently still being you're still TI talk viral so you don't care about Instagram still being no

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Instagram I'm still being rewarded for a particular real um that I'm really not sure why it

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has taken off it's just a lot is it the white balance one uh no it's setting your white and your black points yeah

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that's the one that's the one with the alra option key why would that not be viral you know that's my question because I thought it was something that

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everybody knew already I was like I'm going to share this but I'm sure I'm going to get people saying dude I've

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been doing this for 10 years I know that I know that trick you know I'd say to that post why not why not that post I

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mean it has 31k views on phenomenal Instagram not to not to count like the

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700 bagillion that you have over on Tik Tok from it Tik Tok that one is my most watched Tik to video viral you're viral

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don't understand anyways virality um but yeah so why do I take

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all these pictures with the intent of sharing it social media and then it never makes it social media don't know I

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don't know probably for the same reason that I spend you know whatever amount of dollars on a roll of film shoot the roll of film develop the roll film scan the

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roll of film and then it doesn't see the lie to day if I do that it's probably because

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the the photos just didn't turn out well yeah I mean there's that too yeah there's that too because film does have

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that it does have that poti especially with me at the helm I'll go ahead and tell you I'm not

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going to that's that's another story for another day a fun story nonetheless not fun at all we've all done it but yeah

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instant feedback not something you normally get with film but uh I have found a way to do that and I'll talk about that later but today I was

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disappointed yeah that I did not have my zoom wi so much to the point that if the temperatures don't change I may try and

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capture that photo tomorrow that that beautiful may try and capture that tomorrow with the appropriate lens So

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speaking of of things clashing Seasons clashing colors clashing one thing in my past that has clashed has been my energy

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and Focus levels in relation to my caffeine consumption Clash from the past Clash from the past we'll call it see

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that uh you know as a longtime friend/ business partner I've struggled with my caffeine habit uh in the past upwards of

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up to, 1500 milligrams a day at times dang yeah just just to feel normal I think the daily recommended is no more

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ters Jared get us to the meet and ters yeah actually it's an interesting thing that I I

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see asked on social media a lot um and just in general get asked a lot and it's

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it's a question that I myself have asked at various times but it's basically what what is the difference between a

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zoom lens and a prime lens why would you do one over the other so basically today we're going to talk about zoom lenses

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versus prime lenses juicy which is fun get a battle going in the comments below I've been waiting for a good battle that

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well this may this is a bit polarizing who you talk to um so well we'll just

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start with zooms um because generally when you purchase a camera it's going to come with a kit lens which is going to

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be a zoom um so it's you're not going to come as a shock to you that the zoom

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lens is super versatile right uh even a kit lens at least from a focal link

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perspective super versatile I mean it's multiple focal lengths uh yeah most of

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your kit lenses are what like an 18 to 55 or I know some of them are even like a 55 to 200 got a lot of different

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lenses within that one barrel so you've got just massive versatility like you

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could go 24 to 105 which is generally an F4 um which isn't that fast but it's at

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least constant throughout which is going to be an improvement from your variable aperture but I have a 24 to 70 and I

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bought it really early in my career and I've taken care of it and I still use it Con constantly today so lenses are great

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Investments period but that 24 to70 on it it's really cool because with the Canon uh 24 to70 that I have it has a 24

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marking a 28 mm marking 35 50 and a 70 so that's five lenses that well that's

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it that's marked not counting all the ones right not all your in between focal 53 millimeter or whatever 40 you know

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but all of those are already marked on there because they're common focal lengths and you have all that in one

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lens yeah so being able to cover from 24 mm which is pretty wide all the way to

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70 mm which is starting to touch to telephoto lens got some versatility there super versatile super super

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versatile very versatile uh so with and and specifically too with the 24 to 70 one

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thing that I I love about that that specific lens is a lot of those

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uh a lot of those are stabilized a lot of your kit lenses are your 24 to 7s are

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your 24 to 105s so that's another thing with variable or with uh with zoom lenses is a lot of them are stabilized

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and all that means is it's going to reduce some camera Shake yeah as you're out there shooting so lower shutter

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speeds lower light things like that it's going to keep that image steady so that you reduce the chances of having a

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blurred image yeah well so the the I guess I guess one of the cons of a zoom

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link m is they're pretty costly they are costly even on the used Market on the up front

