>>3282601You don't need a wide lens, you just need to know how to use your camera.
If you're using the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II you're going to get soft as hell images until you hit f/2.8. After that go no further than f/8 unless you REALLY want that extra depth of field, because that lens shits itself on anything smaller than f/8.
If you're capturing still subjects you'll actually want to turn off the autofocus and ignore your viewfinder and shoot in live view. Use the two zoom buttons and the d-pad to get as close as possible to what you want to focus on with the digital zoom and adjust the focus ring until it's tack sharp.
That and a lot of perceived sharpness actually comes out through editing. Sometimes things will be in focus, but look soft, and it turns out to not be the lenses fault, but the camera itself for poorly processing the image.
I'm on an incredibly poor man's set up and shot thousands of photos this way with a rebel and the same 50mm f/1.8 II
