Thank you for the tests! Very good and useful pictures to see the quality of the lens. I am glad that it is sharp but I am a bit concerned about out of focus highlights.
How do you think it may compare with your 85 L as far as bokeh (especially highlights) is concerned
mfurman wrote:
Thank you for the tests! Very good and useful pictures to see the quality of the lens. I am glad that it is sharp but I am a bit concerned about out of focus highlights.
How do you think it may compare with your 85 L as far as bokeh (especially highlights) is concerned
I did some test shots with a dark room/flowers and a super bright sunny window in the background. Here is one of those test shots. Seems fine to me.
Jonas B wrote:
Secondly the octogonal shape is surprising to me. From reading the press releas I was under the impression that the 50/1.2L should come with rounded aperture blades and thus show a round shape for OOF highlights and not this typical trace of eight blades.
But the "roundness" is only really available at f/2.8 or wider. It would be impossible to have a round aperture using 8 blades for every aperture unless they were somehow able to morph the curve of the blade dynamically.
Sam Bennett wrote:
But the "roundness" is only really available at f/2.8 or wider. It would be impossible to have a round aperture using 8 blades for every aperture unless they were somehow able to morph the curve of the blade dynamically. ;)
You may be right. I don't remember anything about morphing blades. :)
I also didn't think about the number of blades... maybe I deep inside myself associated to the old USD60 Jupiter-9 with 15 blades and round opening way beyond f2.8... But as I said, you can't get it all. What do you think about the bright rings?
Nice samples Gary. UPS brought mine by my work today, got to love Saturday delivery. I plan to take it out tonight and tomorrow to do some comparision shots with my 85L ll.
Here is one of the first shot from the new "Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM". This shot was from a friends son who was with us at the store when I picked up the lens. It was late afternoon, already dark outside so I used what I could to try the lens out.
This is a RAW file, ISO 400 on a 30D. f/1.2 at 1/400. I brought it into Lightroom, slight adjustment in levels and WB, downsized and sharpened in PSCS2, converted to sRGB and saved to web at 75%.
I could strive for a "better" test environment, but I'm not that interested how the lens performs under theoretical test, only in the way I plan to use it, i.e. can it deliver under poor/available light conditions?
I'll definitely make some more exposures tomorrow.
madmax200 said: I did some test shots with a dark room/flowers and a super bright sunny window in the background. Here is one of those test shots. Seems fine to me.
Thank you again. Your tests are very helpful to me and others, I am certain.
