subject: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens Review [print this page] Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens Review
I required a quick lens to require photos of my son's hockey games. Hockey rinks are most likely the toughest place to require nice photos. The lighting is typically poor, the surface bright (forcing a manual overexposure thereby relinquishing some shutter speed), and also the action is incredibly quick. Also, focusing through a puck-scuffed glass panel is another challenge in itself.
I recently purchased a Canon Rebel XS with the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens kit. the images from the primary hockey game weren't superb. The rink was one in every of the simplest in terms of overhead lighting intensity. I set the ISO to 1600, zoomed the lens to max (55mm), set the main target to servo mode (continuous focus of moving objects), set the camera to aperture priority, and set aperture to the fastest setting for 55mm (f/5.6). Since hockey rinks (surface and boards) are white, I had to line the exposure compensation to +2/3 thus my son's image wouldn't prove too dark. Since 55mm isn't an outsized zoom vary, I stood next to the glass close to the opposite team's goalie (my son's a forward). sadly the shutter speed for all the images was between 1/50 and 1/80; method too slow to capture a quick moving sport. the sole photos that looked acceptable were face-offs and when my son was parked in front of internet.
I purchased this 50mm one.8 lens and used it this weekend for a hockey tournament. The rink was at the opposite extreme in lighting; i.e., one in every of the more serious lit. For the 1PM game there was tiny degree|somewhat|slightly|alittle} of sun lightweight returning in from a number of small windows, thus I set the ISO to 800. I once more set the exposure compensation to +2/3. I used shutter priority now and set the speed to 1/125. That was quick enough to freeze the body motion and allowed for a pleasant blur impact of the hockey stick and puck when my son took an effort. The aperture bounced between f/1.8 and f/2.8; the upper f-stops gave me alittle deeper depth of field that helped place my son and also the goalie in higher focus. The lens had no hassle with servo focus mode (continuous focusing of a moving object). the most important problems with focus was the marks on the glass and also the different players skating in front of my son once I had the main target locked on him. In spite of that, the images turned out terribly nice; exceeding my expectations. the shortage of image stabilization did not appear to matter. the very fact that I captured a pleasant shot of my son scoring the primary goal of the tournament (cool shot where my son and also the goalie were in focus and you'll be able to see the puck underneath the goalie heading for the net) already justified the $100 purchase. once I came back for the evening game, there was clearly no sun lightweight boost from the windows, thus I had to bump the ISO up to 1600. Again, I captured several nice shots.
