Prime lens list question

[Blade Borge]

Trying to broaden my knowledge of prime lens lengths, I got on Panavision's website and I see all kinds of numbers, just trying to get the basics memorized, are these right?

...?
35mm
50mm
75mm
100mm
135mm
...?
...?
...?

Thanks

 

[KKeller]

looks right

 

[Joe Calabrese]

28mm is pretty common to me.

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

A prime lens can be any length.


There are common ones and then there are not.

Common ones to me would be

12mm
14mm
18mm
20mm
24mm
25mm
35mm
40mm
45mm
50mm
55mm
75mm
85mm
100mm
135mm
150mm
200mm

etc



Lenses vary. But the longer they get the less the difference per mm is... meaning the difference between a 25mm and a 50mm is '25', but the FoV is greater than a 150mm and a 200mm...

 

[Amr Rahmy]

for s35 and ff sensors

ultra wide:
14 - common
12 - new

wide:
24 - common
28 - odd
35 - one of three most common lens(35-50-85)

medium:
50 - most common
85 - common

telephoto:
anything starting above 50 can be considered telephoto in ff sensors, 100 and more in s35
100 - not so common
135 - common
200 - common

only other primes would be macro and tilt shift lens

tilt shift can be used as a prime in some scenarios, while macro is more specialty lens.
only used rarely and normally for only a few shots.