Seems like a pretty good local price from a brick and mortar store. There is no option to pick up so the location but the local delivery for me is only another 5 bucks
This is an essential part of an amateur photographer's kit and it's great tool to learning how to compose shots.
Don't forget Cashrewards!
Comes to $404 shipped, pretty good price as they go for ~$350 used.
From hk.
The one-year warranty is provided by our company, NO International manufacturer warranty for the item.
The item may not come with Australian plug. But the AU adapter will come with it.
That sounds goods.
$350 used is the very high end of the spectrum. Between $200 and $250 would be my target range on eBay.
but it doesn't have a red ring around it, how will people know that I'm using an expensive lens?
That is true! Good thing PetaPixel has a guide to actually increase the performance of similar lenses.
https://petapixel.com/2012/02/09/how-to-increase-the-perform…
Brilliant :)
paint it yourself. I did with my 18-55.
My ZF doesn't have red ring.
paint it yourself
https://petapixel.com/2012/02/09/how-to-increase-the-perform…
in all seriousness, this isn't a very good lens. save yo money and get the 50mm 1.8 stm
edit: damnit wrote too much
How is it not a very good lens? I think it’s decent value for $400
It's not 'not very good' per say, but consider what you're getting for 3x the price of the STM - 1 more aperture blade + a little narrower DoF.
IQ is about the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYhJK3-4Kgk
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3909378
http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/comparisons/50mm-lenses.htm
https://www.reddit.com/r/canon/comments/35vaxn/which_niftyfi…
This one likes the 1.4
https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-50mm-f-…
@nubix: Not sure about those links, but for a normal user like myself, I find the 1.4 is better. The IQ, the fast, smooth focus…etc
@nubix: I didn’t neg you for the record. Interesting reads, personally I haven’t had any issues and have been happy with it
I agree with nubix on this…the Canon f/1.4 USM is an older lens design in sore need of an update. The 50mm f/1.8 STM is much better value for money at approx 1/3 the price, and performs just as well.
is anyone having trouble transacting?
Sigma 50 1.4 is way better than this.
I've had great experience with the sigma art primes
I meant the old Sigma 50 1.4, which was at the same price as this Canon lens. The new Sigma 50 1.4 Art is in a different league.
Seen any deals on the Sigmas? Particarly keen to pickup the 35mm 1.4 art. Digital camera warehouse seems to be cheapest at $969
I had quite bad experience with Sigma when their lenses before the Art generation has the problem with front/back focus. I was experienced a few of them myself. Quite annoyed.
Yeah my 17-70 is ruined, squeaks and hunts a lot, need to replace it.
I love my Sigma 30mm 1.4 prime though
@kev98: Keep an eye on dcxpert on eBay. They sell Aussie stock sourced through CR Kennedy, the official dist. of Sigma here, and do good specials from time to time. Last November they had the 35mm ART for around $660 if I recall correctly, and it happened to be at the same time that eBay had a 10% off voucher going.
I've bought a bunch of stuff from dcxpert, including my Sigma 135mm ART, and their service is top notch.
I bought the Sigma ART 50mm f/1.4 and had lots of issues with the AF consistency - it would back/front focus regularly. Many reporedt the 35ART to be the same, the 24ART as well. Apparently these first few lenses in the ART series had AF motors that were a bit too weak for the job. They beefed up the motors in later lenses (e.g. 85mm & 135mm ART) and they're a lot more consistent.
I own the 135ART and AF on it is fantastic - consistent, fast…and it's an amazing optic as well - razor sharp wide open.
I've read about some of these issues, although I think I've been lucky with good glass. That being said, I always calibrate with in-camera adjustment for my own AF preferences, as I think what my eye sees/wants to see, and the factory preset can be two different things. Certainly not set and forget, but it's like fishing: prep is everything.
@pensionday: I did calibrate my Sigma 50mm on my bodies, but calibration is useless when the lens can't set the focus in the same place from one shot to the next. That the main complaint with the early ART series lenses - a locked off camera + lens, focusing on the same static subject multiple times, focusses at different distances over multiples AF attempts. i.e. The Sigma lens can't position the internal AF groups in exactly the same position every time despite the fact that it's trying too - the AF either motor doesn't have the precision or the torque to do so. It's not something that can be calibrated against, either in camera or using Sigma's dock to directly adjust the lens.
As I said, it's only some people who seem to have issues. I know a photographer who also shoots with the 50mm ART and doesn't seem to have any of the issues that I did.
those with sigma focusing issues, did the sigma dock not help with that?
Only if it was a consistent front or back focus issue. See my other comment above.
If a lens switches from front focusing to back focusing at near and far distances it doesn't help.
The 50 1.8 STM is a great lens and significantly cheaper and is actually shaper wide open.
I had tried a couple of these on some APS-C Canon DSLRs but they just couldn't handle the pixel density. Any apertures wider than f/2.8 were way too soft for my liking. Perhaps not too surprising as this is one of the oldest lens designs in the Canon catalogue.
What is the price?