Canon EOS 1200D

[CanonGirl-Newbie]

Hi,
I am pretty new to this and have a Canon EOS 1200D and am looking to purchase a Canon 50mm prime lens.

I have been doing a bit of research and wonder would an EF 50mm 1:1.8 II work or would i need an EF-S mount to work with my camera? Will i be able to automatically focus?

At the minute i have the kit lens this is an EF-S.

Any help at all with this would be great.

 

[stupar]

In simple terms

You can use all EF lenses on your EFs camera.
Its the other way round that doesnt work.

You will be just fine eith the 50mm f1.8 on your 1200D

 

[Nostromo]

All ef-s/ef lenses will fit your camera. It's only full frame cameras that will only accept ef lenses.

 

[lucky247]

All Canon EF and EFS lenses will fit. Don't forget to account for the 1.6x crop factor so the 50mm is essentially an 80mm

 

[CanonGirl-Newbie]

OK, great. Thanks for all the info.

 

[UKmitch86]

Hi,
I am pretty new to this and have a Canon EOS 1200D and am looking to purchase a Canon 50mm prime lens.

I have been doing a bit of research and wonder would an EF 50mm 1:1.8 II work or would i need an EF-S mount to work with my camera? Will i be able to automatically focus?

At the minute i have the kit lens this is an EF-S.

Any help at all with this would be great.

Hi - the 50mm STM would be a better choice - there's an extra aperture blade and the focus mechanism is more robust.

 

[CanonGirl-Newbie]

Ok, thanks for all the info.

Do people think Canon EF 50mm F1.8 II or the Canon EF 50 F/1.8 STM Lens

Any other suggestions of lenses?

For taking portraits.

My budget is no more than £100. Willing to buy second hand.

 

[UKmitch86]

Ok, thanks for all the info.

Do people think Canon EF 50mm F1.8 II or the Canon EF 50 F/1.8 STM Lens

Any other suggestions of lenses?

For taking portraits.

My budget is no more than £100. Willing to buy second hand.

Hi again - I own a mark 2. The glass is the same in the lenses - but the focus mechanism in the STM uses a different type of motor. The STM has 2 additional aperture blades over the mark 2 - this offers rounder, more pleasant bokeh - probably quite important if you're using your 50 wide-open on a crop frame camera at what is effectively 80mm (traditionally a good portrait length).

Because the 1200D is a crop frame (1.6x smaller than a full frame (35mm)), depth of field starts out deeper. In order to separate your subject from its background (a common technique to emphasise the face/upper body in an image) the wider your aperture, the better. When an aperture has 5 straight blades (like on the mark 2 50mm) it's more difficult to create a perfect circle with the aperture (the key to rounder bokeh) - instead you get pentagonal (5-sided) bokeh. If you like the look, then great, but most prefer smoother, more rounded - which is easier to achieve with the STM's 7 rounded blades, as it can create an opening shaped more like a perfect circle than the 50 mark 2.

HTH