I would love to see pictures taken with a 50mm lens.

[Belmondo]

We seem to have gotten ourselves worked into a lather over the benefits of high-priced professional grade optics. Yet whenever a new DSLR owner comes aboard and asks the inevitable question, "Which lens should I buy first?", almost without exception, someone gets around to suggesting the standard, humble 50mm lens. Then, we go right back to salivating over big white lenses with their fancy optics and image stabilization, and generally ignore the 50mm lens again.

I would love to see a thread of images taken with either the f/1.4 or f/1.8 50mm lenses just to prove to the newbies that we really do have these lenses, that we actually use them, and we indeed can take top quality pictures with them.

Why doesn't somebody suggest that?

:?: :?: :?:

[gsmx2]

Not a great picture, but natural lighting at a campfire with an unposed subject and handheld, but braced. ISO: 800 F-1.8 1/10 of a second. This is the kind of shot I got this lens for.

http://home.earthlink.net/~gsmx2/Cach03screen020.JPG

[chris.bailey]

Tom

Will post a couple up over the next few days.

The 50mm 1.4 was one of the last added to my arsenal and I bought it mainly for portrait work. I increasingly find myself carrying it around and looking for opportunities to use it though. It is though a superb optic and creates pictures with just a little extra oomph. Thats about the only word for it, yes its a bit sharper than a zoom, seems to generate a little better contrast and is reasonably fast. Side by side with a shot taken on my 17-40 at the 40 end, the differences are hard to discern and yet there is something about a shot in my album that I can look at it and know I used the 50mm. For what you get it is reasonably priced and the 1.4 gives you an extra stop and USM. It most certainly deserves a red band!

[johnmate]

All pictures on my website (except the landscape gallery) where made with the Canon EF 50mm 1.8 II.

http://www.mateboer.com/digitalgallery/10d


Love the lens!

Example:

http://www.mateboer.com/digitalgallery/10d/Html/Images/IMG_0862.jpg

[Guillermo Freige]

I've just posted 3 pictures taken with the 50/1.8 wideopen at ISO 1600.
I can post the link to the other sites, but let repeat the pictures here, to simplify things :)

One dance shot:

http://gfreige.homelinux.org/gallery/photos/normal/DR_2808.jpg

A couple of versions of another dance shot:

The "moody" version:
Using the original camera AWB, and more faithful to the actual experience (I think I've already posted it)
http://gfreige.homelinux.org/gallery/photos/big/DR_2810.jpg

And the "coloful" version:
Using a custom WB in C1Rebel. Isn't RAW wonderful?? :)
http://gfreige.homelinux.org/DR_2810_corrected.jpg

I've originally processed all the pictures using the "moody" setting, but today I was playing with C1Rebel, and it surprised me how far WB correction can compensate really weird-colored lights.

[chris.bailey]

All pictures on my website (expect the landscape gallery) where made with the Canon EF 50mm 1.8 II.

http://www.mateboer.com/digitalgallery/10d


Love the lens!



Great examples of the ooomph I was talking about!!!!!

[Tom W]

Good news and bad news:

The good news is that I do have a 50 mm picture to show.
The bad news (well, not really that bad) is that it comes from a 1.5 mpix film-to-disk experiment that I did last December.

It isn't the worst picture in the world, though I did have to clean up some noise a bit. Kodak labs took a nice 35 mm negative and turned it into a 1.5 mpix shot for whatever reason. I would have expected at least 4 mpix or so.

Anyway, it was taken, IIRC at wide-open aperture with available light. I usually used 400 Fuji Superia film, so that's probably what I had there. This was on a shelf that runs over the doorway between my parent's kitchen and living room, so it wasn't the brightest spot in the house. That's especially true with me up there on a ladder taking a picture. :)

http://home.comcast.net/~trwilk3/Images/Wood_Soldiers.jpg

[CRCs Reality]

Still getting used to my 50mm 1.8, but so far I love it!
http://crcs-reality.dyndns.org/mt/images/CRW_0849.jpg
A shot taken last night of a friends new baby :)
.
Or, this one taken the other night...
http://crcs-reality.dyndns.org/photoblog/archives/CRW_0704-b.jpg

Great lens.

[sartobr]

[/img]http://www.pbase.com/image/25710440/original

[Tom W]

CRC Reality - Those are both nice. Sharp as a tack.

Sartobr - you need to get rid of the "img" tag. I think just putting the link will work, since it doesn't seem like pbase lets you link directly (or I don't know how to do it). Here's your link:

http://www.pbase.com/image/25710440/original

[slejhamer]

50mm f/1.8 at ISO 1600:

http://www.pbase.com/image/25600591.jpg

Looks like pbase's servers may be down again; try this link:
http://www.pbase.com/image/25600591

From:
http://www.pbase.com/m_schlesinger/brazilian_jiu_jitsu__alvaro_barreto_seminar

Cheers!

[lime]

Here are few with 10D+50mm1.8

Outdoor Available Light No Flash
http://www.pbase.com/image/22572974.jpg
Indoor Low Light No Flash
http://www.pbase.com/image/22548474.jpg
Indoor Low Light With 420EX Bounced off of a white index card.
http://www.pbase.com/image/22802043.jpg

For around $70 can't go wrong with this lens.

