What is a 50mm 1.2 lens good for?
It can capture body shots, close-up portraits without distorting the face, as well as product and detail images. The 50mm is also a prime lens, meaning it has a fixed focal length.
What is the difference between F1 2 and F1 8?
The F/1.8 has a major advantage because if you go to a tighter shot the F/1.8 is able to focus well at 11.8 Whereas the F/1.2 is more like a foot and a third. So that’s somewhere around 15 or 16 inches. That doesn’t seem like a lot, but it’s pretty significant.
Is the 50mm 1.2 worth it?
The Canon 50mm f/1.2 was very sharp, quick to focus and produced buttery smooth bokeh for half-body and portrait crops. It also produced a lot of unwanted chromatic aberration when shooting against a blown out background. This is rather disappointing for a lens of this price.
What is the difference between 1.8 and 1.4 lens?
The 1.4 is quite a bit sharper than the 1.8 as well. If you shoot them side by side, you would easily be able to tell the difference in sharpness at the same aperture. It’s also nice that have that extra one stop of light. When you are shooting in low light situations, the bigger aperture helps.
What is a 50mm 1.2 lens?
The EF 50mm f/1.2L USM is a peerless standard lens featuring an ultra-large aperture for a narrow depth of field and soft background blur so loved by photographers everywhere.
Is it worth buying a 50mm lens?
50mm lenses are typically very sharp, and produce crisp images with minimal vignetting at the edges. You will not find a sharper lens for the budget price of $125 or so. Even if you have a kit lens that covers the 50mm focal range (a 17-55mm kit lens for example), a 50mm prime is worth the small investment.
What is f/1.2 in photography?
A lens with a wide aperture is also known as a “fast” lens, because it enables you to use a faster shutter speed. If you’re shooting at f/1.2, there is a lot of light entering the lens – which means that the shutter doesn’t need to be open for as long to expose an image.