40 Is The New 50 (Street Photography)

[@davidmccammon1766]

As a beginner photographer I love these videos. Gives me ideas

[@DylanSpitz]

Great video, buddy. The shot at 14:44 has to be one of my all time favorites of yours. Something special about it.

[@darry_lavis]

I have a similar ideology to you- if I can get one great photo (impactful, meaningful, whatever that means) when I go out to shoot, I generally walk away feeling accomplished

[@snapsbyfox]

Yeah! The more you shoot, the luckier you get too

[@steveconnors3233]

Great video as usual Rome Love your insights and just about everything you say is helpful Thankyou 😊

[@spambobspampants]

Same

[@scopelandyard5792]

in germany we say "Der Weg ist das Ziel" it means, you accomplished your personal mission when ye go out and take the shots...Completely indifferent to whatever comes out in the end.

[@ChristineWilsonPhotography]

Agree one or two shots from the day if your lucky, keeping g a 1000 or whatever from the day just fills up your hard drive. In saying that I generally don't know what I've got till weeks later and will edit a days shots over weeks and delete as I go.

[@Whatreally123]

the footage from the Pocket 3 looks fantastic. Lovely piece of kit from DJI.

[@photoferretuk1787]

@12:20 - agreed. worst case its a stroll with a smoke, a coffee and a mind at peace.

[@thegoodthingz]

I was already interested in the viltrox 27 1.2. Looking forward to read your blog

[@chesslover8829]

Roman, love your videos! You have given us a master class in street photography. Wonderful!

[@otiswoodard7391]

I am really enjoying this series of videos with the different focal lengths and you walking around and shining a light on your process, technique, and thinking. You taking a whole day to do this for us is amazing. Oh, and seeing you with James Popsys was great in your 50mm video from Lisbon. I’ve bought your X-T5 set up guide and can’t wait to use it today. Be well and keep up the great work. Very inspiring.

[@nohandle-01]

Beyond watching you work your 40mm magic, I am so impressed with your long day stretches - 12 hrs is a slog! Also that morning light was gorgeous - and those relatively empty streets. Learnt lots. Thank you 🙏🏾

[@GordonAspland]

Great video, you have some good keepers here. I like the way you use layers in your pictures, it gives a real feeing on depth.

[@VirgilTheCreative]

The lighting is beautiful, I would have a great time shooting in that. Great video.

[@Bo.Lively]

Thank you! I learn from each video.

[@danbradley5811]

One of the things I like about your videos is that sometimes I don't like (or wouldn't have taken) some of the photos you took. This then allows me to ask "why don't I like it/why wouldn't I have taken it?", which then becomes a new learning point for me - you never ask these questions if you only watch videos containing photos you like (for me, landscape photography). The rest of the things I like about your videos is that you take some very imaginative pictures, and explain your thought processes, which is great for someone like me just starting to shoot like this. Thank you 😀

[@bsw78]

Amazing video! Can't believe how many amazing shots you got here. Each one blew me away. Off to watch the video again 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@xtra9996]

My all time favourite lens for street photography is the Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f 1.2. It's fully manual so you have to get used to zone focusing for typical street photography style. But then build quality and image quality is outstanding.

[@slalom1987]

I've been shooting for 3 years on multiple panasonic MFT kameras with the 20mm f1.7 (40mm equivalent) great focal length

[@scopelandyard5792]

ye're one of my fav yt'ers... brilliant work and inspiring to go out and "waste" my time ;) cheers from germany

[@smarthousetech8593]

You're on fire this month. You always take great shots, but these I could see myself hanging up on my wall.

[@emmanuelpower2439]

Great vid. Thank you. I love the attitude towards the keeps. I never worry about that, and am happy with even one good shot on a day. It's the pleasure of looking and shooting I enjoy.😊😊😊

[@СержТомский-ы7и]

thank you, Roman, for sharing your impressions with us)

[@JasonMoody]

I have the ttartisan 27 2.8 and like the lens. Still jump back to the Fuji 23 f2 many times, snappy autofocus.

