Canon - DSLR Portrait Pack $126.50 Delivered @ Videopro
This is much cheaper than TGG $179, JB Hi-Fi $179, Binglee $149.
Product Features
Very fast lens - great for low light
Easily isolate your subject with shallow depth of field and beautiful bokeh
Very lightweight - an excellent walk around lens
Use the included remote to eliminate camera shake when using a tripod
Included Accessories
Canon 50mm F/1.8 Prime Lens
Front and back Lens Cap
Canon RC6 Remote Control
Cleaning Cloth
Worse: shoot at f/1.8 all the time.
Front and back Lens Cap came with every lens
The remote and lens cloth are rubbish, you can buy them from ebay for a few dollars
So that leave Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens (Made in Malaysia not japan) is about $110 (delivered) normal price.
Not a bargain
But the lens cloth probably has canon logo on it so it must be good and worth something right?
Hmmm you got me there…. BUT ryda got it on sale at the moment so still not a bargain
http://www.ryda.com.au/Canon-LCC-103-Lens-Cleaning-Cloth-p/l…
;-)
What is the lens included , the nifty fifty?
No. It's the 85mm f1.4 L hence the bargain
Yup, it is.
Just buy the lens on its own if you need it. They are pretty poor quality made, the plastic focus drive breaks easily and they wont focus after that. But they are a nice lens for newbies to play around with.
Not really a bargain, I bought this for $90 a little while ago from DSE. The build quality isn't that great and the AF motor is really loud. Apart from these issues, it's a great little lens, especially considering the price. The DOF achieved is pretty amazing, definitely a beginners must buy lens.
looks like a good price for Australian stock plus original remote, but as mentioned above you can find this great little lens under $100 and you can just buy an aftermarket remote on ebay for $4, it does the same job. i wouldn't pay any more money for a simple remote, with the money difference you can buy an intervalometer.
P.S 1000 times better this nifty fifty in the right hands than an L lens in the wrong hands, you will be amazed of what this little cheap thing can do if you know what you are doing ;)
The 'newbie' comments and sarcasm on here are pretty stupid, and show a superiority complex as though that person is some amazing photographer and didn't start somewhere - somehow started with a whole set of L series lenses.
This is a great little lens, with image quality matching that of much more expensive lens.
To get it to a low price, thus accessible for all types of photographers - including beginners, and hobbyists - obviously it needed compromised in production - and this includes the build quality (all plastic) and the AF motor (loud, slow)
However, this is about $100, as opposed to the $350 or so for the f/1.4, or the near thousand for the f/1.2 L series. IQ would run pretty similar throughout them, and thus this lens is perfect for probably the vast majority of photographers - ie, those that don't do it for a living and those that don;t have superiority complexes over 1/3 stops of light.
Is this a bargain though? No. Buy it cheaper elsewhere, and buy a Yongnuo shutter release - you can get one that will come in under this price that has many more features, such as timed shutter release, intervalometer etc, or just a plain wireless one for even less.
Watch all the newbies shoot at f22 ISO 6400 and wonder why it's not working.