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18.12.06

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The other day I wrote about the Canon 50mm f/1.8 I bought. In that post I forgot to mention the story preceeding this buy.

I was talking with caillou about portraits I took and the problem of bad lighting conditions. He recommended me buying this objective, whereupon I laughed at his proposition, telling him "50mm ain't enough focal length for taking portraits with a small depth field". Then I continued thinking about this problem, and I thought I might give it a try. I tested with another objective and smaller aperture and found the depth field to be pretty small.

He shall be right, I was wrong. The rest ist already documented in the previous post. (tuet guet, gau?)