Canon EF 50mm F/1.8

[GSDog]

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]

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

 

[THE BEAST]

DITTO

 

[Geffen]

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]

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

ditto with added

 

[Joe T]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Beansprout]

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]

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

 

[DizMatt]

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]

Sounds pretty good then

I'll order it today.

 

[Richard T]

would this be a good replacement for the kit lens?

 

[rG-tom]

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50mm F1.8

Tom.

 

[Joe T]

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]

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50mm F1.8

Tom.

How rude!

 

[Richard T]

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