Nifty Fifty

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I used the nifty fifty the other day for the first time, shooting a local band. On looking at the pics most of them had a shaft of blue light on them. I think it must have been a reflection off the blue guitar, but wondered if 1. you can get a hood for the nifty fifty and 2. Do you think it'll help

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Allan
 
You can indeed get a hood for the 50mm f/1.4 but whether it fits the 1.8 version I don't know.:)
 
U meen nifty FIFTY, just a nickname (nifty) 'cause its very useful/handy in a lot of situations and (fifty) 'cause it's a 50mm lens. ;)
 
There was a thread somewhere on here to make your own, could do one out of a piece of black card??
 
Ooooh I might invest in one of these myself.

Is it reversable for storage, and simple twist click to put on/off, or is it more finicky than that?
 
The ones on the ebay listing I gave are a screw thread and actually screw on like a filter does, so no the don't reverse for storage.
 
I've been wondering about this type of lens (one e). Alot of people say they use these lenses for indoor gigs etc where there's low light levels. But can you really shoot gigs at 1.7/1.8 or whatever it is? surely the DOF is too shallow and so if you've got to use a smaller aperture what's the attraction of this type of lens (one e again;) ).
 
depends what kind of shot you want, you can usually get enough depth of focus into the shot to get the face in, with nice blurred backgrounds.


the other advantage is that the large max aperture means more light can enter the camera and the camera can have an easier time focusing as it can 'see' more to focus on.

some gig shots taken at f1.8 on an 85mm canon prime, not the greatest pics ever (far from it) but they do show what you can get DoF wise

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Good examples there Whitewash. Don't forget too that the lens is also the viewfinder, and the bigger the aperture the easier it is to actually see and focus. Reportage types who just have to get the shot used to pay a huge premium for F1 lenses. They weren't particularly good wide open, and even if they actually stopped down a tad when taking the shot, the brighter viewfinder was still a huge advantage.

Just being pedantic.. depth of focus is behind the lens - depth of field is in front of it. ;)
 
Thanks whitewash and CT. I remember seeing a self portrait peter did where one eye was sharp and the other was OOF because the DOF was so shallow but it doesn't seem to be an issue with your stage shots. Does the DOF for a set apreture differ depending on how far away from the lens the subject is?
 
Kev Mills said:
Does the DOF for a set apreture differ depending on how far away from the lens the subject is?
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Absolutely! Depth of field increases as you focus into the distance and decreases as you focus closer the the camera. :)
 
Nice one CT, now I see how you dan get away with such wide aperture settings. Probs should have asked all this before I bought a minolta 50mm 1.7 off the bay yesterday but I'd heard a while back what a useful lens it was so decided I needed one either way.
 
Everybody needs one. :)

A fast standard lens is great for low light and for isolating the subject from the background.

I don't have that many shots taken with my 50mm 1.4, so I'll have to use this one again.

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