Red Mosquito

Nice. Welcome to the thread ABN.

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i really like that one. if it wasn't so sharp i'd almost think it was a turn-of-the-century portrait

mf wrote:^
i really like that one. if it wasn't so sharp i'd almost think it was a turn-of-the-century portrait

Thanks, Mike.

I love the 50mm lens, but it's weird for shooting anything but portraits or close-ish people shots. Have you ever attached a wide-angle adapter to your 50mm? Will that make it better for shooting landscapes, street scenes, etc?

turned2black wrote:

mf wrote:^
i really like that one. if it wasn't so sharp i'd almost think it was a turn-of-the-century portrait

Thanks, Mike.

I love the 50mm lens, but it's weird for shooting anything but portraits or close-ish people shots. Have you ever attached a wide-angle adapter to your 50mm? Will that make it better for shooting landscapes, street scenes, etc?

Yeah it's not a particularly useful lens for landscapes since you're already zoomed in a fair bit. but ideally you should probably be shooting landscapes at a medium f-stop (f6 to f11 or so depending on the lens) so the benefits of the 50mm (specifically the 1.8 f-stop) aren't being used anyways. i haven't used a wide angle adapter though i suppose you could but i'd be worried about unwanted distortion and those adapters tend to be pretty cheap. you're probably better off just switching lenses to your wide angle zoom as needed.

interestingly enough though i've been playing around with this doubler that i have. When i use it with my 50mm it works as a pretty nifty little macro though because the doubler is old and fully manual, the lens now is to. It's pretty tricky to use and get the focus right...incredibly shallow depth of field

mf wrote:

turned2black wrote:

mf wrote:^
i really like that one. if it wasn't so sharp i'd almost think it was a turn-of-the-century portrait

Thanks, Mike.

I love the 50mm lens, but it's weird for shooting anything but portraits or close-ish people shots. Have you ever attached a wide-angle adapter to your 50mm? Will that make it better for shooting landscapes, street scenes, etc?

Yeah it's not a particularly useful lens for landscapes since you're already zoomed in a fair bit. but ideally you should probably be shooting landscapes at a medium f-stop (f6 to f11 or so depending on the lens) so the benefits of the 50mm (specifically the 1.8 f-stop) aren't being used anyways. i haven't used a wide angle adapter though i suppose you could but i'd be worried about unwanted distortion and those adapters tend to be pretty cheap. you're probably better off just switching lenses to your wide angle zoom as needed.

interestingly enough though i've been playing around with this doubler that i have. When i use it with my 50mm it works as a pretty nifty little macro though because the doubler is old and fully manual, the lens now is to. It's pretty tricky to use and get the focus right...incredibly shallow depth of field

Thanks. Yeah, the reviews on adding the wide-angle adapter are mixed at best. It's only $30, so I figure I'll just go for it. Now that I've used the 50mm, the images I'm getting from the stock lens are so crappy in comparison (tons of noise and just dull) that I'll probably end up buying another wide-angle zoom lens.

turned2black wrote:

mf wrote:

turned2black wrote:

mf wrote:^
i really like that one. if it wasn't so sharp i'd almost think it was a turn-of-the-century portrait

Thanks, Mike.

I love the 50mm lens, but it's weird for shooting anything but portraits or close-ish people shots. Have you ever attached a wide-angle adapter to your 50mm? Will that make it better for shooting landscapes, street scenes, etc?

Yeah it's not a particularly useful lens for landscapes since you're already zoomed in a fair bit. but ideally you should probably be shooting landscapes at a medium f-stop (f6 to f11 or so depending on the lens) so the benefits of the 50mm (specifically the 1.8 f-stop) aren't being used anyways. i haven't used a wide angle adapter though i suppose you could but i'd be worried about unwanted distortion and those adapters tend to be pretty cheap. you're probably better off just switching lenses to your wide angle zoom as needed.

interestingly enough though i've been playing around with this doubler that i have. When i use it with my 50mm it works as a pretty nifty little macro though because the doubler is old and fully manual, the lens now is to. It's pretty tricky to use and get the focus right...incredibly shallow depth of field

Thanks. Yeah, the reviews on adding the wide-angle adapter are mixed at best. It's only $30, so I figure I'll just go for it. Now that I've used the 50mm, the images I'm getting from the stock lens are so crappy in comparison (tons of noise and just dull) that I'll probably end up buying another wide-angle zoom lens.

