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What are the uses of a high quality 50mm lens?

Started Jul 23, 2018 | Discussions thread
Barry Pearson
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Re: What are the uses of a high quality 50mm lens?

James O'Neill wrote:

"High quality" is a always a dangerous term because it is a euphemism for expensive and various other things.

The first line of my original post was:

I'm examining the question "what use could I make of the D FA* 50mm f/1.4 lens?"

So I'm specifically interested in the special attributes of that lens.

Early in my working career I was a company which had embraced Japanese-style quality philosophy and we got taught that "Quality is meeting the customers needs". The product which the customer can't afford doesn't meet their needs.

I worked for a company (ICL) that adopted Crosby's principles. That is number 1.

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But here's a question a 28-105 is a 28 , a 29, a 30 ... a 104 and a 105 all in one, you can always you the optimal focal length. But your 28-105 stats (and mine) show more than half the pictures are taken at the two extreme focal lengths (you'd use longer or wider if you had them) So a 28, a 135 and a 43 or 50 or 77 might be a better solution

There's often not enough time to change lenses.

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