Post your Fifty!

[QuaziPhoto]

My 50 1.8 is the cheapest lens I own, and also one of my favorites. I see no reason to buy the 1.4 or 1.2L. The 1.4 has some serious performance issues, and the 1.2, well, drop THAT and it's big bucks down the drain.

This is handheld, available light, no color balance since I love the yellow, 1/15 second at f/1.8, ISO 800, Canon 30D.

this is a BEAUTIFUL SHOT, I can feel his love through it!

[mommymomo]

Somehow my post got lost in the conversation.

Do they make a nifty fifty for Konica Minolta?

[dougsmit]

Somehow my post got lost in the conversation.

Do they make a nifty fifty for Konica Minolta?

Not that I know of but I am a Canon owner and do not keep up with others. They do have a 50mm macro prime but it is priced like what it is and the Canon offers the appeal of 'bargain'.

I enjoy adding a set of Kenko extension tubes to thee 50mm and use the lens this way more often than for 'normal' work.

Gallery: http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/canon_50mm_f18.jpg

Sample:

[Hikariphoto]

Somehow my post got lost in the conversation.

Do they make a nifty fifty for Konica Minolta?

I hate to say it, but your Minolta, while a good camera, is now obsolete because Minolta bailed out of the digital camera world. Sony picked up the Minolta product lines, but I don't know whether they make a lens like this.

I'm seeing on Ebay some old Minolta-mount 50mm 1.7 lenses, used for about the price of a new Canon one. I can't vouch for the quality of the lens, but it's available.

Unfortunately, it may well end up you'll have to dump the Minolta and switch to either Canon or Nikon, eventually.

[studio206]

I just recently bought a new one ^_^ to replace the one i broke



Snapshot be4 the start of a shoot ^_^ and I posted a few more shots in the nude/glam section.

[Hikariphoto]

I use my 50 as a macro lens as well. I have a silly little +3 Hoya I screw into the end of my fifty, and I get images easily as sharp as any macro lens I've ever seen. By the way, the 50mm Canon Macro prime is a dog -- it's sharp enough, but it's very very very slow focusing and doesn't do well in low light. Examples of my 50 with the +3:

[Billyj571]

cool need to get one but 1.4