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Talk me into or out of the RF 50/1.8

Started 10 months ago | Discussions thread
EOSSpeedLite Contributing Member • Posts: 640
Re: You'll Be Disappointed by the f1.2 Too!
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thunder storm wrote:

ProDude wrote:

will just scream

What's the need really to frame debating style of conversation partners having another opinion than you like this.

Let's just try to disagree respectfully.

Yes, agreed, but it helps if one is not so quickly dismissive of the abilities of the consumer-grade kit.  Doing so suggests that it's all about the kit, and not the skills of the photographer, which is a falsehood.

Let's not quash the hopes of others who desire to produce excellent images, but who can only afford consumer-grade lenses.

And let's not reject the fact, the reality, that a photographer who knows what he/she's doing can take most consumer-grade lenses and create awesome, fantastic art with them.

To take a screenshot of 3% of the bokeh of an image and use that to make the case that the cheap lens used is crap and should never be used for portraits is elitist, and arrogant, especially when that sample proves little.

We all know and agree that the RF 50L can result in better bokeh, sharpness, micro-contrast, and less CA...but to suggest that the RF 50 f1.8 should be dismissed for portraits is just plain wrong.

You made the same error with the RF 35 f1.8 as well, and even after showing you examples proving you wrong, you doubled down with the RF 50 f1.8.

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