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Like our Lithuania wedding photographer. I've never owned a camera lens anything quicker than F/1.8 but primes which which are faster like the :

Canon EF 50mm f1.2L
Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM
Canon EF 85mm f1.2 L USM II

and etc, do they allow images to be much more brighter than something like a F/2.8 or F4 equivalent?

Obviously there would be some or alot of PP going on but how much details can a camera and lens actually capture before the processing fills in the gaps?

Hope I make sense in what I'm trying to ask.
 
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to get at but from what I think I understand you're asking if lenses with bigger apertures produce better quality images than lenses with smaller apertures?

Yes and no is the answer........

Having a bigger aperture allows for better low light images where you might be able take a shot without using a flash and/or increasing the ISO which could introduce noise.

f2 allows half as much light in as f1.4 and would give you less DoF. If you were taking a portraiture of lots of a group of people you'd probably want to use a higher f/stop to get all of them in focus.

But given a situation where lots of light's available, the image quality will be down to which lens has the better quality optics, not necessarily which lens has the bigger aperture.
 
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F2 lets less light in than and F1.4. bigger the F number the smaller the aperture so the less light it lets in.
 
Before you look at investing in expensive prime glass to achieve what you want, read up & watch as many videos as you can about understanding light. While you are walking about, keep your eyes open for interesting light effects, look at the conditions there and think how you could use it.

A nifty fifty would be a great place to start as well, you don't need super fast glass for it.
 
Russ77 said:
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to get at but from what I think I understand you're asking if lenses with bigger apertures produce better quality images than lenses with smaller apertures?

Yes and no is the answer........

Having a bigger aperture allows for better low light images where you might be able take a shot without using a flash and/or increasing the ISO which could introduce noise.

f2 allows half as much light in as f1.4 and would give you less DoF. If you were taking a portraiture of lots of a group of people you'd probably want to use a higher f/stop to get all of them in focus.

But given a situation where lots of light's available, the image quality will be down to which lens has the better quality optics, not necessarily which lens has the bigger aperture.
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Thanks for the info, so ideally if going for a Dof composition shot getting as wide as F/1.2 would achieve this perspective but it reduces the amount of light entering the sensor. If getting the exposure right then shooting arounf F/2 would be able to achieve that vision? Just amazed still how our Lithuania wedding tog gets so much light in his pictures.
 
no, shooting at 1.2 would give you lots of light entering the camera, and you are correct, an incredibly shallow DOF.

Chose the Aperture to get the DOF you want, then use shutter and ISO to get the correct exposure.

use this http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html to figure out what DOF you get with what aperture, at what focal length on what camera. :)



Lots of light <--------------------------> Less light
f/1.2-------f/4--------f/8--------f/16--------f/32
 
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Harvey_nikon said:
no, shooting at 1.2 would give you lots of light entering the camera, and you are correct, an incredibly shallow DOF.

Chose the Aperture to get the DOF you want, then use shutter and ISO to get the correct exposure.

use this http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html to figure out what DOF you get with what aperture, at what focal length on what camera. :)



Lots of light <--------------------------> Less light
f/1.2-------f/4--------f/8--------f/16--------f/32
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Thanks, will have to consider what primes to get if i want to achieve that bright look effect.

I rented an 85mm F/1.2 for a wedding over the summer and this came out.

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Only adjusted some detail but not touched any curves or exposure.
 
That's a lovely photo :)

A lot of the effect you are after is rooms are areas with lots of natural light, as well as knowing how to photograph it :) I'd say its much less about the lens until you want a shallow dof :)
 
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