Lately, I've been taking a lot of pictures with my trusty ole Canon 20D, and uploading to Flickr the ones that I like and are of nice quality.
I used to use a 28-105mm EF lens for most of my shooting, but recently I switched to the cheap and nasty plastic 18-55mm EFS lens that came with the body kit when I bought the camera many years ago.
Right now, I'm dreaming of getting a nice fixed prime 50mm lens. The base unit cost is around the $100ish mark depending on where you get it from and postage costs ontop for a f1.8 lens. From what I've seen/read/heard, it's not too shabby, and you'll find it does the work quite nicely. However, since it is me we're talking about here, I'd rather get a f1.4, or even a f1.2 lens instead for the versatility factor. Besides the increased bokeh (out-of-focus background effect) with the lower f-stop, it also permits much faster shutter speeds if you want to shoot action/movement.
The problem of course is price, with the f1.4 clocking around $400, and the f1.2 well over the $1000 mark for Canon EF series, not even looking at the L series lenses. If we want to talk about absurdity, we can examine the f1.0 lenses out there for in excess of $6000.
However, there is a way. People still sell Canon FD lenses on places like Ebay. The old FD lens is the pre-EOS series mount, for film camera. The mount is different to the EOS, which poses a slight technical difficulty but the advantage is that they are much cheaper, like the f1.2 is around the $400 mark, and f1.4's are around the $200 mark for good quality ones. The same applies to lenses from Pentax or Minolta with superceeded mounting systems.
You can get adaptors for them to the Canon EF EOS body. There are two types, a plain mechanical spacer adaptor which acts as a coupler between the lens and body, and then one with internal optics. I read on a website the differences and importance of them, and for the 50mm FD lens, I would need one with optics, and then it wouldn't even be a 50mm anymore because the optics diopter changes it to be greater than 50mm.... T_T Though, for other brands of 50mm lens, a mechanica spacer may be possible......
Thus, this is why I am dreaming on eBay for someone to sell a nice lens at a super cheap price, either because they don't know what they are doing, or by miraculous chance XD. Or I somehow fall into a lot of money legitimately and can afford to get one.
One day....
I used to use a 28-105mm EF lens for most of my shooting, but recently I switched to the cheap and nasty plastic 18-55mm EFS lens that came with the body kit when I bought the camera many years ago.
Right now, I'm dreaming of getting a nice fixed prime 50mm lens. The base unit cost is around the $100ish mark depending on where you get it from and postage costs ontop for a f1.8 lens. From what I've seen/read/heard, it's not too shabby, and you'll find it does the work quite nicely. However, since it is me we're talking about here, I'd rather get a f1.4, or even a f1.2 lens instead for the versatility factor. Besides the increased bokeh (out-of-focus background effect) with the lower f-stop, it also permits much faster shutter speeds if you want to shoot action/movement.
The problem of course is price, with the f1.4 clocking around $400, and the f1.2 well over the $1000 mark for Canon EF series, not even looking at the L series lenses. If we want to talk about absurdity, we can examine the f1.0 lenses out there for in excess of $6000.
However, there is a way. People still sell Canon FD lenses on places like Ebay. The old FD lens is the pre-EOS series mount, for film camera. The mount is different to the EOS, which poses a slight technical difficulty but the advantage is that they are much cheaper, like the f1.2 is around the $400 mark, and f1.4's are around the $200 mark for good quality ones. The same applies to lenses from Pentax or Minolta with superceeded mounting systems.
You can get adaptors for them to the Canon EF EOS body. There are two types, a plain mechanical spacer adaptor which acts as a coupler between the lens and body, and then one with internal optics. I read on a website the differences and importance of them, and for the 50mm FD lens, I would need one with optics, and then it wouldn't even be a 50mm anymore because the optics diopter changes it to be greater than 50mm.... T_T Though, for other brands of 50mm lens, a mechanica spacer may be possible......
Thus, this is why I am dreaming on eBay for someone to sell a nice lens at a super cheap price, either because they don't know what they are doing, or by miraculous chance XD. Or I somehow fall into a lot of money legitimately and can afford to get one.
One day....
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