Lens Length Comparison

August 25, 2014 7:50 am - Published by The Photographer Within - 1 Comment
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When I was first starting out and contemplating my next lens purchase I had the hardest time trying to imagine what the difference would be from one lens length to the next. Do I need the 24-70 if I have a 50? And what about a 16-35? It was enough to drive me crazy!
All of the following images were shot with a Canon 5D Mark III at ISO 100, f/2.8 and SS 1/ 200 from a stationary tripod on my porch. The 400mm shot was shot with the 100-400 L which has a variable aperture which only opens up to f/5.6, so that shot is ISO 200, f/5.6. All shots are straight out of the camera with no processing; hence her AWB blue skin.

The lenses used:

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II

Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4

Canon EF 85mm f1.2L II

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro

Canon EF 135mm f/2L

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

And when you ask your five year old for a favor and tell her to put on something clean and cute; you get the Elsa dress Grandma made.
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Lynne RigbyLynne Rigby

Lynne Rigby is a wife and mother to five wonderful children. Before she began her photography journey, she was a kindergarten teacher, and as such, has a lifelong love of teaching. She began taking photos as a way to capture images of her son Paxton on the football field. While she could get some shots that she could never get with her point and shoot, she was still having problems with some pictures being too dark, or blurry, or funky colored. She started googling and reading, bought herself a “nifty-fifty” and taught herself to shoot in manual mode. And the obsession began! For the first time in nine years, she had a creative outlet for herself. She then started answering questions on a photography forum about the basics of shooting in manual mode and that morphed into a four week class about learning to shoot in manual. And so it began. She has since written 3 other classes: a Beginning Creativity Class, the Basics of Lightroom, and Style and Voice. She has taught thousands of budding photographers over the last four years and watching their progress reminds her of the joy in that kindergarten class a lifetime ago.

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