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Originally Posted by
binge 
After hand-wringing a bit, I ordered the Canon 50mm f/1.4 and it arrived today.
Now all I have to do is figure out how to use the damn thing. Just shooting crap around the apartment the evening, the full-auto mode leaves a lot to be desired; although it seemed to do well outdoors during the day.
That's a very good lens. Now that you have a very wide-aperture lens, you can take pictures that you couldn't with a point-and-shoot, like using its shallow depth-of-field to isolate things. This is a pretty good primer on these kinds of lenses:
http://www.lensrentals.com/news/2010...perture-lenses
Each lens is going to teach you to look at a scene in a certain way in order to use that lens well. Maybe walk around the city, and see if you can frame things so that you can use the lens to produce a blurred background to make the thing you're trying to photograph pop out.
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Originally Posted by
ramuman I had the 24-105 f/4L IS...overrated imo.
It may be overrated, but it's not a bad lens at all. Many parts of this video were shot with the 24-105:
http://vimeo.com/11932030
View it fullscreen in HD if your computer can handle it. For binge, I'd also look at how he uses shallow depth of field to frame and direct your attention.
--Andre
