Talk me into or out of the RF 50/1.8

EOSSpeedLite wrote:

Because ALL prime fast lenses will disappoint for certain combinations of background, model distance from the background, and photographer distance from the model.

Sure, the f1.2 will give you a better chance of getting the creamy awesome smooth bokeh you desire, and provide more bokeh possibilities for being faster, but to be so dismissive of the cheapo RF f1.8, thinking not to bother making portraits with it, is to not be informed.

In other words, you can make super high-priced portraits of super high quality with both RF 50s, even if the f1.2 will give you a more likelihood of getting the best bokeh.

It comes down to this: if the photographer has great skills, those skills will determine more than anything the quality of the portrait, and it's bokeh.

If you think this background from the cheapo $200 RF 50 f1.8 is sub-par, then I would say you are not being truthful:

I thought I basically said just what you did. The user's skills will overcome more then 1 F stop to be sure. Heck if I want to blow out the background I can easily do it with my RF70-200 f2.8L all day long. As you say and I said as well. adjusting subject from the background and one's own distance can make it happen. And quite frankly with today's processing power in DXO, InPixio or PhotoWorks all of which I have, I can blow the background out of the subject to taste regardless of the lens used. But the purists will just scream anyway regardless of the final results.