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20 Reasons to Love Your 50mm Lens

Chris Gampat
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02/15/2014
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The 50mm lens is a favorite amongst many photographers. However, there are some that don’t warm up to this focal length as much as others. Either way, it’s a lens that can prove to be very versatile and may probably even stay glued to your camera.

Here are just a couple of reasons why those lenses do so well.

Nearly True to the Way to Human Eye Works

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It’s Great for Portraits

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They’re Great for Candids

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They Can be Fantastic Landscape Lenses

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50mm is Perfect for Street Photography

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They Come in All Varieties and Apertures

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Cartier-Bresson Loved His

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Reach + Fast Aperture = Great for Concerts

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They’re the Lens Lots of Photographers Learn On

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Even When They’re Not the Sharpest, They’re Still Pretty Good

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You Can Bring it Anywhere and Rely on Its Versatility

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Because You Love the Bokeh

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Your Pets Love Them

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They Make Food Look Good

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50mm Lenses Tend to Be Not Too Big or Too Small

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Excellent Distortion Control

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They’ll Teach You to Get Closer to Your Subjects

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They Beat the Hell Out of Kit Zooms

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You’ll Get Addicted Really Fast

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It Forces You to Become a Better Shooter When Taken Seriously

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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