Hi,,Im looking for a place/person I can rent a lens from,,exactly I want to rent the 50mm 1.8 I wanna try it with my D40..

Please if anyone can do that,,

The 50mm will not AF with your D40.

If you bought the kit, the 18-55mm EDII is as sharp as the 50mm.

Only that it can't go as fast as F1.8.

i'm sure lots of people here have the 50mm f/1.8... join their outings and borrow one...

or go to the shop and test test test

I know it dosnt auto focus,,that's why I wan to try it for a couple of days see if we can be good friends,,

Im into portrait photography and I need a big apreture lense,,
The 18-50 is pretty cool for creative portraites useing it's wide angle,,I have lost of fun with it, but I want to do close ups also..

and yeah i cant offer to buy an auto focus telefoto lense with big apreture,say 2.8.

so please anyone could rent me his 50mm ???

Trust me.
Without the 'split focusing screen', one can't do a perfect manual focus.

hmmm if that the case then how they used to focus back to the days before digital cams ?

these days I been using manual focus for my 18-55 lens,,and honstly;it's the Feeling of Profeassion!

what's more that I've discoverd a whole new photography !

here are some pix

http://xs120.xs.to/xs120/07401/01dd.jpg

http://xs120.xs.to/xs120/07401/05.jpg
combining two images,one is foucused and the another is not is a cool thing

http://xs120.xs.to/xs120/07401/DSC_0890.jpg
u cant really simulate this blur in photoshop,,



it's a photostory I been working on recently..


hmm since the 18-55 has a small apreture I'd agree that it could be easy to get the focus right but not with a big apreture like 1.8,,

But Hell guyz I wana try the 50mm 1.8 pleaaaaaas

can, i rent to u .....wat price r u offering?

i got Canon 5D to rent. Anyone interested? PM me.

Back in the manual days, there're the 'split focus' 'matte focus' & other various types of focusing screens.

I quote from a forum:
"A split-screen focusing aid is that little circle in the middle of the focusing screen that looks like it's been cut into two equal parts with the cut usually running either diagonally at 45 degrees or horizontally. Each half of the circle is actually a small prism.

The way that it works is that when you point the circle over a subject that has vertical lines, when the subject is not in focus, the top half of the lines will not lineup with the bottom half. When you adjust the focusing ring so that the subject is in focus, the lines will all line up perfectly. The diagonal split has the advantage that you can also focus with it using horizontal lines."

Something like this:

scorgio,,thanx for the information man,,yeah I grapped my dad's old canon lense and notice this half circle,,thanx again..hmm i heard there is a green light in the d40 that 'lights' whenever ur supject is in focus of somthin..

that one should be half press and start turning your focusing ring for manual focus...
when the camera detects perfect focus .. it will beep or blink in red....

Cant wait to try it out !!!

I wonder how does that technically work anyway..