[@washingtonradio]

I thought your comments about how many "keepers" and "keeper rate" is spot on for a digital camera. It's more important to go out and shoot and get proficient than one's numbers, practice will naturally improve your 'keeper rate' anyway. Also in many genres one doesn't have control of the lighting or the subjects so there is an element of 'hit or miss' on given day. Some days it feels like everything is a keeper and other days it feels like nothing is a keeper.

[@petermcginty3636]

Thank you Roman (and Eren) for the video. I loved your comments about your "keeper ratio'. I am still learning how to use my gear and I was getting upset that I had too many crappy shots - not any more! Thank you! It really was a fun video. 🎉

[@Unique1Nick]

Thanks for taking us with you. Great video as always.

[@streetphotographyguy]

Fantastic insightful video as always dear Roman!

[@BlancGivre]

You're back (from Portugal?) ! Cool video. Many Thanks Roman.

[@MitchWebb94]

Currently waiting on the Voigtlander 27mm F2 Ultron pancake so this was timely

[@snapsbyfox]

I'm still so tempted by that lens

[@JacobNates]

I’ve been waiting on the black Voigtlander on BH! Got this Viltrox and love it, but felt overkill last time I tried street with it

[@A1-Odyssey]

I used to shoot m43 and the 20mm(40mm equivalent) was one of my most used and favorite lenses

[@ajblitzstein7628]

Terrific video, Roman. I learn something each time that should improve my street scenes.

[@JanMFigueroa]

Roman! I love this type of videos. Keep them coming, please🙏🏼

[@drewselby1]

I really enjoyed the 50mm video, and this was also fantastic! I like seeing the specific focal lengths and just comparing best uses for each, I hope you continue this series! Also, phenomenal photos per usual, London looked lovely that day.

[@jghetto85]

Sooo glad I have just found this! I will learn so much from your videos :) Thanks :)

[@cpznl.]

I was wondering if you would ever try this lens and, there we go! Nice video Roman!

[@LordPhilOne]

I did enjoy the video. Love your take on photography and the fact we don't see the features of the passer-by in your photos. It's very considerate. Love the photos too! Cheers.

[@darksideemt]

Really appreciate all I have learned from watching your videos. I never thought of doing reflection pics but now I look all the time for possible shots. I will be back in London in 2 weeks and can't wait to get some Christmas decoration shots as this is my first time over while they are up.

[@DanaPushie]

Hi Roman, this is me living vicariously through your video. Loving it. I feel like I gain so much from your channel. Thank you for sharing your experience, insights and process.🙏

[@atandon6003]

Thanks!

[@Navid7h]

Thanks for your tip @6:00 ❤

[@marlenelandstravels]

Great video, and that DJI pocket 3 is amazing for this kind of vlog, I am defo getting one haha

[@andrewcroft2570]

Great vlog, with some excellent advice.

[@MaxR.]

That's what I was talking about in our 50mm Video. 40mm rocks!! I have the 40mm f2 Pancake on m Nikon Z5 and love it.

[@iaincphotography6051]

The guy in the hat and the washing windows. I was wondering what Eren was doing out in daylight then it went to night. 12 hours on the hoof, good effort.

[@po.ntandshoot]

elite analogy of the gentleman at Bank

[@s.j.stuart]

Roman, at 7:33, you could've resolved the exposure differential by shooting an Exposure Bracket, then masking out the brighter exposures for the sky, while leaving the nominal exposure for the ground. You'd get no ghosting, and you'd have a beautifully exposed image throughout.

[@dominikschreiner6062]

Dude, waaay to complicated for a street shot. You want to catch the moment, be ready to turn your camera every moment. Way easier to just expose for the middle, bring up the darks and bring down the highlights a bit in post than to fizzle around with hdr. Looks pretty shitty most of the times anyways imo.

[@s.j.stuart]

@@dominikschreiner6062 Respectfully disagree…. It’s as simple as switching the camera into AEB (or BRK/BKT) shooting mode and holding the shutter release. It depends what you’re after, of course, and HDR shots only look shitty when people don’t process them properly (or worse, massively over-process them) if you’re just getting a wider dynamic range into balance, you need only stack the exposures.

