My Nikon gear.: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8: the old faithful

This was the first lens that I owned and still is my most frequently used lens. The lens is light, compact, and very affordable. Nikon people tend to believe that Nikkor 50mm f1.8 is the best f1.8 50mm lens. (Canon people may say their 50mm f1.4 is the best f1.4 lens.) The truth might be a 50mm is the easiest to manufacture, so almost all brand-name 50mm lenses are pretty good. The optical formula for Nikon's 50mm f1.8 lens has not been changed for quite a long time, because there is no need to change. That is another way to see that a 50mm lens is of very good optical quality.

For classical SLRs, a 50mm lens is considered as a "normal" lens. Basically, that means the angle of view of this lens is very close to the angle of view of your eyes. In digital SLR era, the crop factor narrows the angle of view of this lens. Many people will use a 35mm lens as their normal lens instead.

However, a 35mm lens is much more expensive than a 50mm lens. There are still a lot can be done using this 50mm f/1.8. What can it do? Many things, landscape