135 is better than enough. Get a 150 only if you do pack-shots (the knocked-out product on the right of the body-copy, to answer another thread)
135 is better than enough. Get a 150 only if you do pack-shots (the knocked-out product on the right of the body-copy, to answer another thread)
I have a wide 150mm - a Rodenstock apo Sirona S - which has a field of view almost as wide as the Nikkor 120mm f8. If I had to buy it over again, I'd probablt go with the 135mm Rodenstock apo Sirona S.
Lenses longer than 150mm tend to be bigger; shorter than 150mm tend to have less coverage. And there are more choices in 150mm.
You don't need a 150mm lens unless you want one.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.Originally Posted by Steve Feldman
Seriously, you'll know if you need a particular size lens. You'll need it when you find that you can't capture some images that attract you because you don't have the lens you need to capture them. If that's not happening to you, then you don't need another lens.
Bruce Watson
Only if the 150 has significantly large image circle than your 135, and you need the extra coverAge.
The 203 f7.7 had a little brother. 170mm f7.7 and in UK they used to come coated and in size 0 shutter. Killer. No, you don't need a 150. Too ordinary. Think magic bullets man.
I had a 135, 150, and 210. I used them all.
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
My own plan has been to have only a few lenses spread apart by 2x, and to make them the best quality I can afford. If you really need a lens, you wouldn't be asking us here. You would know it.
Kent in SD
Personally I think most people would do better photos with one slightly wide lens and one slightly long lens. Like a 90/210 or 120/180 combo.
The reasons people think they need the extremes is some sort of phobia. How many really good, memorable 4x5 photos have ever been done with 58s and 400s? two or three?
You really just need something that renders wide and something that renders long, and camera position (walking) does the rest. And if the freaking client wants more, then stitch or crop!
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