Just wanted to kn if Canon FD 50mm Lens 1.8 any good use

I used one for a while until i got my 1.4 and it worked great. Breathed a lot, but looked fine. Next stop: f1.2 (pun intended).

Ben, that was a bad one.
Good job.
:)

Hey all, after being pipped so many times recently I have just won a FD 50mm 1.4 , 85mm 1.8 an 135mm 2.5 been a big day on the bay £98 the lot..

next on the list a fast wide..!

Any ideas, is the difference betweeh 28 and 24mm that noticeable? the prices certainly think so..

Oh the 50mm 1.8 is a good starter - check out Declans footage posted recently..

The difference between focal lengths becomes increasingly apparent the shorter you go. The difference between 130mm and 135mm is negligible, but the difference between 20mm and 24mm is a big one. I have both a 24mm and a 28mm and there's definitely a discernable difference. Not huge, but it's there.

Also keep in mind that the shorter you go, the more important it is to have a large aperture. A 24mm F2.0 lens gives equivalent depth of field to a 50mm F4.0 lens. That is pretty dark. So you have to be careful, otherwise you'll buy yourself a vignetting machine.

This is very true.

Most 28mm lenses are F2.8, but can you get a lower F stop number? I guess you can, but at what cost?

Hey all, after being pipped so many times recently I have just won a FD 50mm 1.4 , 85mm 1.8 an 135mm 2.5 been a big day on the bay £98 the lot..



I was probably one of the 'pippers'. won a 1.4 on ebay two days ago. £49 (sigh)

still, look forward to it arriving!

There are some 28mm and 24mm F2.0's out there which are very inexpensive. Then there is the Sigma 20mm F1.8 which is superior but not as cheap, though still very inexpensive compared to anything else out there. It works far better than a one-element wide angle adapter on the front of your camcorder lens. It is the one worth spending the money on, because there are plenty of inexpensive 50-55mm F1.2-1.4 lenses and 85mm F1.5-1.8's out there.

I also recommend a constant aperture zoom (can hold F2.8 all the way through the lens' focal length range) for "run and gun" work. Commonly found lenses are 24-70mm, 28-70mm, and 28-100mm.

I wish someone made a 17-100mm F2.8 but no such luck! I would even settle for a 20-100mm F2.8, but still no luck :)

One more thing,

to put some real numbers to my "noticeable difference" remark earlier, here are some fairly standard angle of view numbers:

400mm: 6 degrees
300mm: 8 deg
200mm: 12 deg
135mm: 18 deg
100mm: 24 deg
80mm: 30 deg
70mm: 34 deg
60mm: 40 deg
50mm: 46 deg
40mm: 57 deg
35mm: 63 deg
28mm: 75 deg
24mm: 84 deg
20mm: 95 deg
17mm: 104 deg
15mm: 110 deg
12mm: 122 deg
Fisheyes: 180 deg!

I would give credit to the source but sadly that is not a cut-and-paste list; it's typed up from my many days spent indulging my lens fetish.

Bill,

Great list. But can you explain a bit further to put sense into them numbers? I understand what you mean, but how is that measured? Is it measure from the image plane? Like the 50mm lenes, is it 46 deg. either side of the optical axis, or the total from both sides? Am i making sense?

Fisheyes: 180 deg!

Obviously the total angle, thanks.

*Homer Simpson voice* Mmmm....360 degree lens....

Where can i get this 360 deg. lens? Well it have distortion? ;)

Hehehe, sorry:D

No, but it does exhibit vignetting in the corners.

Hhhmm. They must call this "the eye of God" lens. Knows all, sees all.

360 degree lens is achieveable. It is a mirrored surface like the inside of a ball - they have had it out for about 10 years I think (if my memory serves me correct). Do a search for 360 degree images in photography and you might find it.

Bill you said 1.2 50mm cheap? I think they are cheap compared to the original retail price, but the last one I saw on ebay went for about $300.00. Most photographers say these lenses are ashtrays now, but try to get one to give them away!

Also, I had heard a rumour that Canon made a .97 50mm lens - now that would be fast!!

Bill you said 1.2 50mm cheap?


I said 50-55mm F1.2-1.4. Some of the lenses I see for "cheap" are FD/FL mount Canon glass, 55mm F1.2. I have seen them under two hundred dollars. Another good one is the 50mm F1.4. I have seen SMC ones go for $40.

The 50mm Canon lens you have heard of is either the newer (first started making them 15+ years ago) EF mount F1.0 (these run about $2600 new) or the old early 1960's S-mount F0.95. They now run about $500 but I wouldn't want to use a lens that old with that mount. I'm more than happy with a 1.2-1.4.

Link for a fast wide for any nikon F mount lense users..



http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sigma-28mm-F1-8-Aspheric-M-F-lens-Nikon-Fit_W0QQitemZ7567018112QQcategoryZ48556QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=so&sbrftog=1&fstype=1&catref=C6&from=R10&satitle=sigma+20mm+F1.8&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&fts=2&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&floc=1&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=93001&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&so=Show+Items

Thanks for the correction Bill, you are right - you did say 1.2-1.4. I got caught on the 1.2 part!