On 2/8/2012 11:16 AM, Bipin Gupta wrote:
Hello Walt, that DA 50/1.8 looks good if it is going to be loads
cheaper than the good old FA's. But honestly I have tried 50mm lenses
on my K20D / K-5 and find it is one of the oddest focal lengths on an
APS-C - 75 mm. I can't use it inside my home - Birthdays, Prayer
Meets, others - I have to move away from the subject and end up
hitting the walls; can't use it on the streets - find I need an 18 to
28 mm for street photography, can't use it for city scapes - like the
10-20 mm for this. So what can I use it for - only portraits?
I am truly bamboozled. Please help point me to why I should keep the 50 mm??
Hi Bipin,
It really surprises me that you don't find the 50mm focal length useful.
Since I got my K-50/1.4 I've probably used it for more than 90% of all
the shots I've taken. Granted, it takes a good deal of perseverance for
me to nail the focus using it in small rooms, but I generally manage
somehow. I've used it for everything from landscapes to candid portraits
to macros (with a reversing ring). In fact, the only thing I haven't
used it for is drag racing.
I admit it's probably not the /ideal/ lens for any of those uses, but
I've essentially come to the conclusion that I love the images it
produces so much more than the ones I get out of my other lenses that I
just figure out a way to /make/ it work. I'm pretty sure if I had any
lenses of comparable optical quality in other focal lengths, I'd use it
less. But, for just about the past year, I've shot as though it's the
only lens I have.
I guess it all depends on how you look at it. Some say, "When the only
tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I tend to see
it as, "You'd be amazed at what you can do when you don't have a choice."
-- Walt
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