30mm f1.4 prime lens - what would you use it for?

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I'm wondering why you'd have a 30mm prime in your lens bag. I have not really used a prime apart from a macro and wondering what a 30mm would be used for. General walkabout? Landscapes? Portrait?

Interested in your thoughts.
 
I have one ( sigma m43 ) - for me I use it to achieve similar DoF to when I used to shoot Nikon. I bought it because it is cheap new and offered me something that the Olympus 25mm f1.8 didn't really. BUT I appreciate that it's perhaps an odd focal length

For me, I use it for the kids and at car shows. Not wide enough in m43 for landscapes or walkabout really
 
On a full frame camera the 50mm focal length is considered 'standard' is cheap to produce well and produces great images.

With crop cameras, there was a shortage of correct focal length lenses to do that job, so Sigma built the 30mm 1.4, Nikon have joined in with a 35mm 1.4 at a reasonable price but the nearest Canon get is a 35mm f2.

Basically it's a fast std lens for a crop camera.
 
Every day walkabout on a crop sensor. It's pretty much bang on standard/normal focal length as Phil hints at.

At least that's what I used one for, YMMV.
 
Phil V said:
On a full frame camera the 50mm focal length is considered 'standard' is cheap to produce well and produces great images.

With crop cameras, there was a shortage of correct focal length lenses to do that job, so Sigma built the 30mm 1.4, Nikon have joined in with a 35mm 1.4 at a reasonable price but the nearest Canon get is a 35mm f2.

Basically it's a fast std lens for a crop camera.
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Assuming you mean F1.8 as the 1.4 version is 1200 quid.
 
Sigma did a 30mm f1. 4 for aps- c cameras e. g. Nikon Dx it was OK, patchy quality of Sigma, you get a good one or some get a bad one. Focus would be critical. I tried one for street photography but found it too long and focus a bit hit and miss. To be fair I was trying to use it low light/evening but didn't take to the results. Found the Nikon 35mm f1. 8 better and cheaper but still too long.
 
I had the Sigma 30mm f1.4 and used it on a Canon 20D and it was excellent and the only thing I could say against it is that the focus ring felt a bit gritty but I tried another in the shop and it was just the same so I assume that's how there were, excellent but with a slightly gritty focus ring.

I used mine exactly as I would a 25mm on MFT or a 50mm on FF, pretty much for everything, and indeed today I have a 25mm lens for my MFT cameras and 7 50mm lenses for my FF camera :D They're all slightly different though :D
 
Meh..1200 quid...meh...art...blah blah :snaphappy:

Oh how you've changed :tumbleweed:
 
Sill there, rolling around in the bag. How's the wrong filter doing ?
 
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