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Aesthetic characteristics of prime lenses

Aesthetic characteristics of prime lenses

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Aesthetic characteristics of prime lenses

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- Now, we've talked about a lot of benefits when it comes to using a prime lens, but I think it's important to talk about some of the aesthetic reasons to use this; it really is a conscious choice that you need to make, as a photographer or a director of photography. And Jim, of course, I think we've already really nailed the benefit of the shallow depth of field, that's one aesthetic choice, but it opens up all sorts of other choices. For example, I love sometimes being able to use a macro lens stopped down to F-22 so it's really tiny, so I can do things like longer exposure, if I don't have a variable ND filter with me, or the ability to get really long starbursts if shooting a photo of nighttime and I've got street lights, or other lights and I want those to become elongated, sometimes having those smaller aperture controls are really nice and the prime lenses work well. But you have lots of reasons that you choose these, don't you? - Yeah, and it's funny, a lot of this aesthetic…

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