Matt Blaze on Nostr: Very long lenses like the 400mm (and up), with their narrow field of view, are ...

Very long lenses like the 400mm (and up), with their narrow field of view, are essential for some compositions (such as this one), but I find I only rarely actually use them. In fact, the longest lens I have for my main medium format camera system is 180mm (which yields the 35mm equivalent view of about a 120mm), and I hardly ever use even that for the most of the photography I do.

For wildlife photographers, on the other hand, 400mm is practically a wide angle.