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Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM

Started Mar 18, 2014 | User reviews
Dan_168 Forum Pro • Posts: 11,061
Re: Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM

quiquae wrote:

Unlike the Zeiss and Nikon, EF 50mm F1.4 actually has autofocus, and unlike the Sigma 50mm, it doesn't double as a boat anchor. (That Sigma 50mm is almost as heavy as EF 50mm F1.2L!) With standard primes, compactness is a feature.

Sure, got your point, but unlike the EF 50 F1.4, they all has great built quality and has great optical performance wide open, and also balance very well on a camera, yeah, especially the sigma, balance great on my 1DS3. If compactness is "your future", there is mirror-less out there available, the new Sigma 50 1.4 Art lens is not going to be a "compact" lens either and I am glad is not, and I will put in my order as soon as I can.

Atoche
Atoche Contributing Member • Posts: 682
Re: Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM

crashpc wrote:

Thanks for advice, but I won´t pass on FF in next few years, so I feel comfortably with my choice. Maybe I wouldn´t listen to you as I love that FF wide open shots with shallow DoF and great light falloff at corners for special look and effect. Anyway it´s not gonna happen in near future. 40 is fine, but it does not deliver what I would like to, it´s slower, it fits less for portraits, so it propably goes away. While these are my only lenses now, I will be happy to get some 24mm and 100mm (not at once) primes instead of two similar lenses.

I love the 40mm, therefore I have 4 50mm lenses, but still have the 40stm

40mm STM, 5d

Same lens on crop 7d

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