Haha, the lens bug bites again! Before you get into buying all of the different kinds of lenses out there, take a minute to read Ken Rockwell's guide on assembling a camera system, and pay special attention to the part on lens coverage. He makes some great points on how with 2 or 3 carefully selected lenses you can do everything you want....it's much better to learn this when starting out than later on when you've got a bag full of specialized lenses and big gaps in your coverage. He's a Nikon guy so a lot of his lens examples won't match up with what's available for Canon but the advice is sound.

mf wrote:

turned2black wrote:

mf wrote:

turned2black wrote:

mf wrote:^
i really like that one. if it wasn't so sharp i'd almost think it was a turn-of-the-century portrait

Thanks, Mike.

I love the 50mm lens, but it's weird for shooting anything but portraits or close-ish people shots. Have you ever attached a wide-angle adapter to your 50mm? Will that make it better for shooting landscapes, street scenes, etc?

Yeah it's not a particularly useful lens for landscapes since you're already zoomed in a fair bit. but ideally you should probably be shooting landscapes at a medium f-stop (f6 to f11 or so depending on the lens) so the benefits of the 50mm (specifically the 1.8 f-stop) aren't being used anyways. i haven't used a wide angle adapter though i suppose you could but i'd be worried about unwanted distortion and those adapters tend to be pretty cheap. you're probably better off just switching lenses to your wide angle zoom as needed.

interestingly enough though i've been playing around with this doubler that i have. When i use it with my 50mm it works as a pretty nifty little macro though because the doubler is old and fully manual, the lens now is to. It's pretty tricky to use and get the focus right...incredibly shallow depth of field

Thanks. Yeah, the reviews on adding the wide-angle adapter are mixed at best. It's only $30, so I figure I'll just go for it. Now that I've used the 50mm, the images I'm getting from the stock lens are so crappy in comparison (tons of noise and just dull) that I'll probably end up buying another wide-angle zoom lens.

Haha, the lens bug bites again! Before you get into buying all of the different kinds of lenses out there, take a minute to read Ken Rockwell's guide on assembling a camera system, and pay special attention to the part on lens coverage. He makes some great points on how with 2 or 3 carefully selected lenses you can do everything you want....it's much better to learn this when starting out than later on when you've got a bag full of specialized lenses and big gaps in your coverage. He's a Nikon guy so a lot of his lens examples won't match up with what's available for Canon but the advice is sound.

I'll read through that for sure. I'm gonna get my RX-100 in the next couple of days, so I'll probably be playing with that for a couple of weeks. Then I'll decide on a new lens for the SL1.

I don't really know what the hell I'm doing, so I appreciate the guidance.

For my upgrade to a "good" camera, I went back and forth, and ended up getting an Fuji X100s. Fixed 35mm equiv. focal length. Not once in the last year have I missed having another lens/focal length to hand. And I upgraded from an 18x superzoom, so was very used to having a bunch of options.

The only thing is I'll have to grab a cheap old DSLR/tele lens combo for when I hit the game parks in South Africa.

ABNorman wrote:For my upgrade to a "good" camera, I went back and forth, and ended up getting an Fuji X100s. Fixed 35mm equiv. focal length. Not once in the last year have I missed having another lens/focal length to hand. And I upgraded from an 18x superzoom, so was very used to having a bunch of options.

The only thing is I'll have to grab a cheap old DSLR/tele lens combo for when I hit the game parks in South Africa.

Yeah there's a certain appeal to having a real nice fixed point and shoot with full manual control. i've been wanting to buy my wife a Powershot G-series for a while now if i can scrape up the cash but that x100s looks pretty damn snazzy too.

I love my X100S. I'll never sell it. It's basically all I shoot with (other than my phone).

Finally made it out with the RX-100.

Left-overs.