Monday, March 30, 2009

In love with a lens nearly twice my focal length

With a sightly modified line from that infamous Shabba Ranks song, I introduce you to my new love - the Nikon 50mm prime lens. This lens proves once and for all that the cliche "love is blind" isn't accurate. No, it's not blind, just out of focus.

A maximum aperture of 1.8 gives this lens a crazy awesome depth of field. I'll admit, at first, I was put off by its lilliputian appearance and stubbornness to see outside the 50 mm field of view. Yes, it seemed limiting. But I rather like that now. The large aperture helps me focus on what I really want to capture an brings out the detail in my world.


I <3 you Nikon 50mm. Soon you will be mine!

NOTE: For those curious few, the focal length of the human eye is around 22mm.

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