The 50mm lens is one lens that every photographer should have, no matter how amateur or professional you are. It's the one lens I will take me with on every single shoot because it has so many uses; I've used it for portraits, nature photography, close-up and even sports, because of this and because of how cheap it is it would make an excellent starter lens to any budding photographer. Although it is a prime lens and therefore has no zoom range it's incredibly sharp in outside light and you can easily crop tightly into a photo with none or little quality loss. This particular nifty fifty is also probably one of the cheapest on the market, there is also a F1.4 ...  Read the complete review

This Nikkor 50mm 1.8 AFD is one of the first lenses I owned for my DSLR's. Its remains the cheapest lens I have bought so far and optically, although it has no stabilising trickery or high end super glass it is still my best performing lens by a mile. Lenses can be broadly split into two catagories - Zoom and Prime lenses. A zoom lens gives you the most flexibility of composition in one lens by comprimising quality across the range and giving you the best it can at all focal lengths. A prime lens is fixed at one focal length (in this case 50mm), this does mean that to compose your shot you must move. Using your actual feet! This also means that each piece of ...  Read the complete review

Choosing a lens for your SLR camera can be a daunting process - when you're spending vast amounts of money, it's important that you buy the right one. If you haven't got masses of cash to splash, then Nikon's 50mm 1.8D could be the ideal product for you. Costing £98 from amazon.co.uk, the 1.8D offers superb value for money and is arguably the best lens you can get for the price. Nikon's lenses are traditionally top drawer in terms of their quality, and this one is no different - the use of exceptionally high quality glass translates into super sharp shots. Specifications - - - - - - - - - So let's get down to the essentials, and primarily the lens's ...  Read the complete review