Canon 50mm 1.8 landscape photos12/9/2023 ![]() Comparison: Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM lens vs. We’re here to give you a breakdown on the value it adds for us, in particular in how it compares to that much more inexpensive lens. Still, there has to be a significant reason to want to make the jump from a kit lens that is $125 to jumping to a Canon prime lens that runs around $1,300. Not to mention, the longer the focal length, the farther you have to be from your subject – which doesn’t mesh well with our style of photography when capturing couples or family portraits. On the other side of things, longer focal lengths like the 85mm, 135mm, or 70-200mm zoomable lens (all of which we regularly use) have beautiful image quality, but in some scenarios can be too tight to work with depending on the space. Wide angle lenses like a 24mm are excellent for capturing environments and large scenes (and in our own use cases – sometimes capturing some really unique, albeit contorted, portraits) – but that contortion + amount of information being absorbed by shooting with a wide angle is sometimes too much. Most other lenses have their own value to add to a shoot. With that said, we do still keep the old “nifty fifty” (as it is called…) around in case we have a unique instance we want to shoot with it.Īs a general statement, the 50mm is one of our favorites mostly due to the flexibility it provides when shooting. Even as we expanded our business, the quality of even the kit 50mm lens (this one being the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM lens) was actually impressive, and led to us utilizing it as we grew our collection of lenses until we finally decided to upgrade to the Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM. More guides and comparisons of photographic gear can be found on our photography gear guides – here on LensVid.Much of our early photography growing up was centered around a 50mm kit lens that came along with more inexpensive, beginner camera bodies like the Canon Rebel. Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II – $115 on Amazon. ![]() Yongnuo YN EF 50mm F/1.8 – $69 on ebay. ![]() With that said, we would really like to see more lenses from Yongnuo – it has been years since we have seen a new player in the DSLR AF lens market and it is so important that we will have more options – especially lower cost ones. So what is our recommendation? well, if Tony’s review is indeed indicative of the actual performance of the Yongnuo, we would still suggest that you would stick to the Canon unless budget is severely limited. On this review however Tony found quite a few problems with his Yongnuo sample, including weaker AF performance when compared to the Canon, more chromatic aberration and less sharpness wide open (which is more or less the main reason you would buy such a lens typically. To be honest other reviews have been more favorable towards the Yongnuo, which might simply mean that there is more variability between samples than we would like to see. ![]() This is not the first review of the Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8 online. On this video photographer Tony Northrup and his wife Chelsea take a quick look at the new Yongnuo: 50mm f/1.8 lens for Canon and compare it to the (good?) old Canon 50mm f/1.8 – which one takes the first place – check out the video. ![]()
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