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| 23/09/2008 12:54 |
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Re: Help!!! I Knew It Would Happen!!
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Hi Chris,
The 50mm F2 Oly lens is superb and you won't regret buying it if you do. It makes a cracking portrait lens and the clarity and sharpness of the images produced with it are excellent.
Other tips; watch your white balance when shooting with no flash indoors and don't forget to adjust it again when you go outside. Auto white balance will be safe outdoors, but possibly not indoors.
The 50 mm f2.0 is an excellent lens, but being a short telephoto it is also has a very narrow angle of view, so you may end up not using it very often apart from head and should portraits from a distance. (Try your kit lens at 50 mm to see what I mean).
For that sort of money, and given your immediate needs you would probably be better off buying the 14 ~ 54 f2.8 lens.
Also, if you are shooting RAW, I would just stick to using Auto White Balance as you can always adjust it in PS when processing.
Good luck anyhow!
Edit: The Sigma 30 mm f1.4 looks like another viable option, but I have heard (possibly incorrectly) that they don't always work (focus) well with Olympus cameras.