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Ultra fast primes

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- Hi, my name's Rich Harrington. - And I'm Robbie Carman. - Welcome to this week's episode on Video Gear Weekly. And for full disclosure, this the week where we're going to be talking about gear that is kind of expensive and you might want, but I just, you know, if you get in trouble with your significant other, or your boss comes back and says, "Where'd you get such expensive taste?" just don't tell them, okay? - And this is also to be, also in full disclosure, the tip of the iceberg, and what we're going to talk about of course, is the idea of using fast prime lenses. - Yeah. - And fast lenses are referring to the aperture. The maximum aperture that a lens can attain. And this is the kind of thing that's kind of confused people for a long time. It's a fast aperture, the lower the number of the aperture on the lens. So for example, a 1.4 lens is faster than a 2.8 lens. And of course, Rich, you know this, the faster the lens, the bigger that maximum aperture is, the more light it lets…

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