On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > I am truly bamboozled. Please help point me to why I should keep the 50 mm??
IMHO there is no focal length that is useless and there is no focal length that is good for only certain types of photography. Even "portraiture" as a category is often painted with a broad brush. Do you think that cutting off the top of the head is "bad" in your photography? If you look at some examples, you'll see that many powerful images are made doing just that. Other times we think we have to show the person/people from head-to-toe, and really that can often make the most boring sort of photo. I recommend taking a look at the images created with a particular focal length and camera combo on Pentax Photo Gallery to get an idea (or inspiration) as to what kind of images can be made and ask yourself whether it is the lens' focal length that is the problem or maybe the way that you are confining yourself to using it. You can go to PPG and search for images based upon lens (and/or camera combo). There are lots of different 50s to compare.There are also Flickr groups like "Nifty Fifty!" that are only for images created with a 50mm lens (though you will need to check and see if the images you like were created with a full frame or APS-C (or other) to compare apples-to-apples with your camera. http://www.flickr.com/groups/niftyfifty/ In general, I think that people like the 50 for it's slightly telephoto (on crop cameras) combined with its shallow depth of field when wide open (whether that be 1.2, 1.4, 1.7, 1.8, or 2.0). If that's not the look you are going for, then perhaps you really don't "need" it. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
