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50mm lens poll

Started Aug 30, 2015 | Polls
cybersimba
cybersimba Senior Member • Posts: 1,724
50mm lens poll

If affordability was not the criteria and you are in market for 50mm prime lens, which one would you buy?

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Canon 50mm 1.8 II
1.1% 1  vote
Canon 50mm 1.8 STM
10.5% 10  votes
Canon 50mm 1.4
4.2% 4  votes
Canon 50mm 1.2 L
43.2% 41  votes
Canon Lens FD 50mm 1:18
1.1% 1  vote
Sigma ART 50mm 1.4
35.8% 34  votes
Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM (non ART)
0.0% 0  votes
Samyang Samyang SY50M-C EF 50mm
0.0% 0  votes
Samyang Cine DS SYDS50M-C 50mm
0.0% 0  votes
Youngnuo 50mm 1.8
0.0% 0  votes
Any other 50mm for Canon mount
4.2% 4  votes
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Abu Mahendra Veteran Member • Posts: 5,312
Re: 50mm lens poll
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You omitted possibly the best FF 50mm after the Otus: the Sony Zeiss FE 50/1.8

That's my choice in today's market.

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Great Bustard Forum Pro • Posts: 45,641
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Abu Mahendra wrote:

You omitted possibly the best FF 50mm after the Otus: the Sony Zeiss FE 50/1.8

That's my choice in today's market.

It works on a Canon body?

cybersimba
OP cybersimba Senior Member • Posts: 1,724
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Great Bustard wrote:

Abu Mahendra wrote:

You omitted possibly the best FF 50mm after the Otus: the Sony Zeiss FE 50/1.8

That's my choice in today's market.

It works on a Canon body?

hmm, actually I am also not sure. Before I started the poll I actually looked up amazon to find all 50mm lenses for canon and had I seen zeiss I would have listed it there. Perhaps I missed it but did not omit it intentionally or anything and just like Great Bustard asked I don't even know if its available for canon mount either.

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cybersimba
OP cybersimba Senior Member • Posts: 1,724
Re: 50mm lens poll
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cybersimba wrote:

Great Bustard wrote:

Abu Mahendra wrote:

You omitted possibly the best FF 50mm after the Otus: the Sony Zeiss FE 50/1.8

That's my choice in today's market.

It works on a Canon body?

hmm, actually I am also not sure. Before I started the poll I actually looked up amazon to find all 50mm lenses for canon and had I seen zeiss I would have listed it there. Perhaps I missed it but did not omit it intentionally or anything and just like Great Bustard asked I don't even know if its available for canon mount either.

Actually I don't feel bad that I did not list it. Here is why. First of all it does not even fit the question on my poll. My question was 50mm lenses and not 55mm. Zeiss lens is 55mm. yes it is available for Canon and Nikon both but again its 55mm.

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brightcolours Forum Pro • Posts: 15,885
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Abu Mahendra wrote:

You omitted possibly the best FF 50mm after the Otus: the Sony Zeiss FE 50/1.8

There is no Sony Zeiss FE 50mm f1.8.  Also, no Sony Zeiss will fit EOS. Weird suggestion!

That's my choice in today's market.

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brightcolours Forum Pro • Posts: 15,885
None of the above.
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cybersimba wrote:

If affordability was not the criteria and you are in market for 50mm prime lens, which one would you buy?

If affordability was not "the criteria"? I would get a Canon 50mm f1.0 L USM for sure.

arty H Senior Member • Posts: 1,546
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I have two 50 mm lenses, the Canon 50 F1.4 and the Sigma 50 F2.8 macro lens. Once you are at F2.8, the F1.4 lens is fine. Contrast is not as good as I would like when the Canon is at larger apertures, like F2 or wider. Th Sigma is a great macro lens, and produces fine results in decent light...but it is F2.8. AF is accurate on the Sigma.

I am still waiting for a Canon fast 50 with USM and IS.

Steve W Veteran Member • Posts: 6,999
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50mm is too picky. I would consider 40 - 58 as being a normal lens With that if I could afford the Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 I'd buy it in a heartbeat.  If you wouldn't use it because its 55mm your really not interested in the best of the best IMHO.

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OP cybersimba Senior Member • Posts: 1,724
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Steve W wrote:

50mm is too picky. I would consider 40 - 58 as being a normal lens With that if I could afford the Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 I'd buy it in a heartbeat. If you wouldn't use it because its 55mm your really not interested in the best of the best IMHO.

Well its not that I excluded Zeiss because its 55mm. I truly wanted a poll on 50mm so I listed the ones I could find and also put category as "Other" for any other lenses. At that time I also did not know that Zeiss was 55mm. So its not like I have any dislike for Zeiss or anything for it being best or it being expensive. However to  the benefit of those who pointed out about Zeiss, I tried to withdraw poll but I could not as it had one reply/comment etc. So I thought its not worth worrying about this and let people have in comments section how much they like Zeiss if they do. Having said that I also realized that Zeiss being 55mm anyway does not fit the title of the poll. So not a big deal anyway.

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MayaTlab0 Senior Member • Posts: 2,985
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The 50 STM without a doubt.

But what I'd really, really like to get is an outstanding 50mm f2 IS USM. By outstanding, I mean "35mm f14L II MTF figures" sort of outstanding.

Great Bustard Forum Pro • Posts: 45,641
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MayaTlab0 wrote:

The 50 STM without a doubt.

That's the best bang-for-the-buck prime there is.

But what I'd really, really like to get is an outstanding 50mm f2 IS USM. By outstanding, I mean "35mm f14L II MTF figures" sort of outstanding.

I'd be all over it.  However, more likely, methinks, but still not likely anytime soon, or, perhaps, ever, is a 50 / 2.8 IS Macro with those specs.

Rick Knepper
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Zeiss Otus 55mm
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Zeiss ZE 50/2 Makro

Zeiss ZE 50/1.4 even.

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Once you've done fifty, everything else is iffy.

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diness Veteran Member • Posts: 3,758
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Why did anyone pick the 50mm 1.8 II?

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diness wrote:

Why did anyone pick the 50mm 1.8 II?

Wow so far 50 1.2 L rules even though Sigma 1.4 is sharpest! Amazing! There must be really something unique about that lens.

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Great Bustard Forum Pro • Posts: 45,641
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cybersimba wrote:

diness wrote:

Why did anyone pick the 50mm 1.8 II?

Wow so far 50 1.2 L rules even though Sigma 1.4 is sharpest! Amazing! There must be really something unique about that lens.

Nah -- just stupid people who don't realize what a piece of junkthat lens is. 

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OP cybersimba Senior Member • Posts: 1,724
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Great Bustard wrote:

cybersimba wrote:

diness wrote:

Why did anyone pick the 50mm 1.8 II?

Wow so far 50 1.2 L rules even though Sigma 1.4 is sharpest! Amazing! There must be really something unique about that lens.

Nah -- just stupid people who don't realize what a piece of junkthat lens is.

with you! Thanks for sharing "piece of junk" photos

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ms18
ms18 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,530
Why?

No text.

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brightcolours Forum Pro • Posts: 15,885
Re: Why?

ms18 wrote:

Very unusual lens with interesting/unusul rendering, and the most shallow DOG you can get in this focal length and amazing flares. I want one, quirky as it is.

http://journal.bryansoderlind.com/uncategorized/f1.html

http://www.dcfever.com/column/read.php?id=1892

NancyP Veteran Member • Posts: 6,608
Re: Zeiss Otus 55mm

Otus. If money is no object

In Real Life: Sigma Art 50mm f/1.4

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