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on the up front but if you if you break it down how like what it would cost you to buy all of those primes even just

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those five primes I was going to say the value proposition though I don't think it's a con well again right off the bat

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up front cost yeah for sure it's it's an expensive cost like you could get couple primes in some cases for the price of

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one of those zoom lenses but if again if you tried to buy all five of those F way way way over the mark way in excess so

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they are they are costly up front but value proposition again just with the versatility and all of the focal links

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I'm terrible at math but whatever 70 minus 24 is how many focal links is that that uh 70 minus 24

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is 45 potential lenses yeah basically uh

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is what you have with one yeah so you don't have to change the lens and you've got and you've got all those fens and

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really again if we're if we're talking about exceptional math here let's say that you bought those five prime lenses even on the used Market at an average

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cost of let's say $700 Pere if you're getting quality if

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you're getting quality primes we'll say $700 times 5 that's $3,500 that you would have to spend

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versus getting a used 24 to70 or my Canon which is the version two EF

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there's three EF versions and now even in the RF line that's more expensive but my version to Canon ef4 70f

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2.8 I bought used from KH for I want to say it was like 12 or 1300

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bucks something like that I got my 24 to70 Tamron which is you know the the Tamron version of your lens I got it for

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800 bucks on KH there you go so I mean it's value proposition on a zoom is out

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the roof it is now another con to it is it is slower yeah it is generally going

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to be slower versus your primes like until very very recently Canon now has

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an RF version that is an F2 they were mostly as fast as possible

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with an f2.8 which is pretty fast especially if you're coming from a kit lens

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perspective f2.8 is pretty fast compared to the 35 to 56 but you can get primes

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that are 1.2 1.4 1.0 even I've seen a few for any who's new we're talking on

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aperture here so like how wide your lens opens up the the iris in the middle think of it as the eyeball which lets

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more light to the sensor right um it also controls what's in Focus that's faster just means it lets in more light

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yes whenever we're talking about that so so they are generally slower compared to

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their Prime counterparts um which may not be the end of the world but know

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that you know f2.8 is not f1.4 correct correct well and and specifically when

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you're getting into like a quality Zoom I think one of the big advantages if you're thinking well I've got a kit lens

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it's a zoom one of your big advantages with a quality Zoom is it is going to be a fixed aperture so if if you've ever

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taken notice if you're zooming in on a kit lens and as you zoom in your image starts to get darker right that's

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because those lenses as you zoom they close the aperture yep okay but with a

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quality Zoom like a 24 to70 F28 they're going to stay at 28 throughout the whole

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Zoom range so you're going to keep the same amount of light hitting the sensor it's not going to darken your image any right just some some things to think

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about if you are wanting to even upgrade from a zoom to a higher quality Zoom yeah um they're going to be fixed after

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most of your kit lenses for whatever reason there's probably a mechanical reason but yeah I think it's just an they're 35 to 56 they vary uh they're 35

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on the wide end yeah uh and on the tight end they're all the way into 5.6 versus

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an f2.8 which is f2.8 at 24 millim and it's also f2.8 at 70 mm so like you

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don't have yeah it's it's very handy uh and definitely an improvement if you're coming from a kit lens yes the other con

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if if if weight is a problem zoom lenses are generally

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decently sized well they have so many glass elements in them yeah they have way more glass elements in them they're

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kind of heavy compared to a prim LS yeah especially if you get like a an old

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school like 70 to 200 that are all all metal construction they're about 3 feet long yeah so they're physically going to

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be bigger and they're physically going to weigh more in most cases so if weight is a problem for you you don't want to

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be lugging around an ex or a heavy lens or don't want to hold a lens that heavy

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all the time you know note that uh zoom lenses are generally heavier yeah yeah they're just going to

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have more weight to them but I mean the versatility of them literally is is is

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is unmatched unmatched so like depending on what you're doing zoom lenses may be

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the call but also primes may be the call yeah so like pros of a prime lens and

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what a prime lens means is if if you don't know what this means it basically means that it is a fixed focal length

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one focal length one focal length does not zoom this lens is a 35 millim period

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does not zoom does not change it's 35 um they are generally sharper yeah they're

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generally sharper um because they don't have moving Parts they're generally

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sharper they have fixed glass elements they are they're typically sharper and they're typically faster yeah on that on

