 | excellent lens!
rating: 5
excellent fixed lens. Works well on my nikon d50. Apperature range works great for all lighting conditions. If you are using a DSLR this lens ends up working like a 75mm lens so if you are looking for a straight up 50mm lens, make sure you buy a dedicated digital lens (DX lens for nikon users). All in all a fantastic lens for the money.
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Great Lens
rating: 5
This lens is great, and works really well for the price. Just have to be a little more careful with it as the rear threads are made of plastic, but hold up really well.
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great lens for the price
rating: 5
The lens is soft at f1.8 but gets super sharp at f5.6 and above. For $100 or so, you can't beat this lens. If you want to go a step up, I'd go for the new Nikon AF-S 50mm f1.4 that just came out, although I think the price is about 3x this.
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incredible value for the price - fun lens very useful to have
rating: 5
incredible value for the price - fun lens very useful to have.
Highly recommended.
Easy to carry around.
Gives you a lot of light indoors, and great to take portraits.
Only negative point is that at 50mm it becomes 75mm on an aps camera (most cameras) which is too narrow.
If you have x4 the money to spend, then get a 30mm like the sigma f1.4.
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Great lens if you know its limitations of not being sharp until f/4 and that is not really for very low-light photography
rating: 5
I have now used this lens daily with a Nikon D90 for the past 1 week, shooting approximately 2000 photos with it.
It is a great lens and amazing for the price, but one should be very careful in understanding its limitations and the difference between it and the much more expensive Nikkor 50mm f/1.4.
PROS:
1. Very inexpensive (costing 1/3 of the Nikkor 50mm f/1.4)
2. Sharp if stopped down to f/4
3. Ideal to shoot indoors if the space is not small as it is effectively a 75 mm lens with the DX sensor cropping factor of 1.5
4. Very low barrel distortion
CONS:
1. It would be disappointing if one purchased this thinking that it could be used for excellent low-light photography when shot wide open at f/1.8
2. At f/1.8, there is significant softness in the image even if it is focused properly
3. At f/1.8, the depth of field is so narrow, that it requires significant effort to make sure you are properly focused. Otherwise you will have 2 sources of "softness", one from the out-of-focus regions, and the other being the inherent softness that's present for apertures greater than f/4
4. To shoot with optimal sharpness, it needs to be stopped down to f/4 (at f/2.8 the image is still very good, however)
This is a great lens as long as one does not expect that it will deliver tack sharp results when used wide open under f/4. This in itself will disappoint those who expect to shoot in very low light as f/4 can be achieved with a zoom.
The much more expensive Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 is sharp from f/2 but equals the 50mm f/1.8 lens at around f/4.
It still one of my favorite lenses as it delivers great image quality with very low distortion when used at f/4 or smaller apertures.
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