Normal is sensor diagonal, standard is nifty 50 territory - so 40mm eg FoV isn't a standard lens.
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40mm is a sort of awkward short telephoto.īack in the late 50s/early 60s camera makers tried to sell photographers on 55mm or 58mm f/1.4 "normal" lenses because they were easier to design and manufacturer than shorter f/1.4 lenses, but photographers pushed back so hard that camera makers worked long hours and came up with a series of 50mm f/1.4 normals, a tradition that carried on for a good half century. The sensor diagonal is only 28.8mm, so that's your "normal" lens. It's called an 50mm f/1.8 and it's so much smaller and cheaper than a janky 25mm f/0.95.Ĥ0mm if you want a standard lens, or wait for the DX 24mm if you want a wide angleĤ0mm really isn’t a "standard lens" on DX. "You don’t have lenses like that on FF!" Well, we do.
I remember all the crowing from the four thirds crowd when Voigtlander brought out the 25mm f/0.95. The problem is that a lot of those faster alternatives are bigger and heavier than their FF equivalents.
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To me the 28mm on 1.5x crop is a near ideal focal length, a near exact match to the 28.8mm diagonal.Īs has been said already, if you want a fast lens in this focal length range there are third party alternatives as well, some of which are faster than any of these (though the fastest are manual focus, which I find fine with my Z7II but does depend on what you are using them for). Voigtlander announced a 75mm f/1.8, which at 112mm equivalent would be a pretty good medium portrait lens, kinda like rolling a 100mm and 135mm together.īetween 26 and 28 I'd probably slightly favour 26, but I'd wait until I'd seen some reviews of the lens, especially since it's almost twice the price of the 28. (perhaps if my remaining 1.5x crop camera were easier to focus manually). I used a 58mm f/1.4 Voigtlander a lot on my 1.5x crop factor cameras as a replacement for my 85mm, but I can’t remember shooting my little friend in the last ten years. It was APSC and four thirds that rekindled interest in that range. Then a honking 70% leap to 85mm, and then back to a more conservative sequence 85, 100/105, 135, 180mm. Look at the common sequence of lenses, we have 20-30% jumps through the wide to normal range: 18, 20, 24, 28, 35, 50mm. It's just not an easy length to work with. I made the observation many years ago that the range around 1.5x normal (60-70mm for 35mm "full frame") is a "hole" in virtually all lens lineups from 35mm to medium format. For me personally (you may differ) 40mm on DX isn't attractive: that's a 60mm FF field of view, which is one of my least-used focal lengths.
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