{"id":438,"date":"2009-07-30T07:44:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T11:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/?p=438"},"modified":"2009-07-30T07:44:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T11:44:44","slug":"fiddy-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2009\/07\/30\/fiddy-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddy Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jholland444\/3769436972\/\" title=\"FIDDY LOVE by jholland444, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3588\/3769436972_0c66501104.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"FIDDY LOVE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used a couple different lenses in my day, but I keep finding myself coming back to my beloved 50mm f\/1.8 lens.  It&#8217;s the lens I used to take pictures of my girls when they were infants so that I could eschew the flash.  It&#8217;s the lens I use at concerts if I can get close enough to the stage.  It&#8217;s the lens I use for nice blurry backgrounds.   I&#8217;m amazed that it&#8217;s such a versatile and powerful lens for such a cheap pricetag.  I&#8217;m of the opinion that everyone with an SLR should own one of these, especially if you don&#8217;t have a full-frame sensor, be it Nikon or Canon.  At some point, I may break down and get the 35mm f\/1.8 DX which seems like it would be easier to use in crowded indoor situations where I can&#8217;t back up enough, but for now, this little guy goes with me just about everywhere I go with my camera, even if I have another lens mounted.  <\/p>\n<p>Flickrites call the obsession with this lens &#8220;Fiddy Love.&#8221;  Love my Fiddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used a couple different lenses in my day, but I keep finding myself coming back to my beloved 50mm f\/1.8 lens. It&#8217;s the lens I used to take pictures of my girls when they were infants so that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2009\/07\/30\/fiddy-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}