My first prime! Canon 50/1.4 USM
Student life really is a bummer when it comes to buying new lenses.. huh? A few days ago i went out and got my first prime lens, a Canon 50/1.4 USM. I also wanted to try a different camera store than where i normally buy my gear so i went down to Japanfoto in Stockholm. Great service, great prices (for an actual store), great online catalogue. I’m one happy customer and they’re not paying me to say this. I’ve been toying with the idea of a fast prime and since the only half decent results i get for portraits is with a Sigma 70-300mm @300mm, I decided i needed a portrait lens, the 50/1.4 is perfect for that on the crop sensor of my 50D.
I’ve only had this lens for a few days and i haven’t had that much time for photography but i plan to find time over the coming weeks and maybe test it the way pros do… you know with numbers and such 
. So far i’ve shot about a 100 shots with it and it’s pretty great.
What i have found is that at least when you use the auto settings on the camera (P, Tv, Av), the images tend to come out a little overexposed, i’ve generally had the exposure compensation about 2/3 of a step down.
At f2.2 this lens gets very sharp, way sharper than at f1.4. The difference in the bokeh at those f-values is pretty small.
Here are a few test shots:
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