What do you think of the nifty fifty?

padocon

Price seems good! What do current owners think? Edit: For Canon

Ricky91t

S'good

ThOnda

I think that it is essential lense for everybody. Especially for the money.

Mycroft H

and thats not just for canon, for every manufacture its a fantastic lens for the money

Ricky91t

landyman wrote: »

and thats not just for canon, for every manufacture its a fantastic lens for the money

Go away you,with your sony :pac:

Have to agree though,Seems to be a high quaility great value lens throughout the SLR world!

Kintarō Hattori

There's a thread below on the nifty fifty. As another poster mentioned, it really is an essential purchase. It's easily my favourite lens among the few that I own.


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055650691

.Longshanks.

I bloody love mine and managed to get it for £70 stg

Kintarō Hattori

Longshanks100 wrote: »

I bloody love mine and managed to get it for £70 stg

Fecker I paid nearly €200 (delivered) for my Pentax and that was the cheapest price on eBay at the time.

Fenster

Frustrating. Enticingly delightful. Demanding. Easy. Difficult. Lover and hater.

Creamy Goodness

best bang for buck lens by far.

it should be a criminal offense not to have one imo.

.Longshanks.

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Fecker I paid nearly €200 (delivered) for my Pentax and that was the cheapest price on eBay at the time.

A seller in Kerso in Scotland sells them for £70stg if your a member of a different forum in UK.
Bargin!

Buzz Lightyear

Love the quality of the lens. Its crisp and sharp for portrait work. At a low f it has a wonderful shallow depth of field.

The only drawback I have is (nikon version on D80) that its slow to auto focus, when compared to my 70-300vr or even kit lenses. However at €100 its great value for money :cool:

Ricky91t

Longshanks100 wrote: »

A seller in Kerso in Scotland sells them for £70stg if your a member of a different forum in UK.
Bargin!

I'm gonna get one of them,How much is P&P?

.Longshanks.

Ricky91t wrote: »

I'm gonna get one of them,How much is P&P?

I can't actually remember. I got mine back in Feb this year, but it was a good 3 or 4 months later before i appreciated it and then loved it! The link says 70 quid posted, but you would need to PM the seller to ask

Slidinginfinity

I think a fifty is a necessity! It's a lens that you will learn with. It's the best prime for the price.

padocon

What are they like for use in a church? I was in Italy and found the kit lens terrible! And I have just been invited to a wedding and I would like to take a few snaps! I know it is f1.8 so it should be good!

.Longshanks.

padocon wrote: »

What are they like for use in a church? I was in Italy and found the kit lens terrible! And I have just been invited to a wedding and I would like to take a few snaps! I know it is f1.8 so it should be good!

Providing you can let your feet do the zooming, (from what i know) you wont get a better lens this side of at least €500
This was taken inside a church with no flash

click for large size

kumate_champ07

all its got going for it is sharpness(actually sharper than the 50 f1.2L at smaller apertures), f1.8, light and cheap

but bokeh quality,color,contrast are all lacking. If you are really stuck for cash its a great buy. another option is to buy an old manual 50mm f1.4 / f1.7, f1.8/ f2 lens. much better build quality, cheaper(50mm f2 will cost u 30euro, f1.4 will cost u 70+/-euro) and image quality can also be better with them old lenses. pentax k mount are easily adapted to canon eos.

kumate_champ07

Longshanks100 wrote: »

Providing you can let your feet do the zooming, (from what i know) you wont get a better lens this side of at least €500
This was taken inside a church with no flash

click for large size

sigma 50mm f1.4 is my favourite lens and is much better than the canon 50's except it cant do f1.2, I prefer it to my more expensive 135mm f2L.

padocon

Longshanks100 wrote: »

Providing you can let your feet do the zooming, (from what i know) you wont get a better lens this side of at least €500
This was taken inside a church with no flash

click for large size

Wow, that shot is stunning! I forgot the max is 50mm. How ever I'm using a 400D so its slightly more!



You can get a filter to make the shots brighter can't you? And if that was on my 300mm lens all angles would be covered! I don't want to be traipsing round the church.

