Dunno how they test ler.... the thread in that german forum is waaaaaaaaaaaay too long.

Maybe... guess only... that they could test by focussing on white paper + horizontal + vertical line to check sensitivity kwa.

On good light, I don't think can feel any difference. I shoot a lot at night and the outer AF points on the utterly useless.

For your purpose, I reckon the 18-55 IS or the 18-135mm kit lens will be more useful for your stated purpose.

Reason being:

- 50mm lacks versatility for travel purpose. Shoot people (note singular) is ok but for buildings its too tight and you may need to compose by only framing a portion of the building only.

- 50mm is too way too tight to take pics of house deco unless you only wanna shoot small items or live in a huge mansion

- The AF is also too slow.. and hunts badly in low light for kids running around.

However:

The 50mm f1.8 could be useful for portrait shots (of which isolating the background could be useful) if your kid stays still.

Like ComradeZ said, the 50mm f1.8 is a great piece of practice equipment.. for play play and to learn.

Don't bull lar.. what rehab? Rehab already long time kena roboh from the likes of folks like the unker, fluitie and u di

Then again, if one can afford a FF.. he/she should go L or the Sigma rite

and subsequently proceeded to throw it into his rubbish bin

Its a great for play play and good for certain usage but not for merchant9's stated purpose lo.

She meant when you quote other people's post with picture... add spoiler over the pic.

Cheh... I thought u sad cos bankrupt buy new toys:p

investments have return. Toys are just toys

1. Depth of field preview button below the flash button in front of the camera body.

- What you see on the viewfinder is always at the len's biggest aperture. Let's say u use a small aperture like f/16, the dof preview button allows you to preview the dof (duh ) at f/16.

2. How to use the * button and AE lock? What does it do?

Like what it says... it locks the automatic exposure down independent of where you focus it.

Example: If picture come out with white sky.. may consider metering (AE-lock) for the sky and then focus on whatever u wanna focus.

As the other guys have pointed out... whats posted here is the "concise" version. The whole explanation of how metering works etc... can find online. If post here, then will have to post as an e-book. Hahahaha.. of which I'm not qualified to write by far.

We assume you have an understanding of what's Aperture and what's Depth of Field (else read it up lor) for question 1 and how exposure work for question 2.

1) Dof preview.

- Put a coke can or something in front of you, make sure the background is far away... like doing those bokeh shots.
- Go to A-mode, set to f/3.5 look at the viewfinder.... focus on the coke can..... Background should be blur
- Then try set to f/16 or smaller look at viewfinder... focus on the coke can... background should still look blur.

- And then look at viewfinder and press the dof preview (camera will then close the aperture down to the selected size) and do the same thing... everything should be darker (smaller aperture = less light come in) but you should see the background not so blur.

2) AE lock

- This one takes long time to explain... suggest reading up how metering works. Once you understand that, then its easy... AE Lock allows you to lock the auto exposure to anywhere on the frame first and then recompose else where.

- Try to blue sky thing or the dark scene thing posted earlier. That should help by example.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Nov 18 2010, 03:21 PM

Maybe this will help with the AE Lock explanation

http://usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=Ge...&articleID=2547

Finally finished PP'ing your 2K shots?

Oh jangan...fake bokeh is bad for health

Yeah... and now I'm so enamored by Iphone4.. ZERO shutter lag

Also cos Malaysians in general likes big cameras... bigger the better

Wanna share one very useful iPhone app.. Lightmeter. It uses the iphone's camera to measure exposure and quite accurate. Am outside testing it along with my 550D

f1.8 where got enough. Sekali gus f1.4 la

Time to get iphone4

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This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Nov 21 2010, 03:56 AM