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0utf0xZer0 · 2012-04-01, 15:09

@escimo: How did you stage that to get it to get away with a low shutter speed at that angle?

As for primes, for my purpose - cosplay photography at conventions - the ability to do background blur would be useful because there's often limited opportunities for good backgrounds at convention sites. However, there's a couple issues (aside from costs as I don't actually have an SLR body at the moment so it would get pricy:
1) I tend to like to give my subjects some "space" and hence tend to shoot a lot at 24-36mm equivalent.
2) When I do shoot 50-ish mm, it tends to be in conjunction with wider 24-36mm shots. As a general rule, I wouldn't count on cosplayers to hold the pose while I swap lenses.
3) As mentioned, on most budget SLRs a 50mm prime is actually 75-80mm. It's unusual for me to use focal lengths that long unless I'm shooting down on the subject from a balcony or something like that.

In conjunction they tends to put a bit of a damper on the idea of using a 50 prime for my shoots.

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0utf0xZer0 Pretentious moe scholar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Vancouver, Canada Age: 37	@escimo: How did you stage that to get it to get away with a low shutter speed at that angle? As for primes, for my purpose - cosplay photography at conventions - the ability to do background blur would be useful because there's often limited opportunities for good backgrounds at convention sites. However, there's a couple issues (aside from costs as I don't actually have an SLR body at the moment so it would get pricy: 1) I tend to like to give my subjects some "space" and hence tend to shoot a lot at 24-36mm equivalent. 2) When I do shoot 50-ish mm, it tends to be in conjunction with wider 24-36mm shots. As a general rule, I wouldn't count on cosplayers to hold the pose while I swap lenses. 3) As mentioned, on most budget SLRs a 50mm prime is actually 75-80mm. It's unusual for me to use focal lengths that long unless I'm shooting down on the subject from a balcony or something like that. In conjunction they tends to put a bit of a damper on the idea of using a 50 prime for my shoots. __________________ Signature courtesy of Ganbaru.