If your budget permits, suggest you consider the canon 85mm F1.8 instead. It's about $500 for a good condition second-hand copy. My personal view is that the 50mm F1.8 will not do justice to your 7D. By the way, I am also using the 7D and I have the 85mm lens.
If your budget permits, suggest you consider the canon 85mm F1.8 instead. It's about $500 for a good condition second-hand copy. My personal view is that the 50mm F1.8 will not do justice to your 7D. By the way, I am also using the 7D and I have the 85mm lens.
I used 50F1.8 on 5DM2 and 1DM3, how does it not do it justice? :dunno:
The acid test - Is the 50mm F1.8 your favorite portrait lens?
To me the equipment is only as good as it's wielder, do you agree? Whether or not it's the mere $100/- lenses like 50F1.8 or a 200F2L, it's up to how you use it well...
why presume that TS is not a good or even great photographer? I have no basis to do so, and neither do you.
professional photographers just save all their money and stick with value-for-money lenses, and for the sake of argument camera bodies too, since they are such fantastic wielders?
First, let me say please don't put words into my mouth. To my knowledge I have yet to seen the TS works how would I had comment on his photography skill? :dunno:
Most friends who are professional photographers I knew stick with the most suitable equipments that get the job done while give them the most value for money. My advise is before investing in a equipment, don't ask if it do justice to you rather do you do justice to the it.
I may be blunt but often people buy because of peer pressure (commonly known as BBB virus). That what separate a professional and an hobbyist photographer .
But my sense is TS is not infected yet. His kit lens is not wide enough (for DOF) for portraits. Moreover he is not rushing out to acquire an L lens!
I am confused.... you say that the TS's kit lens (15-85mm) on 7D is not "wide enough", and you are suggesting to buy the 85F1.8 so that it's "wide enough" :think:
Am I missing something :dunno:
What I said was not "NEARLY wide enough". Are you suggesting 50F1.8 because it is? And when I said it made sense for TS to consider a portrait lens, I did not state specifically the 85mm. Since both the 50mm and 85mm under discussion are F1.8s, clearly that is not the differentiating factor. Sigh, we could go on forever if we want to nit-pick!
What I said was not "NEARLY wide enough". Are you suggesting 50F1.8 because it is? And when I said it made sense for TS to consider a portrait lens, I did not state specifically the 85mm. Since both the 50mm and 85mm under discussion are F1.8s, clearly that is not the differentiating factor. Sigh, we could go on forever if we want to nit-pick!