This lens

https://7artisans.store/products/50mm-f1-05

is a fantastic wide aperture lens which is commercially available, affordable and a great value. Personally I tend to get bored if I am walking around with a 50mm lens but with that lens, the challenge of manual focus, the ability to take photos with hardly any light, and the ability to take dreamy photos like people have never seen I have so much fun. They make it for all the major camera brands.

Overall I am impressed with Chinese lens manufacturers who make other lenses like

https://www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-9mm-f-5-6-ff-rl/

which again are a great value and let me take pictures you haven't seen before.

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/tagged/9mm

• zimpenfish

  today at 11:44 AM

  I've got the 7A 35mm f/1.2 in M43 which is pretty nice for a walkaround lens.

  I'd probably opt for the 50mm f/1.2 since it's 1/3 the price of the f/1.05 (£90 vs £260 for the M43 mount) if I didn't already have double-digit number of 50s in PK mount that I use with an adapter (and they're surprisingly good for 30-50 year old lenses.)

  (I've got a 7A 10mm f/3.5 that I've not really got around to using much but now the UK is heading into Fake Summer, there's more light to make it useful.)

• fennecfoxy

  today at 10:53 AM

  Manual focus I keep for film, I feel like it's a part of the process.

  But I do wish my Sony 50 was a little less noisy/slow. Suppose I should pick up the GM version at some point.

I think next-level would be a hypercentric lens that can see around / behind objects as build buy Applied Science: https://youtu.be/iJ4yL6kaV1A?si=QG7YfeXkOqzoK46O

what if I want the opposite effect?

I hate blur, how do I remove all of it?

• CarVac

  today at 11:57 AM

  Focus stacking.

• dbspin

  today at 11:41 AM

  Shoot at a higher fstop with a sensor with a high native ISO, like 12,800.

  • adzm

    today at 11:45 AM

    The trade off is so much noise

• 4gotunameagain

  today at 11:32 AM

  pinhole camera and an insane amount of light.

  Or, multiple exposures and HDR.

  • nimbleal

    today at 11:45 AM

    Not sure how multiple exposures helps?

    Smaller sensor, tighter aperture. So yes, more light or a more sensitive sensor.

    • SoMomentary

      today at 12:09 PM

      They must mean by creating a composite image with multiple in focus areas? Otherwise I agree, I can't see anyway that multiple exposures would help, at least from some light reading on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_exposure

> Now, here's the kicker:

Come on now.

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