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Old 25-10-09, 00:12
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Originally Posted by miketoll View Post
It does not have to stay on f1.8, you can change it to other apertures as required you know! The f1.8 gives you the opportunity for narrow depth of field, for example only the nearest eye in focus.
Never was a truer word spoke by mortal man Mike............ I use a 50mm on a 1.6 crop as my 'goto' lens and it is a superb portrait lens and the fact that its the 1.2 means you can also get the narrow DOF and subject isolation in much larger areas.
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