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HENRY'S CANCELLING ORDERS on 45mm f/1.8 (purchased at $199 sale price)

Started Aug 1, 2013 | Discussions thread
Timmbits
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Re: Lens

tecnoworld wrote:

Good th hear that everything went fine. Now, how do you like your new lens???? I personally love the 45mm. At present it's my most used lens.

I only snapped a couple of pictures of my daughter indoors last night. First thing I noticed is that the white-balance presets in the camera seem to work better with this lens, than with the 30mm. (I do have a recent version of firmware in my camera). There is a paper in the packaging telling you to update the firmware to get correct color balance.  So the natural skin tones seem to be correct right out of the box, whereas the 30mm required adjusting to most images.

The second thing that I noticed, is that the depth of field is rather narrow at 1.8, which is a good thing. On the other hand, care must be taken to make sure your focus is spot on - taking her head from the side, I got focus on strands of hair and her eyes were out of focus - this showed me how narrow it is, and that I will have to get used to this. I'll have to do more playing around with it to get more used to it and the camera combination. (I nave an NX20)

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