[@obersteunduntersteschublade]

Really great video with good pictures and useful advises. Keep going your work. And you have a new subscriber 😊

[@wilfs1196]

Always look forward to your videos, Thanks.

[@briankennerley5833]

Quality videos Roman, very inspiring

[@bennyk6705]

Couldn't agree more - I've always been a 50mm shooter but now use the GF 50mm (roughly 40mm equiv) on my GFX for street. Loving have the extra bit of room in the frame!

[@MWRtelevision]

I actually love my Sigma 40 1.4 on full frame, I always found 50mm a bit too tight, it’s such a versatile focal length, even for portraits the low distortion characteristics make it perfectly usable and you get to keep in lots of background. Really interesting video.

[@A1-Odyssey]

man I have been thinking of that lens for AWHILE I think i may rent that mofo at some point

[@rumblebunz8081]

got the same 40 sigma f1.4 for canon ef mount and love it when pairing it w/ the metabones ef to x mount ultra speed booster/focal length reducer for that extra stop of light! heavy as heck though ahaha

[@DrFurb]

I'm confused as to why we discuss the camera and lens. Nothing is taken straight out of the camera and posted on KZbin. Everything is graded or manipulated in some software. You could shoot this video in any camera with a cheap lens, stick it through lightroom or Di Vimci and it might look slightly different and but post will still make it look better. Or am I missing something?

[@adunford2664]

Like the reflections shots

[@ruff1draft]

Great to see you and Erin together

[@HaroldVonAnusIII]

On a day like this with lots of shadows, do you use multi metering (or whatever the Fuji equivalent is for Canon Evaluative metering) exclusively?

[@rexgigout1472]

Well-done presentation! This is a useful tutorial on street photography, in a city much denser than my nearby cities in Texas. As for the angle of view, I was using a Canon EF 40mm STM lens as long ago as 2012, and when I shifted to Nikon for general walking-about, soon added a Nikkor 45mm f/2.8P and a Voigtlander 40mm SL II. These 40mm and 45mm lenses relegated my 50mm lenses to reserve status, for quite some time.

[@karlivanr]

I knew it! I knew just how good the 27mm is on the cropped sensors because I always find 35mm too tight on my X-T2 =) No wonder I'm currently enjoying the 25mm 7artisans more than the 35mm f2 even though the former is a manual focus. 😅 The magic is in the focal length after all... btw, I love your shots in this vid, the sunrise looks so relaxing.

[@artu10alonso]

Love this kind of videos!! Just watching you taking photos and sharing your thoughts/advices about things that happen at the moment is perfect! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you Roman!

[@tomgreiner88]

Amazing video Roman thanks for this, listened on headphones and the ambient noises made me feel like I was there with you. Your shots are always fantastic and I love the magic of Fuji. Keep them coming! 👍 Cheers.

[@carlmcneill1139]

I have a Nikon z6 II. I bought the 40mm f/2 a year ago for street photography. I love that lens. It's one of Nikon's cheaper lenses and has a plastic mount but it's a very sharp lens. I occasionally use it as a portrait lens. I think I'll either get the 26mm or 28mm next.

[@RobWilliams42]

Echoing the other comments, the idea to stick with one focal length and commenting on how it changes your process is very educational and enjoyable to watch. I'd love to see an 85mm example if you have one, as it's the next one on my list to get better with.

[@nicolasguillenc]

I’ve been waiting for this one 🍿

[@duringthemeanwhilst]

thought you were going to go all Bruce Gilden there with the "hat" chappie!!

[@TCinSoCal]

Love 40mm. Have used the Fuji 27 for almost a decade. Amazing lens. Now using Nikon Zf with the 40 f2 and it’s VERY similar.

[@chrisrebbeck]

Great video again Roman. Camera seemed to be swaying side to side around the 10:30 mark for a couple of minutes. Like the sensor was working to keep u central?

