What's your most used focal length?

tim.bennett · May 27, 2016

20mm(40mm equivalent) on my mft and 50mm on my nikon F65.

DarkShadow · May 27, 2016

600mm X 1.5 Crop is my everyday walk about.

Rye · May 27, 2016

Very interesting. The primes definitely rule the roost.

1: 420mm (300mm + 1.4x extender - a lot of bad/missed shots)
2: 100mm
3: 50mm

I always thought my 24-100 was the most useful but maybe I should dump my zooms and just use primes.

sscarmack · May 27, 2016

70-200 2.8, even though I haven't had one in about a year haha.

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jcdeboever · May 27, 2016

As of yesterday based on 9,123 images on digital, my overall average is 138 mm.
Portraits are at 86.4 mm
Street / candid are 35.3mm

I keep track of it in a spreadsheet. I noticed that I have a very low keeper rate. I need to improve in so many areas but my focus today is at the longer range 500mm

zombiesniper · May 27, 2016

500mm

480sparky · May 27, 2016

I have not the ability to track such a metric, nor the inclination to do so.

So I'll guess and say 135mm.

baturn · May 27, 2016

500mm

dennybeall · May 27, 2016

About 65mm for me. But, only by a bit. I'm all over the place, from 10mm to 500mm, since I retired.

medic2230 · May 27, 2016

Highest number at a given focal length was 70mm.

nerwin · May 28, 2016

Very interesting...mostly everyone is shooting more telephoto than wide.

Solarflare · May 30, 2016

I dont have lightroom but considering

(a) my first prime lens is 28mm
(b) my digital comrade is a 28mm (Ricoh GR)
(c) On my 16-35mm f4, the most used focals are clearly 28mm and 21mm

I would say its safe to assume my most used focal is 28mm.

TCampbell · Jun 1, 2016

I strongly prefer long focal lengths. My most used focal length was 200mm (via my 70-200mm f/2.8 lens) and this was no surprise to me. Subjects that might normally strike you as deserving a more "normal" focal length at a normal working distance... I tend to prefer to use a much longer focal length and back up a lot. I really prefer the look of an image produced by long lens even when the subjects are not typical "long lens" subjects.

gckless · Jun 3, 2016

35mm for me, which makes sense since my 35mm prime was my sharpest lens for a long time and didn't leave the camera. That's followed by 18mm, and 17mm right behind that. I have a feeling that will be swinging towards 200mm+ by the end of the year though.