Gear Question: 1.8 vs 2.8
Gear Question: 1.8 vs 2.8
Vague generalization, but 1.8s are often cheap plastic lenses. Whereas 2.8s are more often pro quality zooms.
The cheap plastic lenses can have awful aberration and muddy color and sharpness wide open, especially in low light, therefore to get the best quality out of your lens, you’ll probably be closer to 2.8 anyways.
1.4s, however, are much better lenses than 1.8s, and primes are generally better than zooms, but at the pro level it’s really hard to distinguish 2.8 primes vs 2.8 zoom.
With primes, I shoot around 1.8-2.2 often, and 1.4 in low light. 50 at 2.0 is probably my favorite look, but all primes look beautiful at 2.0.
Lastly, 1.4 to 2.8 is four times the amount of light transmission. That’s a big jump when you’re in the lowest light environments.
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