Happy Easter

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Happy Easter or other politically correct seasonal festival.

Yeah it's a cheap attempt to post a second favourite pic of the day (particularly since this one is definately not worthy of the photo of the day thread anyway).

Here's my best Easter photo from the kiddies searching for eggs this morning. I finally put my 2nd lens on the camera, the nifty fifty 50mm F/1.8. Dissapointing results and another learning curve. I took everything at F/1.8 and it was totaly unsharp. I'm so going to have to read understanding exposure.:p
50mm, F1.8 Ap prior, 0 EV, 1/80 sec, iso200.

Anyone else have a Fav Easter shot?

[T06]

Same to you. You are in for a treat when you start to see the clarity in your pics for such a low priced lens;)

[Tony_V]

I finally put my 2nd lens on the camera, the nifty fifty 50mm F/1.8. Dissapointing results and another learning curve. I took everything at F/1.8 and it was totaly unsharp. I'm so going to have to read understanding exposure.:p

Happy Easter to you as well! I just picked up a 50mm f1.4 a couple of weeks ago. I am also struggling with clarity at wide open aperture settings. I think focus technique is the issue. The camera needs contrast to focus and I tend to frame my picture and focus at the same time without regard for the contrast in the center of the photo. I am not 100% sure this is the answer, I am still experimenting. Just a thought.

Thoughts anyone?

Tony

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Yeah somethings fishy in the state of Denmark. I know it's me causing it not the lens everyone else loves.

I should have named the thread "help with 50mm F/1.8 focus" not "Happy Easter" to boost responses!

Has anyone else had this problem?

One thing I did learn myself was don't take group shots of your family at Easter at F/1.8

Took my 50 off cam and put my 18-200 back on for the rest of the weekend!

[K1W1]

Why did you take the photo at f1.8? The DOF is very shallow at such close range and most of your son (?) is going to be out of focus.

[Bob_Benner]

Once you figure out the 50 you will want all your lenses to perform just like it, I think then you will not want to shoot with the 18-200 anymore.

[ssil2000]

dread, a good way to understand the nifty 50 is put it on the camera, get your longest remote control and put it on the table set the camera to f1.8 and focus on the nearest button on the remote make sure you are on enough of an angle to get the whole remote in the shot now repeat this a stop apart till you get to f10 and then look at them in sequence, you will see how shallow the DOF is at 1.8 :)

hope this helps! it worked for me anyway! :)

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Ahh that makes sense.

I was experimenting K1W1, I've got a heap of family photos taken at F3.5-F5.6 range and I wanted to see what happened at F1.8 on the lens capable of it.

I'd figured since F/3.5 was giving me appreciably more depth of field than I needed lets see what happens at F1.8. I hadn't realised it would make that much difference that only part of a single face might be focussed.

I'll run the test Sergio.

Thanks All