One of my favorite lenses on my 5D II FF camera. I use it pretty much for anything - sceneries, street photography, portraits, landscape, close-ups. Still the lens really shines at fast apertures of f/2 and faster. Since I bought it a few years ago, I rarely even touch my 24-70/2.8 lens. This lens is a real light-sucker!
I love the drawing style of the 50 1.2. It has gorgeous colour and really nice bokeh. I love the 50mm focal length and this is the best canon 50 I have used. While it is probably my favourite lens, it sees less use these days, as I find the 35 to be a more versatile focal lenth.
I like the perspective of the 50L for certain partial portraits that may contain blurred background around f/1.2...but I still end up liking the images from the 85L more, so I have gone back to primarily using 35/85 after toying with 50 for a while.
lucas lumiere wrote:
I love the drawing style of the 50 1.2. It has gorgeous colour and really nice bokeh. I love the 50mm focal length and this is the best canon 50 I have used. .
+1
Same experience here. Not the sharpest lens I own, but more than sharp enough and I really like how it draws the image.
For me - It didn't work. I didn't find the 50mm view inspiring. I prefer 35 and 85 on ff.
Thanks! I also have the 35L & 85L -- amazing lenses! If I'm going to carry two lenses, the 50L stays home and I take the 35 & 85. Not much you can't do with that combo of lenses! However, when I want to just carry one lens, I take the 50L. I'm never disappointed with what I get
I love the softness of edges, color, and vignetting of this lens. When used at wider apertures, it has just the right amount of inherent DOF from the 50mm focal length. Mine gets extremely sharp overall from f/4 and smaller.
James Taylor wrote:
Thanks! I also have the 35L & 85L -- amazing lenses! If I'm going to carry two lenses, the 50L stays home and I take the 35 & 85. Not much you can't do with that combo of lenses! However, when I want to just carry one lens, I take the 50L. I'm never disappointed with what I get
This is really true. Now that the 24-70II is so good, I hardly reach for my other L primes. If you like the 50 focal length (I love it) it is really the only way to go. I have tried all of the canon 50s plus 3 sigmas and Leica and the 50L has it all. If I only had one lens it would be a very hard decision between this and the 24-70II. 2 lenses it would be the 50L plus 24-70II no question. I never got why people say the lens is challenging etc. mine has always been spot on
its fast, bokeh is great, color too
af is also really fast (comparing to 85/1.2 ;-) ) and i never had af problems with it
it is always with me (when i have camera )
focal length is very personal thingy, for me it is 24, 50, 135
yes 35 and 85 are great lenses, but i got rid of the 35 (for the above reason) and do not use 85 that much(anyway can not imagine selling it, its just so special )
It's light, portable, has great color & bokeh, and forces me to engage my images and think things through more since I don't have the luxury of zooming. And the 50mm focal length is popular for a reason - it's so versatile, and if something catches your eye, chances are that you can render that same vision with the 50mm focal length.
Yeah, its the unicorn that I always wanted and I saw Canon finally got them in stock with their refurbished with 15% off. I know I always wanted it in my bag so might as well take the plunge.
Because it draws almost as well as the Panleica 25/1.4
I will say up close i wasnt too impressed with my CPS loaner, but shots at 10ft+ were outstanding
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