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that note as well and we've talked about that kind of with the zoom lens but like I have I have an 85 and it's an old EF

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Mount but I have an 85 1.8 yep I have a 50 1.4 yep and I have the sigma art 35

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MH 1.4 y the fastest zoom lens I have is an f2.8 so I've got three lenses right

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there in my bag that are already a stop already a whole stop of Life faster than

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the zoom lens well and as you get into your more premium primes too you go all the way down to f1.2 some of them are

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f95 so like so much light is Led in at that point in time that the only the

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only thing to be cautious of there is yes they are sharper yeah but harder to acquire Focus yeah I mean you've got to

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have yeah you've got to be you've got to be really good at nailing your focus and

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uh whether that's through having good autofocus uh being good with your Servo

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points whatever um yeah focal plane certainly small at 1.2 yeah that's what

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we call shallow depth of field that's what gives you that beautiful creamy bokeh in the background that everybody

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loves they love to blow out their backgrounds so they're sharper and they're faster um and because of them

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being fixed focal lengths they're generally lighter yeah they're usually smaller and again there's less glass

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elements in them yeah and I wish I had brought my two like I could have brought a 35 and a 24 to70 and physically shown

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you the different sizes uh but they're generally smaller yeah um so if size is

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an issue or if weight is an issue uh maybe maybe at that point you're

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considering uh prime lenses as as your uh in your kit um now on to the cons of

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a prime because it is a fixed focal length literally the only way for you to change your

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composition is to do one of two things you can either swap lenses yep go to a longer lens or a shorter lens or what

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you want to do you move your Fe yeah you are the zoom at that point in time whereas right here at 24 to 70 I could

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shoot you without moving my body and feet M at all kinds of different focal lengths yeah how many was yeah whatever

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you want to do 40 something 45 uh 45 focal lengths versus if I have a 35 on here yeah I can't shoot a different

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photo unless I move right or change lenses soang on a second you said 70 minus 24 right yes yeah 46 ex me yeah

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not 45 so 24 to 70 is 4 potential focal links um and we'll talk about the in

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between focal Links at the tail end of this video when we we kind of help you with the decision that you may be having

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to make but the prime or the the the con of a prime literally is the only way to

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change your composition yeah you're limited to your movement or changing the lens lens which in some cases you

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physically may not have time right you may not have time in a crucial moment of sorts if you're shooting weddings or if

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you're like a running gun documentarian for uh photographer like you may not have time to make that switch cuz things

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are happening that you have to capture right then you can't say wait carry two bodies with two different

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lenses or you move your feet um so on the con side of things what this may

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mean in some cases is if you're if you have a 50 which 50 is my favorite focal length for anyone wondering it's a 50

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but close second would probably be 40 yes yes um actually a perfect lens for

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me probably be like a 43 or 45 but all right Mr Leica hey it's a fun focal

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length anyways let's say I have a 50 on the front of my lens or on the front of my camera the 50 is lens I have a 50 on

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my camera and I'm in a scenario where I need to get wider to fit all the subject

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in the frame whatever the subject is but I'm at the back of the wall

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physically cannot back up further TR you're in trubl trouble yes 50 is I mean

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that's that's that's the con potentially of a zoom and and that sometimes does present itself yes of a prim L sorry

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excuse me however if I had my 24 to 70 and I had been at 50 most of that day

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because I like to live there retract it a little all I do is back out to any any

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focal length all the way back to 24 so it there that's really the only con I

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could say to primes is is they're not as versatile they're not as versatile Speedy with work purpos well and again

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too with when we talk about features uh most of your primes are not going to be stabilized either no that's true so that

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that's one thing to consider again with it being faster if you are shooting wide open um and you're already worried about

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acquiring Focus just understand you're probably going to induce a whole lot more camera Shake because it's not stabilized especially at longer focal

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length the the longer you go on the focal length 50 70 85 135 yeah you're gonna have more camera Shake because you

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physically can't hold it still enough 85 is a very common focal length uh portraits and stuff like that so that's

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a good one to think about and that's pretty long you you depending upon your shutter can definitely impact sharpness

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of that photo at 85 mm it's less of an issue with wider lenses yeah yeah wide lenses not a lot of camera shake your 24

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is your 35s heck even 40 and 50 typically can be held pretty steady but soon as you start hitting 70 yeah gets

