New toy
I have a pretty nice camera, a dslr[0] but what I'm still lacking is a decent collection of lenses. I have a couple good ones that take decent images but require either good lighting or a tripod. Things I don't always have handy.. so I decided it was about time to purchase a new lense. After careful research, the canon canon 50mm f1.4 seemed like a good, not overly expensive[1] choice. Fast lenses are great but they can very quickly run into $$$.
Here's the first picture, uncorrected, straight from camera, in poor indoor light.
Geek stuff: hand held 50mm 1/15th F1.4 ISO200
[0] Canon Rebel if you're really curious
[1] $309 at bhphoto
Comments
I have a f1.8 50mm lens (for my recently purchased Nikon D50) scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. Cheap ($99), light, fast(enough) and reported to be on of the sharpest lenses Nikon makes... I'm really anxious to try it out.
I grew up shoting with a f1.2 50mm lens on a Canon A1 body (not a cheap lens to say the least)... fast, but so hard to learn how to shoot well.
I'm so happy with how easy the low-noise of the current DSLRs makes things. I don't have to choose between grainy, allowance-draining, ISO-800 film, and not getting the shot at all. Now with a spin of the command dial... voila. Even slow zoom lenses work in marginal lighting.
The only drag is that it's helping further my decent into full-time curmugeonly behavior. I keep catching myself telling my younger friend "back in my day... ...manual focus and we liked it!"
Have fun with yours!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/denovich/
(all the D50 shots here were with a $79 Nikon f3.3/5.6 28-80 zoom. Probably the worst lens they make, but still good results.)
Posted by: Mark Denovich | February 7, 2006 09:07 PM
Doh! I could have just used that lens... some sort of police action just outside my house with 4 cruisers, a drug dog?, and someone getting hauled off in handcuffs. Damn slow zoom lens! I got a few shots, hopefully without giving myself away with the AF illuminator.
Posted by: Mark Denovich | February 7, 2006 10:34 PM
My, what pretty eyes you have ;-)
Posted by: Robert Hook | February 8, 2006 05:13 PM