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The Canon 50mm f/1.8 II is cheap and cheerful but is it up to the job?This is an inexpensive and light lens, but it shows in the very plasticky construction, right down to the lens mount, which won't take the same amount of abuse as a metal one. The...
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Optical image stabilisation is actually more important for telephoto lenses than it is for wide-angle lenses as camera shake gets amplified at telephoto...
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The Canon EF 50mm f1.8 II is the manufacturer's cheapest 50mm lens. Canon also makes f1.4 and f1.2 versions, but both cost more money. So does this cheap and cheerful lens provide enough quality to make it a viable alternative? Very inexpensive Low vi...
For anyone who's been shooting with a kit zoom lens, a prime fixed lens such as this one will be a huge improvement in image quality. I'd recommend this lens to anyone who wants to take their photography a step further, without spending a lot of money...
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Canon 50mm f/1.8EF II (1990-today)© 2010 KenRockwell.com. All rights reserved. Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II (52mm filters, 4.320 oz/122.5g, about $99). . I'd get it at or . It helps me keep adding to this site when you get yours from those link...
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The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II may be a "cheap" lens but it is undoubtedly a capable one. It shares its characteristics with most other 50mm lenses, reads: its somewhat soft at f/1.8 but at medium aperture settings it is hard to beat with respect to reso...
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(From Canon lens literature) This is the lightest EF lens of all at a mere 4.6 oz. (130g). Compact and high-performance, standard lens. Its Gaussian optics provide sharp delineation from near to far focusing distances. The color balance is excellent fo...
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The 50mm focal length delivers standard coverage on a full-frame body, or 80mm equivalent on a Canon APS-C body, which acts like a short telephoto. The f1.8 focal ratio can deliver a very shallow depth-of-field, allowing you to place a sharp subject again...
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This lens is one of 6 different 50mm lenses that we did a shootout with. Senior tech Jim Tanner wrote up the test results for each lens on a comparative basis, with charts and graphs showing how each lens did compared to the others in the test. The graphs...
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Canon 50mm Lenses Compared© 2013 KenRockwell.com. All rights reserved. October 2013 This free website's biggest source of is when you use those or any of when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you...
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This is the second of a three part series on choosing the most suitable lenses for Canon's entry-level full frame camera, the EOS 6D. The 20-Mpix CMOS' sensor used is similar in architecture to that in Canon's hugely popular full-frame EOS 5D Mk III, a ca...
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In the lead up to Photokina 2012, Canon announced the new Canon EOS 6D full-frame entry-point model within days of Nikon publicizing their most-affordable full-frame camera to date, the 24-Mpix D600. While the EOS 6D boasted some attention grabbing featur...
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In the first part of our comprehensive lens recommendations for the new entry-level Canon EOS Rebel T5 / 1200D, we've assessed a raft of primes from both the maker and third parties to see how well they perform on the camera. As well as highlighting the b...
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