Worth having 50mm 1.8 and 100mm Macro?

helios

So, I've just ordered my 100mm Macro (thank you B&H, €300!!). Is it worth keeping the 50mm as well? The type of photography I'll be doing is anyone's guess, but at the same time, it's not doing me any harm in having...

any thoughts?

Borderfox

I have both and they get a lot of use. The 50mm I have is the f1.4. Do you use the 50mm f1.8 with extension tubes for macro also?

helios

Borderfox wrote: »

I have both and they get a lot of use. The 50mm I have is the f1.4. Do you use the 50mm f1.8 with extension tubes for macro also?

No, I use it without the tubes...

Borderfox

No problem then keeping both, two very different lenses. 100mm macro is a super lens

elven

You can use the fifty in *very* low light (because of the wide aperture and also the fact that it's a shorter focal length allowing you to handhold at slower shutter speeds) for random stuff - the 100 is more of a daylight portrait and dedicated macro lens, it's a different animal entirely. You'd be taking a chance by getting rid of the 50.

Glad you're going to be a member of the 100 club

Eirebear

I have the 50mm and the 100mm (not the macro one though) and both get a lot of use tbh.
i suppose it depends on what your doing with them, if you find your not using one at all then get rid... but if your using it, and can envisage yourself using it then keep it.

challengemaster

elven wrote: »

You can use the fifty in *very* low light (because of the wide aperture and also the fact that it's a shorter focal length allowing you to handhold at slower shutter speeds) for random stuff - the 100 is more of a daylight portrait and dedicated macro lens, it's a different animal entirely. You'd be taking a chance by getting rid of the 50.

Glad you're going to be a member of the 100 club

pff, you're nothing until part of the L club!!!

what's been said about the 50 is true though, great for low light conditions
tis a keeper!

Paulw

challengemaster wrote: »

pff, you're nothing until part of the L club!!!

Nah, you want to be in the 300 L Club.

I have the 50mm f/1.4 and the 100mm f/2.8 macro. Both great lenses for what they do. Very different but both great. I can't see why you would want to get rid of either, except for being short of money.

bovril

I don't have the 100mm, I do have it's poorer cousin the Sigma 105mm. I use my 50mm as Elven says for lower light conditions and for IR stuff. Don't think the 100mm has the same filter size as the 50mm and the Sigma 105mm is definately not the same size.

helios

I think I'll hold on to them both. The 100mm has already been paid for and all, so it's not the money, just curious what people had to say.

@Bovril; my IR filter is 58mm, same as the 100mm and I use the step-up ring on the 50mm, though I don't know how much IR shooting I'd do with the 100mm... good point

helios

challengemaster wrote: »

pff, you're nothing until part of the L club!!!

Where's your L lens?

ciaran1

Helios
Will you have to pay duty on goods coming in from the U.S.A ?
Has anyone purchased from B&H before ?

Thanks

helios

ciaran1 wrote: »

Helios
Will you have to pay duty on goods coming in from the U.S.A ?
Has anyone purchased from B&H before ?

Thanks

I'm getting mine sent to Canada, where I'll pick it up in a few weeks. Thank you NAFTA

I've been stung, as most people have, getting things sent to Ireland from B&H. It's a great shop though, they have everything, and are well priced.

thebaz

same kind of question , i have a Nikon 50 mm, f 1.8 , and a Sigma f 1.4 , 30 mm .
The Sigma i will keep , but the 50 is relativly cheap , and light , am i wise keeping it , rather than trading it in for my next lens, the expese-ivish 18 - 200 .

challengemaster

helios wrote: »

Where's your L lens?

Waiting to be shipped

24-70mm goodness \o

melekalikimaka

L bah...VR is where its at

Fajitas!

L IS tbh Tom.

Quackles

challengemaster wrote: »

Waiting to be shipped

What a coincidence, MY L lens is waiting to be shipped, too!! Of course, first I have to save for it, order it and pay for it... Could take a while

leinsterman

Worth having ???

Are you kidding ????

It should be illegal not have the nifty 50 ... though I have replaced mine with the 50 F1.4 after it got damaged ....


As for the 100mm ... I love mine it makes a good portrait lens also ...

mloc

ciaran1 wrote: »

Helios
Will you have to pay duty on goods coming in from the U.S.A ?
Has anyone purchased from B&H before ?

Thanks

I've ordered several times from BH, mostly for video/audio stuff. Always got taxed. It's a pain, but sometimes, it still works out cheaper, and for some of the stuff I was ordering, I'd either get totally raped buying it in Ireland or just wouldn't be able to find it.