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it gets a little harder to hold them a steady unless you're just like a dead bur statue well but stabilized lenses

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especially coupled with some halfway decent Ibis which is image stabilization the cameras have you can have a whole

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stop and sometimes more yeah of stabilization to Aid in you know letting

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the appropriate amount of luminance hit the sensor um so that's something to also think about primes I don't I don't know that I've ever seen a prime that's

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stabilized I don't think there is one um I mean there may be but I know obviously the bodies are like our our Lumix bodies

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are stabilized so like that that happens but I don't know of any prime lenses that are maybe somebody can put one in

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the comments blow if you know of it that'd be cool cuz I don't that'd be cool that would be cool um but all this

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came about because literally this week or last week a few days ago whenever it

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was someone posed the question of zooms versus Prime yeah the P group

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specifically want to know like hey what are if you like primes what are your favorite focal links and why and I think

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that's a decent question to to be asking but I also think that it may be the

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wrong question to be asking and the reason why I say that is because my favorite shoe in size yeah May differ

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from mine well it's probably not going to fit your foot well what's what's funny though is is specifically in in the group you know everybody chimes in

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with well this is the one that stays on the front of my camera this is the one and it's like well again that's good for your situation yeah but I I think

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there's something and Jared you actually have a YouTube video on this specific subject which I would lead people to

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because I think it's great video um but you have a very a very good tip on how to discover what your focal length may

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be yeah and it's simple I mean it really is it's going to take some time but I also think that it's more important to

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find a shoe that fits your foot yes Cinderella I.E a lens that fits your style and your

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natural eye for composition or or four lenses I mean whatever your whatever whatever you're whatever it is but like

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whatever you can swing if you're someone who's looking to buy lens and you're stuck on a Zoom versus a prime maybe you

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want to go Prime to save the weight uh potentially save a little bit of money all those things but you're not sure

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what focal link to get right I think what you should do is rent a you can rent one for cheaper if you go a 24 to

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105 if not rent a 24 to 70 or heck borrow it from another

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photographer and don't worry at all about the focal length right just shoot just go shoot yep just go shoot and

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shoot the way that you would shoot and do multiple session shoot

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whatever style you shoot I mean I'm seriously don't worry whatever about what focal length you're you're landing

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at because that that comes after shoot three or four sessions whatever then take all those photos into

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Lightroom and through the metadata I believe if you hit I on your keyboard Twice first one's going to be like date

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and time but you're going to get the metadata of the metadata shutter speed your aperture and focal length this is

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where it comes into uh this exercise becomes really helpful just note go

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through pick your favorite images go through pick your favorite images note what focal lengths you uh landed at with

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that particular lens that is a great tip well and it may not be 50 on the nose it

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may not be 35 on the nose but if you land at 37 mm that's a point in the 35

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mm bucket you're going to start to hopefully maybe and you may not we use our third grade math skills here in

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round you may start to see a specific focal length sort of rise to the top she

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shines through it's like oh I spend a lot of time at 48 mm 53 mm 50 may be my

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move 50 is the way that my like me I spend a lot of time at that 105 I might

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you may you may need to get a longer lens but all that to say if you look at your photos and the ones that you enjoy

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yeah those are going to be the ones that you felt the most natural with anyway the way I compos an image is different

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than some people for instance I have to challenge myself to shoot especially horizontally with like for because I

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really struggled to simplify a scene with a wide millim lens most people do and isolate the subject some people some

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people are great at it like popes yes they're great they're great at it uh Peter McKinnon exclusively used the 24

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mil for years he used it for portraits which was wild wild yeah I find that I

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can compose images the way that I prefer the easiest with a 50 minute but I know

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that because I've well you've spent enough time shooting I've spent enough time time to and even with my 24 to 70 I

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will find myself frequently in the metadata 47 mil 48 mil 52 mil like

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hovering around that 50 mil that's just where I like to be in relation to distance to my subject all those things

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so if you do that exercise and you you really want a prime lens that should

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help you isolate which one you and most people are going to be fine with like a 35 or a 50 those are the two common ones

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but if a 50 it's your workflow rocket by the 50 rocket by the 50 50 is a great

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focal length yes 50 is a great focal length it's it can be wide and inclusive wide enough but it can also be tight

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with minimal to zero Distortion yep so anyways that's my favorite focal length and that's how I have learned that I

