Originally posted by Marc Sabatella I agree 50mm is not the most generally useful FL on APS-C. It's great for a certain type of portrait, and a few other fairly specialized situations. But msot 50mm lenses - your included - are *great* lenses, just in terms of pure IQ, and hence are perfect choices for situations when you have some flexibility in terms of focal length. For instance, an sort of still life or product photography when it's OK to just change distance to subejct in order to get the framing you want. No zoom on your list is going to compete with your 50 for that. It's one of the appeals of the prime, to me.
On the other hand, you probably paid more for that lens than the value it brings you. So I'd sell it, pick up an M50/1.7 for probably a tenth the cost so you have one *extremely* high quality optic in your collection, and put the *rest* toward a more generally useful lens if you so desire.
Besides the added speed, I think zooms "alter" the picture by their convenience factor. The kit lens, for example, produces "normal" pics at 50mm but "distorted" ones below 24mm. For the most part, the standard 50mm lens will give you the same result and also a consistent one.
Different strokes and all that...I have used the M50 for street pics but some people would be appalled by the idea!
He basically stole that F50!
Some of us opined in another thread that he keep it for the speed factor alone. No big loss though, if he puts it on ebay...since he'll pull in $150-ish of profit. (One M50/1.7 of mine will probably be going on the market soon...shameless promotion
) No AF, but same lens otherwise. Sharp sharp sharp! I'm keeping the other one