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How much better is 50mm 1.8 over 22mm 2.0 in terms of taking portraits?

Started Jan 14, 2018 | Questions thread
chrisno Contributing Member • Posts: 925
Re: How much better is 50mm 1.8 over 22mm 2.0 in terms of taking portraits?

matrix44 wrote:

Thanks for the recommendation. I spent a lot of time researching this lens after you mentioned it, and I ended up ordering it last night for $173 shipped. Hope it doesn't take too long to get here from China (it has already been shipped).

This will be my first manual focus lens for the M6. I spent some time with my 22mm and 18-150mm (at 150mm for shallow DOF) in manual focus mode to see if I can live without AF. I was able to take plenty of sharp shots with focus peaking and some practice.

Since I only bought this lens for it's supposedly great bokeh, I will be shooting it wide open a lot. It will definitely take a lot more practice and patience to get used to MF at F/1.1. Looking forward to the challenge!

Oh, and I also just picked up a 50 1.8 STM, and my ef-m adapter arrives tomorrow, so it will be interesting to compare the two. I'll post on this forum as soon as I am able to do that comparison.

ps: This is my first post here!

You are welcomed!

I will get a piece of mine also just for the bokeh difference between 1.8 and 1.1.

Besides bokeh, 1.1 is very useful in tight areas because dof is so thin, you can blur the background behind the subjects even its a few inches apart.

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