I recently purchased a new lens, I’ve been considering purchasing a 50mm Prime lens for years now, but was never thrilled by the plastic lens mount and the 5 blade aperture of Canon’s old 1.8 lens. When Canon released their new f/1.8 in early May, I followed the news and waited for the reviews. Having heard nothing bad about the lens I decided to just go for it.
The Speed of this Lens is great, I’m shooting on an older cropped Canon body so the actual focus length is around 80-85. The Stepping Motor is quick to focus and near silent. The only drawback of the Stepping Motor is that it seems tricky to manual focus because there is a slight delay between when the focus responds. But Auto Focus seems to do a good job. An interesting feature is the ability to first auto focus and then to fine tune the focus using the manual focus ring.
I’ve had the Lens for about a week now, and have taken quite a few photographs with it. Due to my work hours I started taking photographs of Star Trails. Just today I took the lens on its first Hike in Lassen National Recreation area (Those pictures will be incoming next week).
