Camera suggestions: Canon 5DmkII/Sony a7r/Nikon D800E/Nikon D7100

[coolhand78]

.. just reminded me .. a TS lens is something I've always wanted to play around with.

Looking forward to seeing some results with it all too.

yeah ive always wanted one as architecture is my thing so it'll be great to finally get to learn how to use them..! And I can't wait to see the results. I've already got a few locations lines up

You mentioned how you would like some nice bokeh shots of your daughter. One cheap lens is the samyang 135mm f2, just over $500 new

it takes nice shots. Google samyang 135 f2 Flkr and look at the samples. But it is manual only. Cheers.

thanks, I'll check it out I'm hoping the 50mm F1.4 might do the trick for a bit though

[arthurking83]

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thanks, I'll check it out I'm hoping the 50mm F1.4 might do the trick for a bit though

It should!

.. do even better than something like this ....
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That's at f/1.2 on a D300, which is APS-C so for similar framing a 135 format sensor will do better. I've found that the difference between f/1.2 and f/1.4 in terms of DOF is not much, or enough to justify added expense of the aperture simply for DOF. The advantage of the faster f/1.2 aperture is simply for the additional exposure leeway. Note that the Nikon 50/1.2 doesn't actually have good bokeh either.