[@braveheart3583]

Dear Roman, thank you very much for the great video. One question: Where can I find the Christmas tree with the portico? I want to go to London in mid-December hand. I would be happy if he was still there. Greetings from Germany Rainer

[@neiraxx]

Great photowalk, great locations :)

[@SconeBone5678]

ive been reluctant to go on AF-C with fuji, I am glad you showed it can be reliable! Great photo set

[@jannisbmrt]

Absolutely agree on the 40. Started shooting with a 28mm prime almost four years ago and mostly used the APS-C mode on my Sony, which then equals 42mm. I often find 50 a bit too closes, so 40 really sits right in the middle and works great for street, landscape or architecture. Also the shot at 14:41 is incredible!

[@fabscams4136]

40mm is my favourite focal length for street and general photography

[@valhala73]

Great video!! What you did was to set the camera in continuous mode and that's it?

[@Needafollower]

In one of your videos you describe the way you walk in relation to the sun position for best light beaming between buildings! I didn’t understand what you really meant! Any chance you could do a video about route selections towards sun? Going to Barcelona soon and it would be helpful so I don’t waste much time and light. Cheers. Your videos are great

[@JBurtonTenor]

Love this. thank you.

[@gripperharris]

I purchased the viltrox 27mm a few months back and used it on a holiday in October. It's a great lense, really sharp. It's just a shame it can also double as a gym weight.

[@awake780]

It’s WAY too big

[@gripperharris]

I also have the tt artisan 27mm f2.8, which is handy if I just want to pack a small camera and lens (xt30), which is ok, but not a patch image quality wise on the viltrox 27mm. I often use the viltrox for full chorus shots at rehearsals, and the details and colours are excellent. Overkill for the social media posts we use it for, really. Anyway downside weight, ois would be nice, price and image quality excellent.

[@awake780]

@@gripperharris you’re probably better off running with the 23 f2 and cropping in 4 mm (5 mm in FF). Fairly compact (insanely compact vs the Viltrox), solid image quality, and brighter than the 27 f2.8.

[@gripperharris]

hi, I have the 35f2 as well. It's a nice little lens, but I must admit I prefer the images from the viltrox. In fairness, whilst the weight of the 27mm f1.2 is high for a 27mm lense, relative to my xf 50-140mm, it feels like a feather. I have never tried the 100-400mm, but I suspect that does feel like carrying a dead body with you. Given I'm not a street photographer, well, only when I'm on holiday, I'm not lugging the lenses around for 10 hours at a time, so the weight is annoying but not a blocker. My use case, as I said, is concerts and rehearsals for concerts, so it's not on one of my cameras forever. I tend to have one camera with my tamron 17-70, one with my 50-140mm and a third with a "prime" if I want really sharp group or head shots. So that could be the 27, 56 or 85mm, depending on distance, etc. Each bring their own character to a shot.

For the 40mm equivalent get the Ricoh GRIIIX, I also have Fuji Xpro III with various primes amongst the 27mm Fuji.. But the Ricoh always seems to be my first choose. I am considering selling all the Fuji gear and stick to one camera and focal length

[@eltinjones4542]

I was in Prague recently and was so overwhelmed by the amazing archecture that in the end I just shot street

[@pressed2]

Really an underrated destination and beautiful city

[@dzikiefretki]

so cool, the Roman

[@stevew7779]

The Viltrox 40mm is so good that it's rarely off my camera and only dislodged sometimes by the Viltrox 75 to switch things up. So good that I'm seriously thinking of selling the Fuji 33mm, which I never thought I'd say. Some might be put off by the size but I don't even notice it and its the perfect field of view for me. Wonderful for night shots too. Great video.

[@Dave_Andre]

Hows the autofocus compsred to a native fuji lens, say the 33mm?

[@stevew7779]

I've found it to be excellent, at least on my XH1

[@andrewwright8472]

I have been accosted a couple of times walking through a shopping arcade by security guards and asked not to take photos, even though I wasn't actually taking photos.in Hereford it was in an open street. Has this happened to you? Great video by the way.

[@joelbeltran9127]

Less than three minutes in and I'm already saying "wow".

