I just bought a Canon 50mm f/1.0 L

Manfr3dManfr3d Registered Users Posts: 2,008 Major grins
edited February 6, 2011 in Cameras
:barb

After a sleepness night ... I picked up a used copy this morning for an
incredible low price at my local camera shop. This boy is hard to master
(focus+recompose is nearly impossible), but here is some unprocessed
pixel-peeping-candy (shot with 5D Mark II):

100% @ f1.0, ISO 400 (pushed 2 stops), 1/100s:
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100% @ f1.0, ISO100, 1/800s:
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100% @ f5.6, ISO200, 1/50s:
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Interestingly the lens is quite sharp wide open at close focussing distances
and stopped down when the subject is further away. On the other hand when
things are close stopping down helps only a bit, and distant objects are
soft when shot wide open. That fact came as a pleasant surprised because
it means to me that it could replace my people fifty lens (sigma 50mm
1.4) and my landscape fifty (50mm 1.8) by this lens.

Now I need to find out what else the lens can do (and how to get rid of ca
and the strong corner vignetting @ f1.0). More pictures will follow!

Thanks for looking!
“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
― Edward Weston

Comments

  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,130 moderator
    edited February 5, 2011
    Try some video with the aperture wide open. Dreamsville man. thumb.gif
    ziggy53
    Moderator of the Cameras and Accessories forums
  • Manfr3dManfr3d Registered Users Posts: 2,008 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2011
    I'm not the greatest videographer Ziggy and my clips are not worth showing ;)
    But here are some more photographs from the last two days taken with this lens:
    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1552624
    “To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
    ― Edward Weston
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