Best focal length ever and perhaps one of the top lenses ever made. Stick a Tiffen Black Glimmerglass 1/2 strength on it for your outdoor shooting and watch it's "clinical" come alive with character.

Thank you for the tips! I've been wanting to sell my photos as postcards forever. I did a couple of times and sold them at little markets, but I hadn't known about the Moo option. Thank you for your content and beautiful photographs/postcards!

Thank you for the tip about Moo. I forgot that they offered that option.

This was the first lens I bought for my Sigma fp L - Loved it from the get go, light, well made and sharp. I've just purchased a 85mm 1.4 DG DN and had it for now 2 months, everything you say, rings try. Very likely i'll sell the 85mm as the 65mm does everything the 85 does, while being lighter and smaller

Great Video

Could you give me information on how to set up a shop please?

Hey man. Would this be better than a cheap Amazon light for £40?

Good morning I just discovered your KZbin channel And you've inspired an ideal I have some 35 mm slides that have been in storage for some time that might just fit the bill for your ideal with moo I think this will make for a good experiment thank you again for the great content it's always nice to discover new stuff

Thanks for sharing

Hi, that's started me off now, I really enjoyed your video many thanks, keep going all the very best.

Me too!! Returning to film for personal work. What were we thinking!?

This is just for my kind of taste. Your forest photographs are just right. I very much photograph at random as well, and often. ( Almost all my photographs wouldn't sell, you know what we mean!? ) A lot of times just with my cell phone camera. Many times a cell phone is sufficient. I cant always wear my bulky Sony mirrorless . Oh, and lots of forest around where I live, in Northern Ontario. And selling postcards sounds grand. That's the search term that brought me to your channel. Still on planning stage for my website.. Haha. Thanks for your content.

thanks for bringing up this theme - I prefer the 65 mm in full frame because it is more useful in rooms and at nearer surrounding... if I have enough space and want this more "artificial" blurring and the separation I would choose a 105 or 135 mm lens (e.g. the 1.4 or 1.8 from Sigma, but also the excellent 105 2.8 macro)

I appreciate your insight on this so much. It will help me begin my business greatly! Hope you grow as a KZbinr soon enough.

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I do not think that a 65mm is an "odd" focal length. I have had a Leica Macro-Elmarit R 60mm 2.8 for many years, now I have the Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65mm 2.0 Aspherical which is an excellent Lens, built like a tank and it has outstanding image quality. I would like the new compact series from Sigma, but I do not like that they are so dependent of software to perform. I think a 60/65mm Lens is an excellent "do-it-all" Lens, it is very versatile for a lot of different kinds of photography. By the way, a Camera is a tool, not a jewelry !

thanks for the tips andy!

This is how I'm starting out selling my prints. Thanks for the information on printing. I have visted my local printers, they would print batches of 50 and they told me that the inks they use fade in sunlight. Not a great start. Good luck.

Nice one Andy … just got my new business cards from Moo , superb quality . I’ll definitely look into the postcard option . Many thanks Gary

I kinda like 65 too

lol Lecia. These ppl pay 9k for a body and 5k for each lens. I don't understand.

Excellent Advice. Thanks it takes time to build up sales of postcards, I know, I founded The Card Factor 🙂

Compactness has nothing to do with breathing. One of the smallest E-mount lenses has very little breathing.

Thanks Andy! Great idea about the postcards too. I love my photography but being a full time nurse and flicking my spare time between jewellery/lapidary and card making means my "spare" time is often sparse. This is a great way to combine my loves which I'd never have thought of so thankyou!

Great video. Got your name from Alex Kilbee’s Photographic Eye channel. liked & subscribed!

Hey Andy! Nice quick review... I use a few similar lights for my product photography and video work, and have found that even the 60W lights are surprisingly powerful. I have 4x Godox SL60W and 2x SL200W lights. They're single colour lights (daylight balanced) so, I know that they're always putting out either 60 or 200 watts. I also know that some of the older grid style LED panels used to mention combined power usage (60w when white LEDs are 30w and yellow LEDs are 30w), I suspect that this one doesn't work in that way, does it?

Decentering. I once had to get three samples of a Tokina ultra wide before I was happy. It’s such a time waster

I have ordered one. I used to shoot with sigma 56 and Sony aps-c, it felt, as you said, claustrophobic sometimes, and 50mm is not enough in terms of compression.

Thanks for the video, been doing photography as a hobby for 10+ years and never bothered to do anything with it in a professional sense. Met a photographer in my local park recently who mentioned all the ways they sell their photos and it really inspired me to chase it up. Postcards look like an excellent entry point. One thing I would suggest to people who don't want to setup a store front is contact your local independent shops if you have any near you. There's community shops in my area that already sell postcards produced by local photographers and I know of one shop that doesn't sell any - hopefully that'll be my entry point.

How do you advertise/ marketing them?

The 45mm and 24mm 3.5 both have great rendering. They remind me of my old Hasselblad Zeiss lenses.

What paper use for the post card

Thank you x this is lovely to listen to x

What is the brand model and price of your mic ..great information thx in advance

In shooting low lightnight time? Which is better sony 35mm 1.8 or the sigma 35mm 2.0?

Get to the point please

Thanks.

Thank you so much for this beautiful and honest video Andy. I got into landscape photography recently and always had this idea to make picture post cards but never really went ahead. Now after watching your video it gave me a good positive push to go ahead with my plan that I had. Thank you Andy. I have liked and subscribed to your channel, umesh ;)

thanks! very simple and informative, exactly what I was looking for :)

The thing is even for video it's bullshit. Just deleted my insta after last feed Update 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

Not only did you provide some great insight, you made me chuckle too. Well done! 👍

You’re right- this little lens does do a remarkably good job! Fun video.

Hey man thanks I think your video is very genuine to someone like me who is trying to start a new thing.

Thanks for the great video! Very informative!

Great review. Would you say this is sharper than the Fe 35mm 1.8? I like the rendering of the sigma 45mm 2.8 , so I am considering selling my Sony Fe 35mm for the sigma 35mm f2 because I prefer the rendering of the sigma contemporary line

Thanks for your see you next time!

Any thoughts between this and the Sony 55mm 1.8? I own a 35mm plus the Sony 55mm 1.8. Since owning the 35mm I have been using the 55 much less - I wondered if this 65mm might be a better pairing. I also own the Sony 85mm 1.8 but I do find it's too tight to use indoors a lot of the time.

Fun fact: Hugh Brownstone tested this lens at the same magnification level of Sigma's more expensive 85mm f1.4 Art DG DN and the 65mm out resolved it by a significant margin. It's that sharp! a must have in my opinion if you're looking for a less constricting portrait lens.

Awesome video. The website that I usually use to order my prints only allows packs of 26 postcards with a single image, so I'll definitely check this one out.

Beautiful shots Andy at that trash 58mm focal! Though I think it is more suited for object photography than landscape. And due to your symptoms thats definitely covid! But maybe you tested a bit late so it got negative. Or it can be long covid. Which I have and it really sux as it remains for long long time! It has totally decreased my life quality by fatigue and being sleepy. I hope you get better soon