With no recent experience with Canon glass ( most recent is 30+ yrs ago and a 50mm F/1.8 Serenar ) I can comment on the relative merits of similar Nikon glass. The current 50mm f/1.4 AF-S lens performs comparably with its manual focus equivalent 50mm. The 50mm f/1.8 AF after stopping down a little is just as good and the f/1.4's stopped down to the same apertures. The Canon 50mm F/1.2 is faster but has no depth of field at f/1.2. I suspect that the comparison with the Canon 50mm f/1.8 at f/2.8 and smaller would show little difference just as the Nikons do. Wide open you only get just a little more than one stop faster with the 1.2. At B&H the 1.8 is $99, the 1.4 is $360, and the 1.2 is $1,450. Pretty steep curve given that the 1.2 is about 1/2 stop faster then the 1.4 anyway. You can get lots of other neat stuff for the $1,000 difference. Cheers, James -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Dyer-Bennet Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 11:16 AM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: Canon 50mm lens comparison On Tue, August 10, 2010 08:38, Kim Mosley wrote: > I'm curious about the same question, but with the Nikon 1.8 vs. Nikon 1.4 > for the D90/D80. The 1.4 is 3 or 4 times as expensive. For both the Canon and the Nikon, the Sigma 50mm f/1.4 should not be overlooked, it sounds like. The reviews I've seen definitely place it ahead of the new Nikon 50/1.4 AF-S, and it's a lot cheaper than the Canon 50/1.2. (Me, I'm still using a Nikon 50/1.8 AIS from 1982; I used to have the 58mm f/1.2 NOCT, but sold that to finance the D700.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
