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Archive 2009 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

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p.1 #1 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

This is for those folks who love their lenses, or some of them, or even just one of them, so much so that they take their pictures. Yes, we geared-heads do like to take as well as share pictures of our gear.

Show us what your favourite lens(es) is (are) by posting their photos.
Could be a $100 lens or a $12,000 lens......that doesn't matter.
What will matter is how lovingly and/or creatively your images of those lenses are crafted.

I do know some of you guys are real product photography champs. However, the operative words are "lovingly crafted"......which doesn't neccessarily mean professionally slick and polished.

Here is my own 85L MkI.

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Jun 30, 2009 at 12:56 AM

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p.1 #2 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Ok, are those yours and what did you take the shot with?

Jun 30, 2009 at 12:58 AM

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p.1 #3 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

These are on loan, and the shot was done with 50 f/1.2....our favourite, matey.

However, I think I'll post one of my own later on, when I dig it out.

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Jun 30, 2009 at 01:01 AM

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p.1 #4 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

I was thinking it looked pretty 50L-ish!

Nice shot mate, it's like taking a picture of two penny-blacks or two Avro Arrows!

Jun 30, 2009 at 01:04 AM

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p.1 #5 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

You knew it was coming, didn't you?

"Great Grandpa"

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Make no mistake about how much I love this lens, despite the lack of "love" in the shot.

Jun 30, 2009 at 01:29 AM

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p.1 #6 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

cogitech, what's the rationale for the tape job on the body?

Jun 30, 2009 at 01:38 AM

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p.1 #7 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Paul, your love for the grandpa is quite evident.

Well accentuated massive focus ring and fine front element reflection.

Jun 30, 2009 at 01:45 AM

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p.1 #8 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Well, I guess I'm not really one for romantic gear pictures. Usually, my glass only sees the front of the camera mounted. But I do have a picture of last year's love affair, my first full frame Canon SLR and the 85L.

The photo is as quick, impromptu and dirty as our relationship was - taken on a hotel room desk with flash bounced off of a pillow.
In the end we got along too well and now I'm mostly seen with a 5D and the 35L mounted...

Jun 30, 2009 at 01:57 AM

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p.1 #9 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

globalkiwi wrote:
cogitech, what's the rationale for the tape job on the body?

Not being a brand snob?

idk usually that's what i'd do it for but to each their own!

Evam

Jun 30, 2009 at 02:01 AM

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p.1 #10 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Well done, Zara.....a crisp and clean piece of graphic art.

Jun 30, 2009 at 02:05 AM

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p.1 #11 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

ooh, time for a little gear porn!

Lovely shots so far guys.

"Lovingly crafted"... let's see what is in the collection 'o Ariel...

My trusty 1D in all its sexy glory:

My laptop, complete with a pair of USB eyes to go along with its frog-like smile:

Some more of the photo shebang, set up to shoot some horizontal panos:

Jun 30, 2009 at 02:15 AM

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p.1 #12 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Gotta' say it... does it impress anyone else as more than a bit strange to take photographs of your lenses? ;-)

Jun 30, 2009 at 02:18 AM

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p.1 #13 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Ariel, we can always count on you to lead with creativity.

Jun 30, 2009 at 02:32 AM

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p.1 #14 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

gdanmitchell wrote:
Gotta' say it... does it impress anyone else as more than a bit strange to take photographs of your lenses? ;-)

Not much stranger really than talking about lenses as opposed to just using them in a taciturn manner.

Jun 30, 2009 at 02:33 AM

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p.1 #15 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Peter..how do you like your 50L ?. It's the focal length I really like but I'm worry about all the focus shift issue.

Jun 30, 2009 at 02:36 AM

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p.1 #16 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

kewlcanon wrote:
Peter..how do you like your 50L ?. It's the focal length I really like but I'm worry about all the focus shift issue.

Kewl, I do like it. However, I do not not photograph close-up things with it because of the focus shift. In all other respects it's a very good lens.

Here is probably my most loved lens, or a stylized image of it.

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Jun 30, 2009 at 02:41 AM

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p.1 #17 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

I always believed in BigFoot/Yeti/Sasquatch, Peter ! Just didn't know he could write...and was a leftie like me.

Jun 30, 2009 at 02:51 AM

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p.1 #18 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

PetKal wrote:
Here is probably my most loved lens, or a stylized image of it.

Mmmmh, sexy!

Jun 30, 2009 at 02:59 AM

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p.1 #19 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Sasquatch's hand

Jun 30, 2009 at 03:08 AM

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p.1 #20 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

kirry007 wrote:
I always believed in BigFoot/Yeti/Sasquatch, Peter ! Just didn't know he could write...and was a leftie like me.

Kiran, the twist is that the model for that shot was left-footed !

Here is another shot of my baby with its alternative hood.

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Jun 30, 2009 at 03:26 AM

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p.1 #21 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Ain't no sense in posting a picture of the lens you love without showin' why you love it. A snapper of my old* macro rig AND what I did/do with it...

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I'll post an updated rig image at a later date.

Jun 30, 2009 at 04:11 AM

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p.1 #22 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

After a couple of years with fast primes on a 30D i stepped up to 5DMKII
with a 24-70.

I'M IN LOVE WITH IT!

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Jun 30, 2009 at 11:38 AM

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p.1 #23 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

If you've got any of these three, you are cookin' at medium-long FL: The Chubby, The Snout and The Redeemer.

(The reason I nicknamed 200 f/2 IS "The Redeeemer" is that compared to many of its latest EOS gear offerings, Canon seem to have managed to develop an excellent top notch product. No ifs, buts, flaws and limitations found with it yet, other than its (still) excessive price. Granted, the EF 800L might be yet another "redeemer" product, however, I have no experience with it, and most probably never will nor care to.

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Jun 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM

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p.1 #24 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Gert-Jan Maas wrote:
After a couple of years with fast primes on a 30D i stepped up to 5DMKII
with a 24-70.

I'M IN LOVE WITH IT!

Very nice, Gert-Jan. So how do you mount that Vespa on your 5DMkII ?
A special adapter made by Moto-Guzzi ?

Jun 30, 2009 at 11:52 AM

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p.1 #25 · Share your Lens-Love in Pictures

Which one is the Godfather ?

PetKal wrote:
If you've got any of these three, you are cookin' at medium-long FL: The Chubby, The Snout and The Redeemer.

)

Jun 30, 2009 at 12:32 PM


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