Any one recommend a filter for what I want?

richieg

I got one recently for my D90. Its a Nikkor 50mm F1.8 but I can only use it in manual mode so it must be the older version. Great build quality. Bought it on ebay for €80 delivered. Taking a while to get used to the manual focus and the amount of light coming in at F2.8 or F1.8 compared to my kit lens.

Loving the shallow depth of field.

Mycroft H

i got my 50mm f1.4 for 140 euro!! Fantastic value for money!

Chorcai

I think it great the lens forces you to get in close and to think abit more about each photo, which can help instead of standing back and using the zoom.

Use the force I say.

sineadw

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

pentax k mount are easily adapted to canon eos.

Explain please???

sineadw

Oh and I loved my nifty until I got the 1.4. Its a bloody great lens though.

*eadaoin

sineadw wrote: »

Oh and I loved my nifty until I got the 1.4. Its a bloody great lens though.

i'm trying to decide between the economy of buying the canon nifty and the expense of buying the 1.4 at the moment. i don't have a lot of money but i do plan on having the 1.4 at some stage in the future, so don't know if it's worth spending money on the nifty cause in the long run it will save me money rather than buying both lenses.

can't make up my mind, i wish i had a ton of money & no worries bout this kind of stuff, i'd pimp out my camera big time

Fajitas!

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

all its got going for it is sharpness(actually sharper than the 50 f1.2L at smaller apertures), f1.8, light and cheap

but bokeh quality,color,contrast are all lacking. If you are really stuck for cash its a great buy. another option is to buy an old manual 50mm f1.4 / f1.7, f1.8/ f2 lens. much better build quality, cheaper(50mm f2 will cost u 30euro, f1.4 will cost u 70+/-euro) and image quality can also be better with them old lenses. pentax k mount are easily adapted to canon eos.

Or just buy the Canon 50mm 1.4 - Better build quality, contrast and autofocus than the 1.8, better autofocus than the 1.2, and a hell of a lot lighter.

Tbh, I'd generally recommend just saving up the bit extra and getting the 1.4 straight away (unless you're not actually that much of a fan of the 50mm focal length and just need a fastish prime).

padocon

Time isn't on my side. I may as well save up a good bit and get a better lens in time. Thanks Fajitas!


I think i'll go with nifty fifty. It has a short distance, it will do for now until I have a bit more $$$ and then I can upgrade.

Thanks for all the help every one! Much appreciated!

Mycroft H

The 50mm f1.8s arent renowned for their build quality though. My friend had one that the front glass element just fell out when it got a bit of a knock (I fell around laughing when it happened).....

That very reason alone would make me save for a f1.4 version

padocon

landyman wrote: »

The 50mm f1.8s arent renowned for their build quality though. My friend had one that the front glass element just fell out when it got a bit of a knock (I fell around laughing when it happened).....

That very reason alone would make me save for a f1.4 version

How old was it?

Mycroft H

padocon wrote: »

How old was it?

It was about 2 years old i remember.

He was climbing over a gate and as he was swinging over the gate his 40d clipped the top rung, though not that hard

Plastic not-so-fantastic build quality :pac:

DK32

Agree the build quality is not great in fact the 1.8 II feels worse than a kit lens, but the images they produce often speak for themselves.
I recently purchased one from simplyelectronics.net for €82. At that price my thinking was, work with the lens, get used to it and then when finances permit, upgrade to an L series equivalent.

The price jumps are significant between the available Canon 50's
50mm 1.8 II - €82
50mm 1.4 - €295
50mm 1.2L - €1000

At less than €100 for the lens I think it's a bargain.

kumate_champ07

sineadw wrote: »

Explain please???

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120490792334#ht_2482wt_1167

sineadw

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120490792334#ht_2482wt_1167

Doesn't fit mine anyway... :rolleyes:

kumate_champ07

sineadw wrote: »

Doesn't fit mine anyway... :rolleyes:

what do you have?

dnme

I ordered my first ever lens last week - The Canon EF 50mm f1.4. (300 quid from calumet). I'm new to DSLR and a beginner I have spent the past months reading reviews / forums / blogs etc and this lens always seems to get high scores. It made my "which lens do I buy first?" question very easy to answer.