Why Pro Street Photographers Choose These Lenses

Thank you, Canon for letting me try the Canon R6 Mark ii, the RF 28mm and RF 16mm!
Professional street photographers know that the best way to improve their images is by committing to a single focal length during a shoot or over some time. Committing to a 28mm or 35mm focal length is a great way to learn how to compose subjects on the street, without simply zooming in to fill the frame. Pancake lenses take this even further, by keeping your kit lightweight and portable when shooting, making longer photo sessions easier to improve your street photography.

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0:00 - Street Portfolio Review
0:32 - Street Kit
1:06 - Why I Love These Lenses
2:38 - 28mm and 35mm Images
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5:52 - A Conflicting Camera
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[gregbrummett]

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

[thorstenjaspert]

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.

[darrellbutler]

Eat a pancake every time George says pancake. Great vid George, I do love a 28.

[summertime]

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.

[Sundayinthelife]

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

[deanrobertnoble]

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.

[nitrocranium]

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

[carlmcneill]

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.

[IasKeysan]

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.

[khanceptbelal]

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.

[PhilippeDHooghe]

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

[sambarnes]

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.

[paultaylorphotography]

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 📷

[Oxbowphoto]

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.

[paultaylorphotography]

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.

[thedarkslide]

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.

[raulal]

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

[NerdsWorldNYC]

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!

[Steffe]

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

[TheLogicalphycopath]

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