I finally got my hands on one the lens everybody and their mothers been telling
me about the Canon 50mm but isn't anything good for making YouTube
videos stay with me and find out
what is going on I'm the one they call Shmojoe14
and if you're new here I'd like to say what's up to you so the moment that
some of my subscribers and friends heard that I was shooting video with a canon
T2i they were all like a bro you know what you need in your life the Canon 50
millimeter lens yeah the nifty fifty have you heard of it
and I was like no I haven't heard of it fellow human inform me so I started
asking around to friends and family to see if any of them had this fabled
unicorn of a lens turns out my coworker had the lens himself and he was actually
willing to let me use the thing that made this video a lot easier to shoot
what I have here is canons fabled nifty 50 lens the lens that shows up in pretty
much every beginner tutorial or you got to have this in your camera bag type
video online this one I have here is the Canon lens EF 50mm 1.4 USM now
this lens is considered a prime lens what does that mean to us it's a lens
that has a fixed focal length and no adjustable zoom so instead of being able
to point at your subject and actually zoom in on the photo itself
you got to physically move the camera in or out to get this shot that you want
okay so you heard me ramble off a bunch of random letters and numbers when I was
reading off the lens cap of this thing I know that I look like a world-renowned
cinematographer and truly I'm flattered but I'm not an expert in lens
specifications or cameras themselves I'm just some dude trying to make sense of
it all and learning as I go and I'm trying to teach you guys that
are the same skill level as myself if you guys are looking for more advanced
techniques and an absolute beast in photography I want you guys to go over
and check out Peter McKinnon he mops the floor with me as far as Camera knowledge
goes I'm gonna go ahead and link his channel up in the card up top are people
still watching yeah okay let's keep this gravy train rollin then so the first
part of this entire thing is the canon EF
portion Canon itself well that should be pretty explanatory but the EF portion
is what we're worried about EF means electro focus well that means
us is the autofocus capabilities of the lens is handled by a motor that's built
into it internally this one's fit with an EF type mount that's gonna fit into
any Canon body that has an EF type mounting body the motor in this
particular lens is where the USM portion on the end of it actually comes in what
that means is ultra sonic motor basically all that means for me and you
is that that motor is going to be quieter than motors in a cheaper lens
when your auto focusing and using that function next up we have the 50
millimeter designation which is the distance from the lens itself to the
internal portion of the camera what you need to know about that is the higher
the number the more zoomed in your image is going to be obviously a lower number
is going to mean it's more zoomed out if the camera is in the same position if it
has an adjustable focal length like the 18 to 55 millimeter kit lens that means
you can actually use the control ring and zoom in and out physically with the
lens itself making the image closer or farther away all right now the big
kicker the f-stop this lens is claim to fame is a 1.4 f-stop what is an f-stop
though it's actually a numerical representation that's given to us on
screen to know how far the aperture is open now the next portion of that is what's
an aperture aperture is basically a hole in the lens that allows light to pass
through onto the camera sensor in the body to understand aperture further
you're gonna need to understand about aperture blades they're basically small
metal segments inside the lens itself the camera body controls those the more
open they are the more light that passes through the more closed the less light
that passes through adjusting the f-stop to its lowest setting is gonna give you
the brightest image possible it's gonna open that aperture up real wide and
allow as much light as possible through the lens onto the camera sensor
alternatively though doing this is going to reduce the cameras field of depth you
know those pictures you see where the backgrounds real blurry all around but
the subject itself is really in focus that's where the f-stop comes in you
raise that number up you're gonna increase the field of depth which is
going to give you less blur in the background now that we have a grasp of
actually what's going on here I'd like to get this lens mounted on the camera
see what my youtube videos would be looking like good old movie magic all
right so we've got the camera about 6 feet away now we actually had to move
the thing back about 2 to get it framed up properly everything
else is the same except for on a 1.4 aperture now we took the ISO down from
800 to 200 to actually get the exposure levels correct everything else is the
same so this is the type of video you're gonna be getting if you're shooting
talking-head type videos now you may also be wondering does it do b-roll yeah
she do b-roll
this lens have been proven to be a great lens from videographers and
photographers from all walks of life you guys can get a hold of it for around the
260 dollar mark now there's another brand called a yongnuo
and they actually make a 50 millimeter lens that mounts to the
canons for around the 45 dollar mark and has an f-stop of 1.8 though let me know
if you guys would like me to review that lens and take it out for a spin I can
see if I'm get my hands on one if you guys like this one go ahead and leave me
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I'd like to say thanks for hanging out with me