[@NetvoTV]

Which setup would you recommend me to pair with Sony A7RV + Tamron 50-400mm F4.5-6.3 if I will use it/them mainly for ultrawide and everyday photos with crop, video will be shoot mainly with Panasonic HC-X1500 25-600mm?: 1) Sony 12-24mm F4 2) Tamron 17-50mm F4 3) Laowa 10-18mm F4.5-5.6 + 17-50mm First cover more range but not sure if they will update this 6 years old lens soon, second is the same Tamron series but cover less range, third get even wider range but will be 3 lenses, what do you think?

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

Few years ago saw Voigtlander 40mm prime. I was in doubt and went for 35 and 50 (no regrets) but as an alternative something to seriously consider.

[@SJMPhotography]

Hi Roman, do you keep your AF-C Custom Settings on the default of Set 1? Or do you find there is a better setting for street photography? Thanks.

[@mgscheue]

Alywas fun and interesting to watch you work. Love these videos! I have the Sigma 30 mm for my X-T5, which of course splits the difference, in "full-frame" terms, between a 40 and a 50. At some point, I wonder when focal lengths are close enough that the difference doens't really matter. Probably other characteristics of the lenses become more important. I know it's common for people to have several 50 mm lenses.

[@procolotetsa5292]

Thanks for the video. 27mm is the focal length that i use the most as i have the fuji pancake lens and I'll take great advantages of the small package. The question is: after spending 1 day shooting with the 27 what do you think of the focal length? Do you still prefer the 33? Ciao

[@photoferretuk1787]

Like me there. Its 8 am, another 10 hours out. Exactly. Out-out. No point otherwise. Usually I'll go from Aldgate to Bond Street.

[@GeorgeHolden]

Love the vid, I've had a few Viltrox lens recently and the glare issues are abundant on the 13mm and 28mm - not sure how the 27mm handles?

[@snapsbyfox]

hmm didn't notice it tbh

[@GeorgeHolden]

@@snapsbyfox fair enough, both copies I have are difficult to use towards light sources without a hood

[@lensaero]

Yoshihisa Maitani (Olympus designer) could have told you that more than 60 years ago, it was his favourite focal length and featured in many of his designs. Great video btw

[@michamilka]

Hi I also have the XH2, I'm considering this 27mm too just a bit cautious of the size for street photography. How do you find it?

[@Dennisoneiljr]

Loving this focal length series! Have you ever tried the xf27mm 2.8? Curious to see if you had any thoughts on that lens.

[@dccoletrain]

I use the super cheap… TTartisan 27 2.8 and I like the focal length and size. My most used lens even though it has flaws.

[@minus1db]

Sorry dude just found you, great video……subscribed

[@raymondbenton5928]

I started out with slide film (36 exposure rolls) and my exercises were to take a roll out and see how many 'keepers' I could get out of a roll, as buying and processing a roll was expensive. So, with my new technology, mirrorless camera, I do the same thing, limiting myself to about 40 exposures a trip, unless I find something special.

[@peterwoodham769]

Great video Thanks

[@bernardjohnwright]

brilliant

[@liamgant9303]

You mentioned minimum shutter speed set at 1/200, is that your go to for day time photography?

[@_JaySho]

Can I download your presets on my phone for LR mobile?

[@Lethorio]

I really, really like 40mm for street. 50 just feels too tight and sometimes with 35, you can have a little bit too much negative space and you feel like you want to punch in a little bit more.

[@steve_nomad]

Great video as always! Have you noticed any major differences between the fuji 33mm in terms of AF or color? Did it gave you any trouble ?

[@robertgrenader858]

Loved the images, particularly the reflection shots. The 50/40mm difference is not as pronounced as I thought it would be, like the are interchangeable. I have to ask, how is the DJI Pocket 3 vs the GoPro?

[@Kevodabomb_Media]

40mm really is great.

[@judeemclaughlin7394]

I've always preferred the 40mm over the 50mm. It is the only prime I use on my full frame Nikons at this point. The only lens I have for my XE4 is the 7Artisans 27mm 1.2

[@cpnock]

Being an old 35mm film user, the thought of shooting 1000 shots in a day still gives me the shakes, but getting there. A question, if you take a photo and the person realises and asks you not to delete them would you ?