3 ms·
>> I was a kid and everyone was shooting "full frame" Ok, this is a little vague, because are you referring to digital or analog? When I was a kid, everyone w
by slantyyz 6y ago
>> I was a kid and everyone was shooting "full frame"
Ok, this is a little vague, because are you referring to digital or analog?
When I was a kid, everyone was shooting full frame, because, well 35mm was the de-facto standard for film. Although my first camera was a 110 format camera, which is a hair smaller than a 4/3 sensor today.
- foldr 6y agoI meant 35mm film.
- slantyyz 6y agoAh, ok, I wasn't sure if you were and oldster like me or a youngling who grew up in the digital FF era.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- Thrymr 6y agoAnd it was still looked down on by the medium and large format photographers!
- sudosysgen 6y ago35mm film already affords you the very maximum in light gathering and blur, though. The kit lens used to be 50 1.8 or 1.4, which really is pretty much the amount of background blur people are looking for today. You didn't complain about lack of aperture or blur because you already had what people today are looking for. Even medium format and large format had pretty much the same amount of background blur and low-light performance, just at a higher resolution.
- foldr 6y agoYes, but the point is that people rarely if ever used that level of background blur, as it wasn't trendy to, e.g., take portraits where only one eyelash is in focus.
- sudosysgen 6y agoReally? Because even really old portraits had huge amounts of background blur: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/aU4oh69TPgC0JrujNVvkOrTeH7Dh37ysBt6HrAMHqT-fFlVCaHJ-ZbDE2u-zd3qxtoXutrn9F-p9IvXl4u2LqbQgyZqeFWg4v1CSecuPkWpN_itze3BLmlYmxT1p4Qf4onGwv-kDgY_oAtjWYJksPZESDVWaJRGFQIlGejtEjI6U54shhDiIyrvy9CSsc2ZYHKzqBaw https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/aU4oh69TPgC0JrujNVvk... for example. Now of course, it wasn't trendy to take portraits with only one eyelash in focus, but the vast majority of people even on FF don't do that. On my 50 1.4 (a lens made for film cameras, btw) if you want to take a picture with such an extreme amount of blur you need to have your subject quite close to you. And there is virtually no one with a lens faster than f/1.4 nowadays.
- slantyyz 6y agoPeople today shoot and chimp, which was impossible back in the day. If you wanted a preview, you needed to have a polaroid around. Film and processing cost money, and took from an hour or to days to get back, so people would set the aperture in a more reasonable range.