Canon 50mm f1.8 really the best?

[David444]

It was a Nikon hood BTW.

 

[nathey6]

I will never recommend this lens to anyone. The focus is slow, noisy, and inaccurate in low light. Build quality is embarrassing, here is a photo of a friends lens after he extended a simple collapsible hood.
<img src="http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=39554"/>

Go for the 1.4

I have had this lens ( the 1.8 ) for a while on my rebel 2000 and have no complaints whatsoever. It is amazing for the money. Your friend must have gotten a defected one.

 

[nathey6]

I have had this lens (the 1.8) for a while on my rebel 2000 and have no complaints whatsoever. It is amazing for the money. Your friend must have gotten a defected one.

I meant to write one point eight, but it made it into a face! Lol

 

[David444]

I will never recommend this lens to anyone. The focus is slow, noisy, and inaccurate in low light. Build quality is embarrassing, here is a photo of a friends lens after he extended a simple collapsible hood.
<img src="http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=39554"/>

Go for the 1.4

I have had this lens ( the 1.8 ) for a while on my rebel 2000 and have no complaints whatsoever. It is amazing for the money. Your friend must have gotten a defected one.

Maybe, but it's not uncommon for this lens to end up in two pieces.

 

[Derrel]

I owned the Canon 50/1.8-II for a while. I found that when shot toward the sun, it flared really,really badly. Focus was noisy, and erratic. I gave it to my wife's nephew when he went off to art school to study photography in Seattle. I replaced it with a 50/1.4 EF, which has been a MUCH better lens; I have owned a good number of 50mm lenses over the decades; I think the Canon 50/1.4 EF is, all around, the "prettiest" imager I've ever owned in a 50mm lens. Best drawing style, best bokeh, excellent flare and ghost resistance, and overall, SOLID performance. It is a better lens than many older Nikkor 50's, in my opinion. I think it's biggest strengths are the way it draws, and its bokeh. The 1.8 mode has bad bokeh, and horrible flare against the light. T.Campbell's post does a good job of enumerating some of the other issues the 1.8 model has.

 

[Josh66]

It's basically the cheapest lens you can buy. It's not bad, but I would never call it the best.

For the money, it's pretty much impossible to beat - you will not find a better lens for less money. (you will also not find a lens (period) for less money...)

Just a guess, but I think it's probably a pretty rare occurrence for "the cheapest" lens to also be "the best" lens...


It seems to me like it's the lens everyone uses till they can either afford the 1.4 version or realize that it has crap for build quality.

 

[texkam]

I think most know what we're getting into when they go the the nifty fifty route. How many out there are sitting at a particle board and plastic laminate desk?

 

[Josh66]

I think most know what we're getting into when they go the the nifty fifty route. How many out there are sitting at a particle board and plastic laminate desk?

Not sure if that is in reply to me or not... I'm not saying that it's a "bad" lens (it's not), but calling it 'the best' is a pretty far stretch...

The fact is, it's the cheapest lens you can buy - do you really expect that to also be the 'best' - even 'the best 50mm'?

 

[texkam]

^ Nope. Just in general.

Sometimes something cheap will get the job done to the degree that it matters.

 

[andysher]

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[bluehouse]

It has very nice celerity, I have heard about this lots of times.

 

[o hey tyler]

It has very nice celerity

 

[Rafterman]

Tyler, your sarcasm always gets a chuckle out me.

For the money, it's pretty much impossible to beat - you will not find a better lens for less money.

Are you talking about only Canon lenses? I ask because the Nikon 50mm 1.8D is only about $10 more than the Canon and is a great lens in its own right.

 

[Steve5D]

What's a better $100.00 lens?

 

[o hey tyler]

What's a better $100.00 lens?

Contacts or prescription eye wear.