Comments on: 50 F/1.4 In Stock

By: the runescape bot

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:39:16 +0000

Tripods are great for photographing trees and glaciers. Not so workable for kids.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:38:33 +0000

>Why is anyone predicting IS on a 50mm prime? Seriously, people, what are you
>photographing that you canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t maintain a 1/50 shutter speed?

Anything that moves indoors, eg. kids.

> Even worse are the people looking for IS on the 16-35mm. Why does one need a hand
> held shutter speed faster than 1/16 of the second?

Maybe because anything slower than 1/80 results in hand shake even on my 4.9x G6?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:51:33 +0000

Tripod: the original image stabilizer.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:21:11 +0000

A prime kit for the rebel crowd ?

They’d buy a powershot with 20x zoom instead…

By: dwtruland

dwtruland — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:22:01 +0000

I’m still sticking with my guess of a EF-S prime. 35 or 50. Makes a lot of sense in the current economy and makes sense to announce with a rebel. An EF-S 35 1.8 would make a cheap kit lens.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:11:02 +0000

I have the 50 1.4 too. I agree that it is a great lens also, but its not that great at 1.4–even in the center. I contemplated buying the sigma instead, because its optically superior, but who wants a 1.4 lens that can’t focus accurately half the time? I would rather have the dreamy effect of the canon in-focus than the optically correct sigma out of focus. If canon updated the 50, I would probably ebay my old 50 and upgrade. I would really prefer it if it didn’t have IS though to keep the price down. I just dont think IS is necessary in a 50 1.4… I don’t typically have a problem maintaining a 1/30th sec shutter speed (which I have no problem hand-holding at 50mm on FF) at that aperture, even indoors at night.

By: Garth

Garth — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:39:59 +0000

In the UK, both Jessops (my local store and on line) have plenty of 50mm f1.4s in from today. Same goes with Warehouse Express.

By: billybottoms

billybottoms — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:44:24 +0000

trickle down economics was the dumbest idea i’ve ever heard of. this is just photo gear.

By: Spam

Spam — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:29:17 +0000

IS increase the chance of better sharpness at least up to 1/125 second even on shorter focal lenghts.

By: Spam

Spam — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:26:41 +0000

Why shouldn’t they come out with a 50mm and a Rebel at the same time? Nobody expect them to sell it as a kit.

By: F Canon

F Canon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:26:10 +0000

Yeah EF 24-70 2.8 IS i’ll buy it too, right away…

Hum I mean, my bank will buy it….using sub-primes probably….

Da most logical lens to be released by Canon nowadays.

By the way, I own a 50mm 1.4, what a great lens, for a relatively cheap amount of money, specially good on aps-c dlsr because it just “uses” the best part of the lens, the middle, where performances are the highest possible.

My 2 cents

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:30:05 +0000

Keaton, don’t get me wrong – image quality is more important to me too. I just find it odd when somebody automatically assumes that other peoples shooting needs & restrictions are the same as their own.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:14:08 +0000

I agree. I have already decided that if a 24-70 2.8 IS is released i will buy it… Though i expect it to be in the 1500 dollar range (ouch). I suspect there are many people that wouldnt be able to resist. If canon wants a money maker, that is it.