yeah come on guys we don't buy a 50 inch hdtv and watch it 3 inches away. It's all about viewing distance, I've had billboards printed out from 10mpx files and they look just fine :)
Thanks again guys :) All I want to shoot is portraits I don't care about the wide angle lens. I know the 50 mm on a crop body was just a bit too long for indoor, which means it will be perfect on a FF body and one day when I have money ( which is probably never going to happen :) :) ) I just need to get the 85mm 1.8 and I…
On a crop body, an 85 isn´t as important as on a full frame. Get a nice 50 and you´re set, you don´t need the extra compression of an 85. You´re much harder up to find good actual wide angle lenses on a crop than good portrait lenses.
Well, that Canon EF 85mm 1.8 lens is known to be just about the sharpest lens you can get, this side of the 50/85mm 1.2, and even then, I dont think there is any real difference between sharpness with those lenses and yours. Just speed, weight, build quality and that fancy red stripe.
Zoom lenses suck. Price, technology, and creatively. Get prime lenses. A 35 equiv, a 50 equiv, and and an 85 equiv, all f/2 or faster. I've married myself to a 35mm f/2 for a year and am not shooting with anything else. That f/4-5.6 lens is going to suck in anything other than broad daylight. You'll see.
I did not read everything so far but I would second Fomori advise- the body is really not so important and if you are spending money on something it better be the lens. Also the price of the lens if you get them second hand will not drop as fast as the price of the camera body. I got the d90 and the 50 mm f1.8 and i love…
I actually really like the 50mm-85mm range for macro, IMO tubes+your 50 would work pretty well. With a longer lens it can be much harder to get a steady shot handheld, and the working distance is going to be pretty far. I used a 100mm macro for a while and I just felt like I had to be too far from the subject. I used my…
I did explain why, in my bit about people changing sizes based on framing and being compositionally lazy. Sorry, that's not true about crop vs full frame. You are forgetting distance. If one were to keep the distance the same and shoot with a 50mm on a crop, and then a 50mm on a full frame, the perspective distortion would…
Yes, they use microlens channels that are scattered in a random array. This makes them visually brighter, but inaccurate at showing true focus, as they "grab and display" out of focus rays (which is how they are brighter). The focusing aid screens use perfectly parallel lens channels that show only what's in focus. They…
Yeah..but it becomes somewhat bearable if you have a good focusing screen + huge viewfinder. I have a Katzeye screen installed in my D700 and focusing fast mf lenses is ok, I get the occasional oof shot with a 35/1.4 and 105/25 (although that's probably because of my own body movement) Still, nothing compared to using a…