30mm Lens - Whats it do?

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Iv had my camera since christmas and im already thinking about more lenses, the lens in question is this 30mm pancake lens

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/...type=lenses&tab=featurespec&subsubtype=lenses

Will the f2 stop be much different to the f3.5 im using now? Will it allow me to take nice blurry photos with a shallow depth of field? And are their any other advantages to this lens?

Thanks in advance

Chris
 
Presumably you have some sort of kit lens with an aperture from 3.5-5.6 or similar, so at the longest end of the zoom, you loose a lot of light.

The lens you posted will be considerably brighter and will provide much nicer OOF areas known as Bokeh.

Other advantages I guess are size and weight, but of course its a fixed focal length, so you need to move your feet to get the composition you want.
 
This looks like an ideal lens for the Samsung 1.65x crop factor and will feel like a 46mm lens would on a 35mm film camera. F2 is fine - I have a f/1.4 lens but could happily live with f/2 - still far better than a consumer zoom (or even a pro zoom).
 
Thanks for the replys..

Yeh i have just got the standard kit lens at the moment 18-55mm f3.5-5.6.

Will there be a huge difference in the depth of field? I maybe off the ball here but i have tried taking shots at f3.5 and f5 on my current lens and i cant see much different as far as DOF is concerned.

Chris
 
Chrissymx said:
Thanks for the replys..

Yeh i have just got the standard kit lens at the moment 18-55mm f3.5-5.6.

Will there be a huge difference in the depth of field? I maybe off the ball here but i have tried taking shots at f3.5 and f5 on my current lens and i cant see much different as far as DOF is concerned.

Chris
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Easy to get a blurry background even at f5.6. The critical factor is magnification. Set zoom to long end and get close to your subject and also keep your subject away from the background.

Nice blurry backgrounds :)
 
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