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Best normal prime lens for a Canon EOS 500D?

Started Jul 25, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP seta New Member • Posts: 3
Re: False premise; Any Canon 50mm lens is NOT a 'normal prime lens '

BAK wrote:

People are, of course, welcome to invent their own language, but in commonly accepted photo-talk, a normal lens provides a field of view that's "normal."

What normal is, numerically, varies depending on the camera and the size film it uses or the size of its sensor.

For a lens to be 'normal' for your camera, (which we refer to as having a cropped senor, or a 1.6 sensor, and known more formally as an APS-C camera) it should have a focal length somewhere in the 25 -35 mm range.

If you bought a so-called full frame camera, a normal lens would be in the 40 - 60mm range.

The Kodak Signet 35 had a permanent 44mm lens, and was my first good camera.

The Nikon S3 had a 50 mm interchangeable lens.

If you bought Hasselblad film camera that takes pictures 6 x 6 cm, a normal lens would be 80 mm.

If you bought a Bronica film camera that takes square pictures, the normal lens would be 75 mm, even tough the film is the same as the Hasselblad. There's a range that counts as normal.

And so on.

So if you want a normal prime lens, start looking at the 28mm, 30mm and 35mm lenses.

All that said, the 50mm f 1.8 STM lens is a fine prime short telephoto lens.

You are right, the 50mm Stm its a short telephoto lens, thanks! And i think its more close to what i am looking for than the 25-35mm.

BAK

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