New photography article for JPG magazine
Monday, August 20, 2007
Just a quick note to let you know my latest article for the online version of JPG Magazine is up. ”Prime Suspect: the plastic fantastic” is a hymn of praise for the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 - a cheap and deeply uncool $70 prime lens.
The JPG site runs on user-generated content, but there’s also a print version available nationally in the US showcasing the best photographs and articles (voted by the users, but also subject to an editorial selection process).
Content for the front page of the site is also chosen by the editorial team, and I’m delighted to say my article was chosen for the front (complete with my accompanying photo).
The article begins:
It’s cheap, plastic and it wheezes. But it’s by far my favorite lens. My precious is the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II lens.
Eschewing such luxury developments as USM focusing or full-time manual (and don’t even think about image stabilization), this $70 lens - known variously as the ‘nifty fifty’. ‘thrifty fifty’ or ‘plastic fantastic’ - produces amazing results.
And the full version is here.