Quote Originally Posted by Colin500
Do you (or does anybody else) manage to successfully use the f/1.8 primes wide-open for non-staged shots of relatively fast-moving subjects like small children? I'm having great difficulty handling the thin DoF, heck, even for static subjects I still need to practice some...

Almost all of the photos I take are with my 50/1.8II, indoors,of my 1 year old son. I typically use f2 to f2.8, and I handle the thin DoF by not looking at 100% crops. If it looks good on my screen, it looks good as an 8x10 print. A few days ago I shot a still with my camera on a stack of books (wanted the camera close to the ground) and stopped down to f5. The 100% crop of that shot was amazing, and the print is also, but it doesn't look enough better for me to start to worry about what the 100% crops on my handheld action shots look like.


Lewis