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Canon EF 50mm f/1.0L USM
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Review Date: Feb 6, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $4,000.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Widest aperture available for 35mm, bokeh, color, build quality, accurate focus
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Cons:
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Price, heavy.
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Cons - The lens is incredibly expensive in new condition. Rather large and heavy for a 50mm lens. Focus speed is slightly faster than 85mm f/1.2L mk II, in other words, slow. Lens flares easily when shooting into the sun. Barrel distortion evident.
Pros - 1.0 is amazing. Shooting in near darkness, capturing the otherwise uncapturable. The colors are beautifully rendered in tones and saturation. Build quality is excellent, and focus is accurate, snapping with confidence.
Mixed - Lens is not as sharp as the 85mm 1.2Ls, but sharper or sharp as the 50mm 1.2 in the samples I owned/tested. Lens vignettes HEAVILY in many lighting conditions, beautiful for vintage photos/portraits, but easily can annoy those who don't like vignetting. Very low contrast, which I love, but if you like snappy photos/jpeg out of camera, well you might need to turn up the contrast settings.
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Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM
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Review Date: Jan 1, 2008
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Recommend? no |
Price paid: $1,400.00
| Rating: 3
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Pros:
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The lens has nice quality finish, bokeh is nice and colors are vivid.
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Cons:
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It doesn't focus properly. Not very sharp.
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Tamron AF 28-75mm f2.8 XR Di Zoom
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Review Date: Mar 14, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $310.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Lightweight, versatile, sharp, cheap!!!
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Cons:
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Build quality is not that great. Feel like plastic kit lens 18-55.
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This is my little workhorse, always on my camera, studio, outdoor, always fun! Great bokeh, lightweight, close-focusing. Will I ever need any other lens? :-)
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