>>3359397>When will you guys ever learn ?When will YOU guys ever learn?
There are different reasons people take photos. Here's three of the major ones:
1. For documentation (e.g., news photography or just straight-up copying artworks in a museum so you can make prints)
2. For art
3. For fun
For 1, yeah, you want to have the sharpest, highest-quality lens you can get.
For 2, sometimes you want a sharp, high-quality lens, but sometimes you want to have a weird lens with lots of optical "defects" because you prefer the effect it gives you.
For 3, it's whatever. Get what's fun. Cheap fast lenses are fun to play with.
I've got a Nikon 50/1.2 that I whip out nearly ever photoshoot I do. Not the legendary NOCT-Nikkor 58/1.2 that regularly goes for thousands of dollars used and manual focus, but the 50/1.2 that they made just to show they could make a 1.2 and didn't really expect anyone to actually use. From a technical standpoint, the lens sucks wide open. It's fuzzy, it's blurry, and f/1.2 means that I have to sloooowly manually focus in zoomed-in live view mode. But I like the results I get with it. It's fun, and I like the look as an artist.
If your style of shooting is for pure documentation, then no, it's not what you want. But your style of shooting is not everyone's style of shooting.
