Canon EF 50mm F/1.8

GSDog · 13 Feb 2006 at 17:18

Can I have your opinions on this lens please, £70 seems really cheap, and the reviews are not bad either. I will use this lens for Portrait if it's any good.

What do you think about it?

lee7 · 13 Feb 2006 at 18:17

brillant lens for the money, every kitbag should have one for that price. Mine rearly comes off my camera.

THE BEAST · 13 Feb 2006 at 18:21

DITTO

Geffen · 13 Feb 2006 at 18:21

Have to agree, a great lense and for the price probably the best bit of kit you can get.

Use mine all the time for portraits

mrgubby · 13 Feb 2006 at 19:03

lee7 said:
brillant lens for the money, every kitbag should have one for that price. Mine rearly comes off my camera.

ditto with added

Joe T · 13 Feb 2006 at 19:06

50mm prime lenses tend to be very good. They are cheap because they are so straightforward to build. The Nikkor 50mm 1.8 is also a stonking lens.

hoodmeister · 13 Feb 2006 at 19:20

if I didn't have a 50mm f2.8 i'd undoubtedly have picked up a Nikkor 50mm 1.8

Seen some stunning shots from both it and its Canon counterpart.

[DOD]Asprilla · 13 Feb 2006 at 19:27

I got the Canon of ebay for £50 and it's great, worth it's weight in gold in low light.

Went to the Cheddar Gorge at the weekend and was shooting without flash in the caves there. Great stuff.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 13 Feb 2006 at 19:30

This is a lens everyone should have, No doubt. Prime, fast, sharp. quality, DOF.
Works fantastic as macro lens with extention tubes.

Beansprout · 14 Feb 2006 at 00:23

Fantastic lens, very sharp too, with great DOF:

Not the best examples...well, the first one looks better cropped & edited...but that's all I have to hand, eventhough I know I have about 10Gb worth of photos online somewhere out there

Deleted member 11679 · 14 Feb 2006 at 08:51

Yep its a great lens, very very pleased I bought it

DizMatt · 14 Feb 2006 at 09:34

got mine for £50 second hand on these very forums
such a quality addition to my kit
especially considering the indoor low light stuff I do for training

GSDog · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:15

Sounds pretty good then

I'll order it today.

Richard T · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:35

would this be a good replacement for the kit lens?

rG-tom · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:51

check this full size (but compressed a bit more) image out

50mm F1.8

Tom.

Joe T · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:51

ashtray_head said:
would this be a good replacement for the kit lens?

Not a replacement, more a complement.

The 50mm is a useful lens, but its not very wide. Having a prime lens can be good for your photography as it makes you move around a bit more instead of just zooming.

50mm on a film SLR is known as a standard lens, as it has a similar field of view to the human eye. However, with the DSLR crop factor, this becomes 75mm or thereabouts, which is significantly longer. If you wanted a prime lens to rpelace the kit lens as a all-round lens then I would suggest something like a 28mm or 35mm lens.

HTH.

GSDog · 14 Feb 2006 at 12:00

rG-tom said:
check this full size (but compressed a bit more) image out

50mm F1.8

Tom.

How rude!

Richard T · 14 Feb 2006 at 12:16

Joe T said:
Not a replacement, more a complement.

The 50mm is a useful lens, but its not very wide. Having a prime lens can be good for your photography as it makes you move around a bit more instead of just zooming.

50mm on a film SLR is known as a standard lens, as it has a similar field of view to the human eye. However, with the DSLR crop factor, this becomes 75mm or thereabouts, which is significantly longer. If you wanted a prime lens to rpelace the kit lens as a all-round lens then I would suggest something like a 28mm or 35mm lens.

HTH.

Ah ok

cheers Joe

Canon EF 50mm F/1.8

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