Is This the Be-All, End-All Lens for Sony Wedding Photographers?

It turns out that the most important producers are hell-bent on making high lenses out of date, or no less than it kind of feels that approach with Sony’s unencumber of the brand new FE 50-150mm f/2 GM lens. Should marriage ceremony photographers chew?

When Canon first introduced its RF 28-70mm f/2 L USM lens, it was once a drool-worthy lens for lots of photographers taking pictures high lenses in that vary, doubtlessly changing a number of lenses with one (very massive) lens as a substitute. This supplies a number of advantages relating to weight, house, and price financial savings, however extra importantly, it signifies that photographers shouldn’t have to modify lenses when taking pictures, which saves time and ignored pictures. Still, as any individual who does not continuously shoot huge primes, it did not do a lot for me, and I went with my conventional RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS USM lens that I used to be very pleased with from the EF days. Wide primes aren’t my go-to lenses.

But Sony has introduced a lens that, for the primary time ever, has me questioning if I must take the plunge. In one fell swoop, the FE 50-150mm f/2 GM lens may doubtlessly substitute 3 key lenses that I exploit at all times: The Canon RF 50mm f/1.8 STM (that I prevent down just a little anyway for sharpness), the RF 85mm f/2 Macro IS STM, and the very outdated EF 135 f/2 L USM, which has been given a brand new rent on existence with advances in mirrorless autofocus generation. That’s a number of lenses to switch in a single shot however the Sony appears love it may conceivably do it, with the added bonus of going all of the approach out to 150mm at f/2. Where huge primes are not ones I exploit on a daily basis, those levels indubitably are.

Youtuber and marriage ceremony photographer Maciej Suwałowski, of Magic Wedding Photographer, were given to position this lens thru its paces all the way through a marriage images workshop he runs, and whilst no longer a complete box take a look at of the lens, he is in a position to get a just right really feel for what it would do all the way through that all-important portrait consultation portion of a marriage. He talks in regards to the execs and cons of this sort of distinctive lens. And whilst “unique” is a phrase that is continuously thrown round, this is really the case right here; there is no different lens with that a lot vary, with that huge an aperture, with this top of the range—if Suwałowski’s wonderful footage with the lens are any indication.

Ultimately, whether or not or no longer the lens is correct for marriage ceremony photographers will depend on how connected they’re to the “bag of primes” philosophy of taking pictures. Suwałowski explains his tackle that vs. the “one lens to rule them all” means within the video above, so test it out for his ideas and extra pattern footage.

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