I started this tread more as a "Think about" for fellow photographers who are thinking about this lens.
The 24mm f/1.4G is a pretty famous lens for its sharpness and has gained reputations for being the sharpness king at wide angles and big apertures.
But this is also a very expensive lens. Easily selling in Singapore for 2900 SGD. That is quite a BIG sum of money to invest into a prime lens.
As capable as this lens is both at yielding Bokeh (Blurry back ground effects) and sharpness, it may not be a lens for everyone and in the last 2 weeks, i am seen at least 4 ads selling the 24mm f/1.4G because it is under utilized and they are mostly placed for sale with running valid warranty.
Below are my uses for this lens, so a person who is attracted to the 24mm f/1.4G can use it as some form of a referrence tick box to tick "If this is what i'll use it for" and decide if there are better cost effective options. Surely, there are other uses that those listed below. Will be great for fellow users of this lens to add their application to the list.
Uses.
1) Landscape Photograhpy (Mainly overseas) where CPL and ND filters are required to compose the shot. Lakes, Moutains with Snow, Water falls, Sunset at rocky beaches, Panoramics. I do not have another lens at 24mm that can take filters. There are plenty of 24mm focal length lens out there that are very Sharp and can take filters. Example: 16-35mm f/4 VR, 24-120mm f/4 VR, 24-70mm f/2.8
2) Astronomy related photograhpy like Milky way and Northernlights. (No luck to get anything nice due to the weather/season when i travel although another opportunity is coming up this year and another one next year)
3) Photography that uses large apertures at f/1.4. Again, i do not own other f/1.4 lens. Typical uses are photograhpy of Food, Pet animals, People and shots that i want object isolation
4) Indoor architecture photograhpy that can be low light and where tripod is not possible. This is because i dont have a wide angle VR lens at 24mm, hence to reduce camera shake, shooting it wide open or f/2 at infinity.
Hope the above helps.
The 24mm f/1.4G is a pretty famous lens for its sharpness and has gained reputations for being the sharpness king at wide angles and big apertures.
But this is also a very expensive lens. Easily selling in Singapore for 2900 SGD. That is quite a BIG sum of money to invest into a prime lens.
As capable as this lens is both at yielding Bokeh (Blurry back ground effects) and sharpness, it may not be a lens for everyone and in the last 2 weeks, i am seen at least 4 ads selling the 24mm f/1.4G because it is under utilized and they are mostly placed for sale with running valid warranty.
Below are my uses for this lens, so a person who is attracted to the 24mm f/1.4G can use it as some form of a referrence tick box to tick "If this is what i'll use it for" and decide if there are better cost effective options. Surely, there are other uses that those listed below. Will be great for fellow users of this lens to add their application to the list.
Uses.
1) Landscape Photograhpy (Mainly overseas) where CPL and ND filters are required to compose the shot. Lakes, Moutains with Snow, Water falls, Sunset at rocky beaches, Panoramics. I do not have another lens at 24mm that can take filters. There are plenty of 24mm focal length lens out there that are very Sharp and can take filters. Example: 16-35mm f/4 VR, 24-120mm f/4 VR, 24-70mm f/2.8
2) Astronomy related photograhpy like Milky way and Northernlights. (No luck to get anything nice due to the weather/season when i travel although another opportunity is coming up this year and another one next year)
3) Photography that uses large apertures at f/1.4. Again, i do not own other f/1.4 lens. Typical uses are photograhpy of Food, Pet animals, People and shots that i want object isolation
4) Indoor architecture photograhpy that can be low light and where tripod is not possible. This is because i dont have a wide angle VR lens at 24mm, hence to reduce camera shake, shooting it wide open or f/2 at infinity.
Hope the above helps.
