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<blockquote data-quote="Deuce808" data-source="post: 474764" data-attributes="member: 39784">It'll depend on how close your subjects are.&nbsp; I just went through the yee and yaw between a cheaper 50 1.8 and a more expensive 85 1.8.&nbsp; I already owned the 35 1.8 and got a deal on the 85 1.8 just the other day.&nbsp; With the 35 the typical subject can be as close as 3ft and fill the frame but for close portraits there's some distortion of faces.&nbsp; On the 85 I gotta be 8-10ft away for the same fill with zero distortion. The 50 would be somewhere in between.&nbsp; This makes shooting in a room harder with the longer lens. 35 anywhere in the room, 50 across the room, 85 backed into a corner if at all.&nbsp; Also I use my 35 for most walking around shots when I don't want to break out a bigger/heavier zoom.&nbsp; A lot of reviews complain about the bokeh of the 35, all you gotta do is get some seperation between the subject and the background and it'll look good enough for 7 out 10 people, the remaining 3 probably only like their own pics anyways.&nbsp; in reference to a wider prime, it'll fit more in a frame but composition wise you will need to have something in the foreground or you will just end up with tiny little subjects mid way in your frame.&nbsp; For the price of a 20mm afs prime you can get a 10-24 or 12-24 and have a little freedom of composition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deuce808, post: 474764, member: 39784"] It'll depend on how close your subjects are. I just went through the yee and yaw between a cheaper 50 1.8 and a more expensive 85 1.8. I already owned the 35 1.8 and got a deal on the 85 1.8 just the other day. With the 35 the typical subject can be as close as 3ft and fill the frame but for close portraits there's some distortion of faces. On the 85 I gotta be 8-10ft away for the same fill with zero distortion. The 50 would be somewhere in between. This makes shooting in a room harder with the longer lens. 35 anywhere in the room, 50 across the room, 85 backed into a corner if at all. Also I use my 35 for most walking around shots when I don't want to break out a bigger/heavier zoom. A lot of reviews complain about the bokeh of the 35, all you gotta do is get some seperation between the subject and the background and it'll look good enough for 7 out 10 people, the remaining 3 probably only like their own pics anyways. in reference to a wider prime, it'll fit more in a frame but composition wise you will need to have something in the foreground or you will just end up with tiny little subjects mid way in your frame. For the price of a 20mm afs prime you can get a 10-24 or 12-24 and have a little freedom of composition. [/QUOTE]

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