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What’s this song about? Other than my ringtone? Ali Spagnola wrote it, and 59 other 59-second songs. Why? Her concerts are a one-hour drinking game, and she spent over $30k in court, so that you could play it. I can’t make this stuff up.

This is one of my two favorite lenses.

This is an extremely affordable lens. The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II cost only $111.50 USD. To put that into perspective, the Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM, with only a slightly larger aperture, cost $1,504.89 USD. That’s over 13-times the price. (These prices are for new, non-gray-market lenses, from Amazon.com, on 2013-04-04 12:14 am CDT.)

Pros:

• Inexpensive.
• Extremely light.
• Fast shutter speeds.
• Works well in low light.
• Nice bokeh.
• The front of the lens does not rotate. This is a good feature if you use graduated filters.
• 50mm is perfect for portraits.

Cons:

• The focus ring is small.
• Like with all primes, there is no zoom, so you need to either move the camera to fill the frame, or crop the image later.
• It has a plastic barrel.
• The provided lens cap is (maybe too) easy to take off.

Gershy: LIKE!

Unintentional motion blur: otherwise I like it.

I am having a love/hate thing with this image. The lines draw your eyes towards the blur, but I really want to like it. Argh!