Why Pro Street Photographers Choose These Lenses

i love my 28mm

I have a EF 28mm 2.8 and EF 50mm 1.8 for my EOS film canera. I need a 35mm. 28 mm is often to wide and the 50 mm is to narrow. 35 mm is very usefull for quiet everything. The latest EF lenses are incredible sharp, they can push the sharpness of film to the limit of each one.

You are absolutely right that Canon is asleep.
Fuji built one of the most beautiful cameras in 2012 with the X Pro1 and the x 100 series is completely overhyped, but a very beautiful camera.
Nikon has woken up and is showing with the ZF that you can build a
beautiful mirrorless full-format camera and people are celebrating it.
A Leica is also beautiful, but the prices for the camera and lenses are perverse.
There is definitely a market for beautiful cameras, but unfortunately they prefer to fill the cameras with even more technology.
That doesn't necessarily make the photos and the photographic experience any better.

Canon R8 + 28mm pancake. Absolutely fabulous street combo. Can take on a Fuji rangefinder.

Great video! The 28 is a wonderful size, but my large hands can't conform to any camera body smaller than my RP/r10 setup. My pinky finger is the loneliest member.

Hi, R6m2 owner here, you are able to use 10 bit recording without being required to use log. Just instead you're forced to record in HDR, Rec2020 color space. It's still not SDR Rec709, but I figured it would be worth it to throw it out.

I don't see zoom as another setting I have to get right and having a zoom lens actually feels "liberating" to me (and I worry less about potentially missing a shot, because I don't have to zoom with my feet).

Here to complain once more about Sony not having that 27/28mm pancake…

Haha agreed a digital L3 with my film L3 happy days. One I’m interested in at the moment is the rollei 35af I have a film 35se awesome tiny camera I’m keen to check the update out asap.

Love that camera chart

I shoot so many brands I enjoy them all canon for the newspaper day job love it never lets me down. For personal work all sorts of different brands. If I was to be pushed to having just two cameras for the rest of my worthless days I go with the Leica Q2 because it it absolutely amazing then to feed my nostalgia the canon L3 with the wee elmar is the sexiest camera I’ve used it just looks the part and the results are gorgeous. Hopefully tho I’ll never have to make that choice so much great gear available. Live once shoot loads 📷

Is it swiss

I was saying if they made a full frame m6 style body with the style based off their old rangefinder to compete with Fuji they would sell like hot cakes

I've long thought that Canon wins the ugliest camera award. Any modern Canon.

I shoot manybof my street photos with an 85mm lens on my Canon R, but the 28mm looks pretty good.

Why not R8 or RP?

Would love to see Canon get away from the 1990's DSLR/SLR style and return to their roots with some rangefinder and more compact & stylish slr styled cameras. Kinda crazy that a company that used to create some of the most beautiful looking cameras now creates the ugliest lol

Fuji Fuji y Fuji con jpg 100%

I don't know about actual range finder. But my favorite body style has been the sans-viewfinder eos m cameras. Fell in love with the original EOS M + 22mm f2, and later upgraded to the M6 Mark II. Personally, I think the ideal camera in terms of design, size and shape would be the R6 Mark II with everything that it has, sans-viewfinder. To bring it over the top, add gyro stabilization metadata into the files that can later be used in software like gyroflow and also give us the option for cinema DNG RAW (NONE OF THAT CANON RAW FROM THE R5C). It wouldn't hurt to port the 22 mm f2 to the RF mount either. I wish they'd continue the EOS M style with the RF mount on cameras like the r10.

WTF is a “pro” street photographer?😂

I bought my Fiancé a Canon R50. It's tiny and has some really cool tech in it. I'd love to see you try it out and hear your opinion on it. It's interesting to see how companies like Sony and Canon are creating these more user friendly "content creation" cameras but seeing a professional with a ton of skill use the newer tech to its fullest. As well as keeping it simple in full manual mode and seeing if you can still get that classic street camera feel. Throw their pancake rf mount lens on there and it's a tiny setup

I have the exact Canon zoom lens and I found it liberating, because I could not disturb the subject easier, isolate the frame with zooming and reach a composition, which would not be possible if I did it with a prime lens. So I guess it all goes down to skill and personal preference, because you can do incredible street photography with a zoom lens.

It's a shame you didn't get to try the 28mm on the R8 body as it's a tiny street combination that does nearly everything the R6 II can. It's perfect on a wristrap and I can carry all day and not notice the weight at all. The lack of IBIS isn't much of an issue for me as I'm shooting 1/500 minimum most of the time for street. If they'd just make the 40mm pancake in the RF mount now it'd be my perfect two lens set up for the foreseeable future.

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For a compact (and very affordable) RF mount full frame body, get a Canon RP. I've seen good ones used for around USD500 by now. It is by far the smallest full frame camera I have ever seen - although the Sigma fp might be smaller, but it has no mechanical shutter, no grip and no EVF.

have been waiting on a full frame sony pancake for a while. now I am waiting on canon to make a full frame compact haha

Yes for the love of god make a canonet series rangefinder ez sell my word.

