A Visit to Bamberg

 

I start to fall in love with this lens. There is so much you can achieve with such an ultra-wide which would not be possible otherwise. 

I took it on my recent trip to Bamberg. To walk around comfortably, I tend to take only the camera and the lens on the camera with a shoulder strap. Usually, it would be the 50mm f/1.8. There is so much that can be done with a nifty-fifty. And if object isolation and low light are no issues, the 24-70 f/4 will do just as well, and it is more flexible.

But this time, I dared to take the ultra-wide for a day. I was rewarded with special pictures and a look that cannot be achieved with anything longer.

As you see, the lens works in dark situation too. I restrict the ISO to 1600 all the time. There are scenes where the aperture mode selected 1/10 thinking this would work with a 14mm lens. It does not, unless nothing moves and you have a steady hand.

I also start to get used to distorted buildings. But if slanted verticals are in the picture, they must be really slanted, not just a bit. This feels like looking upward which matches the impression I had on that spot. It is also the impression that this building is trying to exert.

I still not sure if panoramic views with little foreground really work. In any case, remove the boring stuff by cropping the image into broad landscape format.

This is a great lens, and I certainly going to explore it a lot more, indoors and outdoors. Does it help to get more interesting photos? Not really. But it sure adds pepper to the scenes.