Q&A

What is a 24 105mm lens good for?

What is a 24 105mm lens good for?

With the 24-105mm, you can carry one lens of high quality and moderate size, and shoot with it all day. It will handle landscapes, urban, street, and people photography really well. As such, it is almost ideal for taking on the family vacation, where you will likely encounter any or all of these scenes.

Why does every photographer need a 24-70mm lens?

Arguably the most important benefit of the 24-70mm lens is its versatility. The range offers limitless possibilities, with an added boost of immense adaptability in the face of various photo shoots. You can easily go from a wide angle to a zoom with this beauty, acclimating as quickly as your subjects change.

Do I need a 24 105 lens?

While many landscape shooters prefer ultra-wide angle lenses in the 14-24mm range, or will opt for a 24-70mm mid-range zoom, Iversen believes a 24-105 is the better choice. Less foreground, more background – Ultra-wide angle lenses can capture dramatic foregrounds, but they often sacrifice the background.

Why is 24-70mm so expensive?

Aside from the quality aspect, it’s expensive because it’s the only 24-70 F2. 8 range zoom lens with the manufacturers fastest focus system (USM). Sigma and Tamron do not make a 24-70 type lenses with HSM etc. Also, it is weather proofed, has an excellent lens hood design and is built to last.

Is 24-105mm good for portraits?

The 24-105mm lens is a perfect walk around lens and is a pretty good option for portrait photography. The wide and telephoto range of the lens provides plenty of choices for your composition.

Is the 24-105mm good?

In our testing on a sub-frame camera, the 24-105 ranged from astonishingly good at 24mm to merely excellent at 105mm. At wide angle, this lens is exceptionally sharp from corner to corner, even wide open.

Is 18 55mm better than 18 135mm?

The 18-55 is worse than the 18-135 wide open at 18mm, but there’s not much difference between all three at 55mm. By 135mm the 55-250mm is significantly better than the 18-135mm in terms of C.A.

Can you shoot portraits at f4?

Re: Is f4 enough for portraits? f4 would be OK depending on your subject to background distance (you might want to frame your subject relatively tight and make sure you have a good distance between your subject and background). 2.8 would be a bit better though for portrait work.

Which is the best Nikon 24-70mm F2.8 zoom?

24-70mm f2.8 zooms are the workhorses of photo-journalists, portrait and wedding photographers, and almost every manufacturer has one in their portfolio. For owners of Nikon FX-bodies the two main choices are Nikon’s own AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED from 2007 and Tamron’s new SP 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD announced in 2012.

Which is better Nikon 24-70mm or Tamron 85mm?

When you compare those three zooms based on technical data alone you’ll end up with the Nikon 24-85mm and the Tamron vying for first place: both are cheaper than the Nikon 24-70mm, both have image-stabilization and the Tamron also has the larger aperture (2/3 – 4/3 of a stop). But the Nikon has a 21% longer reach.

Which is better Tamron lens or Nikon lens?

But this time Tamron was the first to add a very valuable feature to this type of lens: image stabilization. It’s still 30% cheaper than Nikon’s offering and thus is a very attractive alternative which might also be interesting to Canon and Sony users.