So Canon has refreshed a lot of their lenses lately, including the ever so popular must have - the nifty fifty, aka the 50mm f1.8. It now has 7 aperture blades (up from 5), giving it rounder nice bokeh, a metal base (making it supposedly more durable), all time manual focus ring among other not so blatantly obvious upgrades. Price wise, AUD$159 was what I bought it for, a bit more expensive than the old one but still reasonable for a cheap portrait lens for people looking for bokehliciousness on a budget.
Here's a test shot I took.
Very first impressions:
- wide open, around f1.8-2.8 still suffers sharpness wise, chromatic abberations are easily noticeable. f2.8 is the minimum i would say, to get acceptable picture sharpness.
- coming from the old 50mm f1.8 II, I love the build quality, feels more solid in the hand, and the all-time manual focus ring is fun and very controlled in its focusing track
- focus speeds are much faster (or at least, feel that way)
will test the lens out more, and report back soon :)
-m1n9-
