Charlie ([info]vruba) wrote in [info]aredridel,

You mentioned you had a fast 50 mm prime. Nikon made a squillion of these*, and a few of them were duds, but mostly you’d have trouble finding better glass under $300. One’s adaptored onto my 350D a lot of the time. What other lenses do you have?

* That page repeats the plausible myth that a 50 mm lens (on a full frame sensor, or about a 30 mm lens on a D70) has some kind of magic-number relation to the human visual system. Nonsense. A 45°ish wide, 2:3 field of view feels fairly natural, but there’s nothing physiologically special about it any more than, say, middle C is inherently notable to the auditory system. It’s just a convenient middle-of-the-road value.



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