Canon: Which lens should I buy after the kit lens 18-55mm?

After you buy your Canon DSLR with its kit lens 18-55mm, you would decide which lens I should buy? Or how can I upgrade my shooting performance? 

The answer is simply the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens.

Several reasons why buying or upgrading to this lens:

1- The price is really cheap compared to its functionality as it might cost about 109 euro.

2- The lens shoots at very low light conditions with high quality results as you might expect. You can set the aperture at   f/1.8  compared to the kit lens  f/3.5-5.6 which is a really big difference!

The best thing in this lens's quality is that the image is really sharp.

When shooting with kit lens at low light you will notice that you get  horrible quality results

because you will have to set a higher ISO in which you get too much noise in your picture

unlike the 50mm lens that will result in a really high quality image that has no noise!

Examples of Examples of 50mm f\1.8 low light shots

Examples of kit lens 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 low light shots   

By now the difference should be clearer between both lenses in terms of quality at low light

DID YOU NOTICE THE ANNOYING NOISE WIH THE KIT LENS IN THE SKY?!

3- When shooting with kit lens you might figure that the blur in the background is not that much. However, when shooting with 50mm 1.8 lens the background of the image is completely blurred that you cannot figure out what behind the object you intended to shot.

Note: You can control the amount of blur by changing the aperture. Let's say you set the aperture f\22, you'll notice that the blur had completely disappeared and you get more depth of field.

That is to say, the more aperture the less blur.

Examples of 50mm f\1.8 blur

Examples of kit lens 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 blur

You should have noticed the difference in the amount of blur between both lenses!

4- The size and the weight of the 50mm is incredible. The lens is very small and really light that you can feel it as a plastic toy. Due to this you can easily carry it with you wherever you go with your DSLR-Camera.

The lens has one problem that I faced which is that it does not have image stabilizer!

Now, I had mentioned some benefits of the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 lens which are really matter for most of the photographer especially for starter photographer and for portrait images.

After mentioning these benefits as price, high quality low light shooting, better blur, size and weight, DO you think it deserves to go for it?

YOU decide!!

PS, all picture in this article have been taken by me except the picture of the lens!

Enjoy it,

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