Love my 40mm stm really wish they made an RF version. Funny my canonet ql25 and ql28 have similar lenses :D

Thanks for this. I've been contemplating upgrading to the R system, with this very 28mm pancake lens. My 6D and 6Dmk2 are showing signs of wear and tear over years of use on the streets in the rain. I'm thinking it might be time to take the plunge, as the original R is quite small compared to the 6D. As for Canon producing an old style mirrorless like Nikon zf, or a digital rangefinder, dream on… It's taken them way too long to even realise that street photographers have specific needs like pancake lenses, or even small full frame cameras, much less rangefinders,. Come back in 2030, and they might decided it's a good idea by then. If I weren't so invested in Canon glass, I probably would've switched already. It's so sad.

eos-m (any of them) + 22mm 🎉 then also adapter and 40mm pancake... cheap cheatcode.... Canon just disconued these for selling more R 😂 nobody needs more really and were "cheap" (only for tv,.sports, etc). I like R8, but no reason at all, only for that iso 40.000 usable

So refreshing to see a video about common sense photography. George does it every time. Thank you!!!

I use it with Canon’s smallest full frame; the R8. It only weighs about 460g and is perfect with small primes. Also, it’s very similar to the R6 mkii in sensor, AF and processor.

Canon will listen to you!

😂 Chortle

I use the 40mm F2.8 XS lens for pentax, which covers fullframe. It's so sweet to enable the camera to be more travel friendly. 😍

It is 52g and 9.2mm thick.

I would slaughter both my first and second born if Canon could do what you posit - a full frame mirrorless rangefinder with the sex appeal of those beauties from the long gone past. Cheers from Montreal QV😊

Just last month I sold all my canon mirrorless and swapped to a new system based solely on the look and feel of the new system. I now take my camera pretty much everywhere and have really enjoyed the learning curve.

My go to is Canon 24mm pancake for street photography,does not draw attention.

I also have the old Sigma 24mm which is a bigger prime but images are sharp!

I'm not gonna lie... i love me a prime pancake, too!

I’m a Nikon shooter in the main, and I said the same thing, I wish Nikon would make a FF RF and a couple of pancakes like a 28 and a 35. A 35-45 MP backlit sensor, an optical/ electronic view finder, 6-8 stop ibis and built to the same quality standard as the Zf. So basically, what I’m saying is, just bleeding well copy the Fuji X100 VI. 😊

Got the 28mm for my R8. Superlight set-up, and if you turn off wi-fi, the smaller battery on the R8 is a non-issue

You could have expanded your skit to include smartphones. For street photography, they are not just great, they are the best. Here's why:
1) ultimate compactness, beats ANY compact camera
2) stealthiness, no one is surprised by a person with a smartphone in hands
3) you won't ever have to leave the street, live on the streets while editing and posting your pictures.
Capabilities are sufficient. For example, a 28mm f/1.8 lens, OIS, PDAF, RAW, and manual controls is what I get on a 2+ year-old smartphone, not even a flagship version, for less than $200 pre-owned on eBay.
Yes, maybe not as much resolution, and there's noise, but that only matters for pixel peepers. You can still take great photos and even make large prints.
And you don't need a professional camera to do professional photography.

Love the video. BTW, try the R8, much smaller and lighter and a joy to use.

what's with the canon hate ? i don't get it.

I really wish there were more pancakes that match the delight of the lumix 14mm and 20mm pancakes. I haven't enjoyed a full frame or even apsc pancake as much since. Honestly, I'm half thinking of getting another GX1 just to play with those two lenses again.

I have the Canon 28mm -- don't like it. My copy is not sharp. Nowadays I am shooting mostly at 40mm with the Nikon Z5 camera -- love it. The Nikon 40mm is muffin sized and light in weight. Sharp enough. Nikon dynamic range is far better, and the RAW files can be played with much more than with the Canon RP. And the Nikon Z5 is a tilt only screen. For wider shots the Lumix GX9 + a Leica 15mm which are pretty sharp. Another great street camera. In film cameras, I do have a Canon TLb. --- yes, built like a tank, and a nice metal, cold to the finger feel, is great. They should make a Canonet for the street camera, in digital, with an updated Canon sensor. The color is there, the dynamic range less so. On sale, the Nikon Z5 + 40mm lens combo is a gift. A Nikon Z5 for $996 USD and lens for $277 USD -- come on man, a giveaway price!

I use a Nikon z6 II for street photography with the 28mm and 40mm lenses. Nikon's 28mm is small but I don't know if you could call it a pancake lens. The 40mm is slightly bigger but not by much. My first DSLR was a Canon T6s. I had a couple of reasons for leaving Canon for Nikon. Every manufacturer makes good cameras these days. They all have good sensors. I think it's a matter of which one fits you best.

I like your videos! The first camera I bought was a Canon A1 and I liked it very much. Imagine a scenario where Canon partners with Kodak and releases a small (R8 size would be fine) FF retro camera with official Kodak film emulations.

Excellent video! Yes! Product designers must look a lot more at the history of the brand they are designing for!