Are prime lenses mostly used for portraits?
How practical is it if I used it as a walk around lens in the street at night (say, taking photo of christmas deco in orchard during Christmas)?
Are prime lenses mostly used for portraits? How practical is it if I used it as a walk around lens in the street at night (say, taking photo of christmas deco in orchard during Christmas)?
Are prime lenses mostly used for portraits? How practical is it if I used it as a walk around lens in the street at night (say, taking photo of christmas deco in orchard during Christmas)?
If you are refering to using a 50mm f/1.4 in a museum in the day, I would say yes. If you are using a 85mm f/1.4 to take Christmas lights in a busy Orchard Road, I would say not quite practical given the long focal length, which means you have to stand pretty far away from your subject and given the crowd around which will most of the time block your photographic sight.
True. Unless you want to be creative and capture pretty close up not-so-landscape style photos. Might have some potential here too, especially with a fast aperture. Mind you, bokeh isn't the strong point of EF 50mm/1.8, an otherwise great lens. :embrass:
Hi Estel
got a newbie qns, how do you define EF 50mm/1.8 a great lense? thought of getting one as well.
Hi Caleb. Nice photos...so is it a good lense now or a good photographer???
Good equipment in the hands of a bad photographer, does not make good photographs, and vice versa.
You have to know what you are doing, and only then will good equipment fulfill its potential.
if you are trying to take christmas deco, then i would say that what you need is not so much a fast lens but a tripod.Are prime lenses mostly used for portraits? How practical is it if I used it as a walk around lens in the street at night (say, taking photo of christmas deco in orchard during Christmas)?
if you are trying to take christmas deco, then i would say that what you need is not so much a fast lens but a tripod.
fast prime lenses are often used in the portrait work for its optical quality and, when needed, the thin DoF for the resulting bokeh... (of course, i'm also generalising here, as not all portaits are shot at f1.4 or f1.8, as there are other considerations in getting nice oof area)
fast lenses, as the name implies, would allow you to shoot at faster speeds, thus avioding some amount of handshake in the picture. but given that you're thinking of doing deco, either a tripod, or a good VR (105, 70-200) lens might what you're looking for.
Hi Estel
got a newbie qns, how do you define EF 50mm/1.8 a great lense? thought of getting one as well.
I concur. Usually in landscape shots, whether in the day or at night, one would prefer a wide aperture (not too wide, or you'll fall into the trap of diffraction) and a wide lens to get maximum coverage and Depth Of Field. As this would result in a low shutter speed, a tripod is preferble. I also find that the 50mm FOV on a FF is too narrow for landscape shots, much less on a crop body.
Samuel
I guess if you buy the 50mm f1.8 now you might want to upgrade to a 50mm f1.4 later...
so might as well get the f1.4 now.