cause i feel it a bit soft at 1.4, or is my hand shaking?

try 2.0-2.8 it depend the object size in ur viewfinder

F1.4 soft coz the shallow DOF n also the CA noise.

yes..it is soft at 1.4....too shallow the DOF...hard to focus...
BUT!!
the bokeh is dreamy and nice....so just for some special street and portrait shots....

Hi guys, just sold my a350 body to a nice forumer and thinking to upgrade the body to a550. Anyone here using the body can tell me if the "body shake" still exists when u switch on?

i like!!~! damn nice d bokeh

make my heart so itchy wanna buy one now

i heard smaller aperture like f5.6 would be razor sharp..

i spam a f1.4 shot....

50mm F1.4 @ 1.4...

guys,

wanna ask...usually u guys uses which metering mode for portrait, wedding shot and common/general

very nice..artistic

nice bokeh within a budget(compared to cz 85mm or 135mm)..so the very tempting...

@achew
hehe the bokehmon has oso started showing the power of the 50mm 1.4 ..btw 2nd pic heavy pp on the background?

This post has been edited by -milo-: Dec 28 2009, 11:17 PM

i think centre weighted is nice....
if using flash i use matrix...

wah, prime poisons kicked in already
dangerous..
but it would be a good reference for me to chose my desired focal length

the blur/bokeh is straight from the lens..nv touch it..

depend on ur lighting condition..if evenly lighted..i'll use centre weighted...if not i usualy meter on the face of my subject..

achew: do u mean if evenly lighted then u just focus straight to the subject? or do you still meter in a slight darker area then focus on the subject?

and ur usual method is u uses spot metering direct on the subject?

i cant use spot metering direct on the subject coz 90% of the time i dont place my subject at the center..

when the lighting condition is good..i choose centre weighted...and straightaway focus on whatever i want to shoot..never touch any metering while shooting..

if i found that the lighting condition isnt very idea(eg: background super bright..the center of the frame very bright and i always place my subject on the side)..i would do AEL on the subject face...

if AEL on the face would make the background totally over exposed(when im not looking for a high-key shot)..sometimes i'd use EV to compensate and find somewhere inbtwn..so that i could edit my RAW during PP to get both the background and subject exposed correctly..

This post has been edited by achew: Dec 28 2009, 11:42 PM

if want the background and subject to be correctly exposed i think matrix metering should do a great job....

i find that sometimes if certain part inside the frame is way too bright..the metering wont really work well....but for most of the time..im using centre weighted..unless i spoted something is wrong...or im looking for high-key/low-key

great..u have just injected a very hard to cure poison into my body..

however..just out of curiousity..wanna ask all sifus here..if i wanna buy a sal 50mm 1.4, for that kind of price,is there any comparable or better lens out there? in terms of
i)versatility
ii)shaprness
iii)bokeh
?

sigma 50 f1.4

not too late to join the 50mm spam