An advantage of digital photography is that you can look at the EXIF data in the files. That will tell you what camera you used; the focal length you used to take the shot, the shutter speed, the aperture, and the ISO.
It’s rare for a photographer to only ever use one focal length, so after taking hundreds and maybe thousands of photos, you might want to know which focal length lens you used most.
There are applications that will enable you extract the data from all the photos in your catalogue and tell you which focal lengths you used most.
Of course, with some experience a person already gets to know which focal length they like best. But with more than one camera or with zoom lenses, the picture can get muddy.
I thought I liked 35mm. Not too wide and not too tight. After all, I used only one focal length for several years on my Fuji X100s because it is a fixed lens camera.
I got the Fuji X-T50 recently as a carry-around camera for when I didn’t want to lug my Canon EOS R6 around.
The X-T50 is an interchangeable lens camera and I chose a 35mm f2 lens to go with it.
The Fuji is a crop-sensor camera APS-C camera. So 35mm is a 50mm full-frame equivalent focal length. And that is what I used to take these shots today.
Not too wide and not too tight. I thought the shots would be too tight for groups of people, but no. So 50mm is my new favourite, at least for now.
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