What can you do with a cheap lens? 1: outdoors

Alastair Norcross wrote:

Given the shutter speed this is excellent timing. Well done.

Some hate the fact that Canon has this 50 and the big heavy and expensive 50 F1.2, and no 50 in between.

Some do, and others are deeply disappointed.

I'm fine with it, because I would have bought this one, and not the in between one anyway. I hope, for the sake of those whose lives are blighted by the lack of the in-between option, that Canon comes out with what you want at some point.

That's just so nice. In the name of "all of those whose lives are blighted": Thanks for your hoping.

I'm happy with this one. And with the other affordable RF primes.

I love happy people.

Live and let live.

Somehow I do not feel entirely free to express my own opinion on this lens completely in this topic, but let me say I agree with you it's value for money and it's performance lives up to what you might expect from it given it's size and weight. The lens is small, light and affordable. You could even argue it punches a bit above it's price point even if the same is true for some other lenses for other systems.

The probably in this topic forbidden thing to say is I do not entirely agree with everything you're stating about it's image quality, so let me just say that's probably forbidden to say here. There's also no need to say it as it's discussed before in another topic in a - in my opinion - pretty constructive manner, and I have no problem to continue the debate there if I feel the need to do so.