Help choosing a lens

[Kermit power]

Personally (although others may choose to disagree), I think you made the best choice for a first prime lens, as it's closest to your own natural field of vision on a crop sensor camera.

I used to get frustrated when using my 50mm f1.8 because I'd see something which I thought made a great shot then brought the camera up to my eye only to find that at best I needed to back up quickly before the moment was lost, and at worst, there wasn't anywhere to back up to without knocking a wall down or something!

[Mr Will]

Kermit power said:

Personally (although others may choose to disagree), I think you made the best choice for a first prime lens, as it's closest to your own natural field of vision on a crop sensor camera.

I used to get frustrated when using my 50mm f1.8 because I'd see something which I thought made a great shot then brought the camera up to my eye only to find that at best I needed to back up quickly before the moment was lost, and at worst, there wasn't anywhere to back up to without knocking a wall down or something!

I'd agree with you. I have a 50mm 1.4 which I love, but that's on a full frame camera so a very similar field of view to the 35mm on APS-C (~53mm-e).

The only reason that 50mm still gets recommended as much as it does is because Canon still have their cheap and good 50mm 1.8 kicking around from the days of film but don't offer a decent equivalent to the Nikon 35mm 1.8. The 'nifty fifty' is still a great little lens and an absolute bargain, but it's a bit of an awkward length (80mm-e) for anything except portraits.

[325Ti]

[Morbid]

Nice shot. Would make a great Christmas card!

[325Ti]

Trying to use the flash off the camera now - any suggestions for how to improve these?