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prefer 50 yeah and I think that tip really helps too because if you have somebody who is so on the fence about

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what to buy they may discover like hey I I land on a couple different focal length

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in which case you might want that Zoom you may want that 24 to 70 so it it may answer the I think actually that will

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answer your question uh fairly speedily if if you are wondering well gosh which should I get if you liked a hundred of

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the photos total from that set and you don't have a clearcut winner yeah then

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you know yeah buy the zoom L because here's the thing I constantly use my 24 to70 yeah for professional word y

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sometimes I take a prime out um but I also love of again the versatility that

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a zoom lens offers yeah um with speed of workflow I mean I've got tons of other

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lenses but the downfall is I've literally got to change the lens in order to use a different lens well I

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think you and I have both mentioned in the past that the 24 to70 specifically is the Jack of all traits I would call

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it the master of none master of none but I I can take that lens into any any

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situation get whatever I want photo video whatever that's that's a I actually remember this is I don't know

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if you remember this or not but when you were looking at purchasing a lens you were really

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heavily influenced and this was this is current YouTube State vlogging was huge

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casy neat Peter McKinnon they had first blown up I wanted the 16 to 35 you

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wanted the 16 to 35 which is wide yeah really wide great for vlogging yeah and

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and looking back on that in my wisdom now um I would have hated that lens cuz I spend almost no time that wide no

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unless unless I'm actually walking around vlogging your preference is certainly tighter composition but I

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remember well even just longer focal length period I just I like I like having a little more compression typically yeah well I remember you

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mentioned in the 16 to 35 I was like ah I don't know dude the the 24 to 70

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certainly not as wide but but it has almost all those has almost all those

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and it's and so yeah you ended up with the Tamron 24 to70 secondhand and have

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it still using so again it also kind of depends on the application and what you

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want to do if you are have any desire to shoot Sports I would not buy a prime lens no

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not to shoot Sports now if you want to shoot portraits on the side sure get you a prime lens if that's what you want but the versatility the versatility you need

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a zoom and the speed at which you can change compositions and focal links you need a zoom lens now if you're a portrait photographer again do that

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exercise figure out what which focal length you prefer to work at and yeah if you're a portrait photographer in studio

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like you you know we can go ahead and take a wild guess as to why 85 is going to be your

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favorite yeah because it's like the portrait lens of portrait lenses but yeah if you're stuck on the fence of

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trying to figure out why you should buy a zoom or a prime I really think that exercise can

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help anybody and again you can do it for free try before you buy yeah try it before you buy if you've got a photographer that you look up to that

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owns a 24 to 70 see if they'll let you have it for a weekend yeah and then literally go shoot a bunch of things and

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then see what you like and see which one you like see which focal links you land at I think uh I think that would help

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tremendously I think all these tips are things that uh would be good to consider in making your decision uh certainly

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helpful there are also Jared some things that our audience can do yeah that would

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be helpful for us what are those leave us a review yes uh on any of the platforms uh give us yeah give us a r

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stars and bars as we say listen you can't uh you can't fix what you don't know is broken so if we're broken uh let

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us know let us know in the com let us snow o nice hey also I want to know in

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the comments below because I really I'm waiting for a battle to break out in the comments I think that would be hilarious I want to know what your favorite focal

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length is and why yeah also I want to know if you're a primer or a Zoomer and

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why yeah I would love to know that as well let us know all those things it was interesting I would dare say the

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clearcut winner in that particular group's comment section 3514 was the 35

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but that there's an asterisk there they're all portrait photograph I was going say you've got Bonnie and Melissa

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in there who I know that 35 stays on the front of their bodies like and that's great and here's the thing like you can

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just to to quickly recap you can make any lens like work for you you can make

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it do what you want to but if it's not natural for you like if you struggle like I could I could be a portrait phot

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phographer at 24 mil yeah like it can take portraits yeah you're just going to be up in their nose with the camera and

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it's also not my preferred like look way of looking at the world all those things

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so like it just it's if it's not if there's friction there MH don't do it

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then don't do it don't do it so again maybe you're maybe you're that 85 person

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who can just I can shoot everything on 85 yeah might as well might as well but I do I want to know those things leave

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yeah I'm going to go have some chili we'll see y'all later oh he didn't make that hard at all see y'all