What lens to bring to a glamour shoot?

PrimalEye wrote in post #10672382
... What is a crop camera? What does it do? Is it good or bad? ...

Finally, a question that I know the answer to.

The sensor in a "crop camera" (e.g. the Canon Rebel series) is smaller than the sensor in a "full frame" camera. Most lenses project an image that would fill a full frame camera, so the crop camera's smaller sensor effectively crops off the image's edges.

In general, a full frame camera is superior because it gathers more light. My T2i's sensor is about 60% of the size of a full frame camera but compensates as best it can by optimizing the electronics and software.

Cropping the image, whether in the camera or in Photoshop, reduces the field of vision in the same way that a longer lens reduces the field of vision. So, a 100mm lens on a crop camera yields a field of vision that is equal to a 160mm (100mm x 1.6 crop factor) lens on a full frame camera.

the 50mm or the 55-250mm if you have the room, in my case I would use my Tamron 28-75 and probably shoot between 50-75mm most of the times....

If you are doing a studio shoot they most likely have strobes setup and usually use iso100, shutter speed 1/125th and a aperture of F8.

I would normally recommend your 50 prime but the 55-250 is a pretty sharp lens at F8 from 55-135mm. Quite sharp at F5.6 still.

I would use that lens. When I'm playing with my studio strobes I definitely find the 50mm too short.

If I'm the photographer, I'd use the 50.

If I'm not the photographer, the 500 f/4 works quite nicely from down the street!

Yaamon wrote in post #10672895
If you are doing a studio shoot they most likely have strobes setup and usually use iso100, shutter speed 1/125th and a aperture of F8.

I would normally recommend your 50 prime but the 55-250 is a pretty sharp lens at F8 from 55-135mm. Quite sharp at F5.6 still.

I would use that lens. When I'm playing with my studio strobes I definitely find the 50mm too short.

I have to completely agree here, the 55-250 is an extremely sharp lens (amazing for the price). I've taken some beautiful portrait shots with it, and I can see myself doing even something like a wedding with it.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #10672905
If I'm the photographer, I'd use the 50.

If I'm not the photographer, the 500 f/4 works quite nicely from down the street!

Remind me Jay never to hint where my next fashion/glamour shoot is

cacawcacaw wrote in post #10672854
In general, a full frame camera is superior because it gathers more light. My T2i's sensor is about 60% of the size of a full frame camera but compensates as best it can by optimizing the electronics and software.

Can you elaborate a little more on the FF sensor being able to gather more light?

Does that mean that given the same ISO, aperture, the full frame will be able to shoot at a higher shutter speed than a crop?

Or that the crop sensor uses electronics to amplify the gain to the light hitting the smaller sensor, thereby, having the same shutter speed, as the FF, and giving a proper exposure, albeit with more noise?

Just curious.

MP4/8 wrote in post #10673268
Can you elaborate a little more on the FF sensor being able to gather more light? ...

Haha, no I can't. I've just always assumed that there was some advantage to a bigger sensor (even if it has the same resolution as the cropped-size sensor) and that the difference must have something to do with the amount of light gathered.

Regarding the other two questions, our minds are going in the same direction and I hope someone with a bit more knowledge will provide the answer.