[sartobr]

http://www.pbase.com/image/25710440/original


How do I simply embed the image -- as oppose to the link ??

Sorry --- my first time in case you couldn't guess

[maderito]

Shot with Canon 50/1.4 @ 1/60, f1.8, ISO 400

http://display.lifepics.com/imgdisp.asp?filespec=%60foxhx2cuxmwdogx%5D9%3C%3D8 %3B9dOjeOrmlfvpqyxp%7Dn9%3A1rrl%0A79%3A6%3C4%11251 797

[Anders Östberg]

I love the shallow depth of field you get with a large aperture,
and also the low light capability of the 50/1.4. My examples:

"C#" (C sharp)
http://www.interimlocation.com/fretnomore/photo/10d/pictures/misc/c-sharp.jpg

Knock Out Greg concert
http://www.interimlocation.com/fretnomore/photo/10d/pictures/knockoutgreg_20031120/IMG_1136.jpg

[CyberDyneSystems]

Why doesn't somebody suggest that?

:?: :?: :?:

I think you just did 8)

[Sketcher]

I like your request belmondo! Actually, my $65.00 50mm 1.8 II is my most used lens. Most of my family and portraiture are done with this little gem. I think there's not much talk about the 50's (1.8 in particular) because they don't inspire lens envy and typically don't require selling body parts to acquire them.

Anyhoo, the below are snapshots from last week using the 50 1.8 II on my 10D. I cropped and edited the non-web versions and the prints turned out nice, these are *cough* Windows XP downsized and MS Paint pasted together for a quick family web post :oops:.


http://www.pbase.com/image/25718041/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/25718643/original.jpg

[Belmondo]

These are all amazing pictures. This is precisely what I was hoping for, and I hope you all maintain your links so we can refer people to this thread in the future. This exercise constitutes a very compelling argument against the notion that you need obscenely expensive lenses to get fantastic photos.

Sketcher. The baby is really cute. Now we need a picture of the new lens.

Tom :wink: :wink: :wink:

[Guillermo Freige]

Another one. This time at the other end of the ISO scale :)

http://gfreige.homelinux.org/gallery/photos/normal/DR_3234.jpg

[motophoto]

http://images.fotopic.net/?id=2653684&outx=980&oq=0

Straight out of the Camera with the exception of a re-size.

[dennykyser]

http://photos.photosig.com/photos/51/98/1139851-c384d46215e00840.jpg

[digitaljeff]

*** My first post ***

http://image.pbase.com/u38/digitaljeff/upload/24951280.IMG_1688R.jpg

This photograph was taken with a Canon EOS 10D and a EF 50 f1.4 USM lens, in the city of Arequipa, Peru.

iso 1600
f 2.5
1/125s & handheld

Abraços,

Jeffrey

[fishingjts]

my contribution... :wink:

http://www.tammyandjohn.com/PhotoAlbum/Sports/Gym_010904/pages/IMG_1530.htm

[sartobr]

http://www.pbase.com/image/25710440.jpg

[peter/c]

http://a3.cpimg.com/image/E5/07/29553893-7f7d-01900200-.jpg
Taken by natural light indoors.

[timmyquest]

I've been inspired, i truely think the 100-400 L and a nice 50mm will be all i'll need once i pay off my camera.

it's interseting that i'm reading this post, i just read an article (in FHM none the less) about Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides who when shot a photo of a women attempting to jump off of a very tall building was told by his editor sarcasticly "nice close up" he then ordered him a "huge telephoto" which he "hardly ever uses" instead, he insists most of his shots are taken with a 50mm

[hugodrax]

Available light candid taken with the 50mm 1.8 Lens in a Japanese Subway.

80 percent of my pictures are taken with my 50mm in available light situations the other 20 percent are done with the 28mm 2.8

http://www.pbase.com/image/24950675.jpg

[cole]

some locks and lockers

http://mscsdit.np.edu.sg/personal/yct/pics/lockers.jpg

the shallow dof is reli great...

sometimes too shallow...

http://mscsdit.np.edu.sg/personal/yct/pics/palette.jpg

[dal451]

This is my most used lens since April, 2004, when I got my 10d. I love this lens.

I tried to linke the pictures here directly but could not. Sorry. Here are two pics taken of my oldest son within the last month.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2118129

and

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2118236

Dale

[Lazyg]

It is small, light, fast, cheap, and sharp.

I only wish I would have purchased it much sooner.


http://65.34.54.194/images00/CRW_4198.jpg

BTW, please inform me if the picture doesn't show.

[karusel]

I tried to linke the pictures here directly but could not. Sorry. Here are two pics taken of my oldest son within the last month.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2118129
Dale

So, did he bump into a door or fell down some stairs?

:twisted: Sorry, I'm soo evil... just couldn't resist it... :twisted:

[dal451]

Actually, it was a chair with too much trampoline effect in our living room that propelled him right over the top, kept going and then face planted him on the hardwood floors. And somehow, just because I was in the same room with him, it became 'my fault' according to my wife. :o

Amazing thing is that 10 days later it was gone. That would have taken me 10 months to recover from. kids.