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> As your spouse proudly holds the baby up you raise the camera to your eye. How did you just happen to have the camera with the right lense right at the momen

> As your spouse proudly holds the baby up you raise the camera to your eye. How did you just happen to have the camera with the right lense right at the moment? For truly spur of the moment, have to use whatever you have at hand and not worry about tech, usually a cell phone. > The viewfinder seems a little dim in the room light On the other hand if you have a little more time, just click live button and tap viewscreen to focus (or get a camera with electronic viewfinder that brightens things up for you, though good ones are expensive). In time sensitive situations, larger F stop is your friend because your main subject is likely to be reasonably focused. Might get noise from high ISO, but these days noise removal / shadow brightening is pretty powerful in post-processing providing you shoot RAW. > There is a difference of approximately 3.5 stops between f/1.8, the typical maximum aperture for an entry-level 50mm lens, and f/5.6, the typical maximum aperture at the portrait end of a “consumer” zoom. This is a huge difference in practice. I love a couple of old manual lenses I have, but these require careful scene planning to ensure focus is on the correct thing and background is far away to be properly blurred, the opposite of "kid is smiling" situation in the article. For those, I keep 18-135 lens on by default so I can shoot a large group of friends from short distance or a bird on the tree at short notice.

hef19898 4y ago
A 50 mm is one of my special occasion lenses, the others being a 80-200 and a 300, the latter often combined with a TC. The 50 is great for low light, for street photography and small enough to carry with you. Street ohotography because you stand out much less with a DSLR without battery grip and a lens as small as a 50 mm. Low light, because of f1.8. The one lense that is on most of the time, especially when travelling, is a 24-120. I still would recommend a 50mm, simply for its convenience, low light performance, small size, incredible sharpness, speedy AF and beautiful image characteristics from backgrounds to sun stars.
- cat_plus_plus 4y ago
  Sure, I can live with a 24mm (38.4mm translated from crop sensor) if I know for sure I am going to be indoors or in close quarters / shooting large objects. But distance quickly becomes an issue, not always possible to access interesting areas or walk there in time. So for unknown situations helps to have a decent zoom range, even at the expense of having to shoot with higher ISO.

hef19898 4y ago

A 50 mm is one of my special occasion lenses, the others being a 80-200 and a 300, the latter often combined with a TC. The 50 is great for low light, for street photography and small enough to carry with you. Street ohotography because you stand out much less with a DSLR without battery grip and a lens as small as a 50 mm. Low light, because of f1.8. The one lense that is on most of the time, especially when travelling, is a 24-120. I still would recommend a 50mm, simply for its convenience, low light performance, small size, incredible sharpness, speedy AF and beautiful image characteristics from backgrounds to sun stars.

cat_plus_plus 4y ago
Sure, I can live with a 24mm (38.4mm translated from crop sensor) if I know for sure I am going to be indoors or in close quarters / shooting large objects. But distance quickly becomes an issue, not always possible to access interesting areas or walk there in time. So for unknown situations helps to have a decent zoom range, even at the expense of having to shoot with higher ISO.