50mm FOV lens for APS-C?

Andy01 wrote:

maboleth wrote:

Since I have returned to APS-C, I'm looking for a nice portrait lens that has around 50mm field of view on a FF.

While I know 35mm Sigma and other f1.4 variants are killer lenses, I have no funds for that.

So far I've been looking at these two:

Sigma 18-35mm f1.8
Canon 35mm f2 IS

Sigma offers more variety as it's a zoom lens. It's incredibly sharp with micro-details starting from f1.8 onward. The downside is the size (almost 800 grams), price and no IS.

Canon 35mm f2 IS is around 130 euros cheaper than Sigma, far more lighter (around 330g) and has IS. The downsize is slightly inferior IQ compared to Sigma in terms of contrast and sharpness at f2.

I have no experience with the Sigma and no experience with the EF 35mm f2 IS on a APS-C, but it produces VERY nice images on my 6D ii. It is sharp (even wide open), fast focusing, relatively compact/light and the IS works well.

The one thing it is definitely not good at is stars - it has pretty bad coma anywhere close to wide open.

When I was looking for a faster roughly 35mm lens, I found a video review (I can't remember who did it - it was one of the better known reviewers I think) that compared it with a few 35mm f1.4 lenses (including Canon's 35L ii) and it held up pretty well considering the vast price difference.

I have taken hand-held shots (no flash) in a museum at 1/10th & f5.6 where the information page in front of the display was perfectly readable, or indoor test subject at 1/8th & f2 that appears as sharp as I could want (even at 100%).

Thanks everyone. Yes, I'm mostly interested in working with it at f2 - f2.8. I think/hope bokeh is nice too, certainly even better than 50mm f1.8 STM.