50 1.2 takes a fall...

wxwax

... walk.

I got the lens on Friday, took it for a teeny urban nature walk on Sunday.

Gad, I like the thing! Super duper sharp, great color, feels perfectly weighted on the 5D. The bokeh's a treat, but as you'll see, I really didn't end up using it much. I think I'm in luv.

I live near the Chattahoochee River, which has a small backwater set aside for kayakers. There's a bridge over it. Here are a couple of shots of reflections in the water, taken close to golden light time. I gave the RAW files a serious color tone and saturation tweak in Canon's Digital Photo Pro, and I liked the results. Virtually no Photoshop, this is pretty much all DPP.





I've been reading all about Muench stars, and wanted to try my own. Now, the technique for a star, I gather, is a small aperature. So like the guy who brings a knife to the gunfight, I have in my hands one of the largest aperture Canon lenses on the market. :lol3 f16 is the lens' minimum aperture, it seemed to work OK.



I want to thank B&H for their sale codes which made this lens slightly less unaffordable. I shouldn't have bought it. But now I'm very glad that I did.

george-1

wxwax wrote:

... walk.

I got the lens on Friday, took it for a teeny urban nature walk on Sunday.

Gad, I like the thing! Super duper sharp, great color, feels perfectly weighted on the 5D. The bokeh's a treat, but as you'll see, I really didn't end up using it much. I think I'm in luv.

The first two photos don't really show the sharpness of the lens .

Nice photos.

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George

DJ-S1

Thanks for scaring me with the title, jerk! :bluduh

Nice work with the new lens, good luck with it!

wxwax

DJ-S1 wrote:

Thanks for scaring me with the title, jerk! :bluduh

Nice work with the new lens, good luck with it!

Fabulous lens, I'm amazed at how much I like it. I took some wide shots of a building on my way to the 'Hooch, and was stunned at how sharp they were. And I have to tell ya, I'm not one of those freaks who worries about how sharp their lens is. It's just that this took me by surprise.

wxwax

george-1 wrote:

The first two photos don't really show the sharpness of the lens .

Nice photos.

--
George

Thanks!

Elaine

I love that first shot!

RogersDA

Nice shots, Sid. That vignetting in the first two - is that the subject matter or is is from a hood/postprocess?

schmoo

Skeered me, too, Sid! Nice catchy title. Or not CATCHy, depending how you read into it. :giggle

I've only looked at DPP for five minutes about two years ago, so it's nice to see good results coming out of it! The colors really do have pop.

I have to disagree with George because I think some of the ripples in those reflection shots are quite sharp. Ow, my eye.

And you get an extra cookie for the extra-difficult Muench star!

wxwax

RogersDA wrote:

Nice shots, Sid. That vignetting in the first two - is that the subject matter or is is from a hood/postprocess?

I believe that "vignetting" is just the scene.

Wide open at f1.2 I can see some vignetting, not severe but definitely present.

The shots of water I posted here were taken at f2.0. I haven't tested that setting on a plain subject, but I'm thinking the vignetting would be gone by then. I could be wrong, I'll have to check.

wxwax

RogersDA wrote:

Nice shots, Sid. That vignetting in the first two - is that the subject matter or is is from a hood/postprocess?

Here's my computer screen at f2. I do see a slight vignetting.

RogersDA

wxwax wrote:

Here's my computer screen at f2. I do see a slight vignetting.

But that is so slight that it can be easily removed or cropped out. Probably easily handled at 1.2, too.

Thanks for that info.

Ike615

awesome! I'd love to have that lens. Do you happen to have the B&H sales code you used for it? Not that I can afford it right now but i can always dream.

wxwax

Ike615 wrote:

awesome! I'd love to have that lens. Do you happen to have the B&H sales code you used for it? Not that I can afford it right now but i can always dream.

I saw it in this thread. Dunno if the code's still good.

DJ-S1

So you're the one who uses the white theme...I always wondered.:D

The depth of field on close subjects must be razor thin with that monster, got any examples to show?

wxwax

DJ-S1 wrote:

So you're the one who uses the white theme...I always wondered.:D

The depth of field on close subjects must be razor thin with that monster, got any examples to show?

I went back through the CF card. Nothing that really does a good job of showing the razor narrow dof at 1.2, unfortunately.

wxwax

One more.

Marc Muench

Sid,

Congratulations on your new lens

One of the very best applications for these fast lenses is airviews, especially at sunset. So now that you have EXTRA money hire a pilot and shoot away


Nice star........

wxwax

Marc Muench wrote:

Sid,

Congratulations on your new lens

One of the very best applications for these fast lenses is airviews, especially at sunset. So now that you have EXTRA money hire a pilot and shoot away


Nice star........

And thank you.

System

nice shots sid-

maybe you shouldn't have bought it, but I'm glad you did, too-

wxwax

gefillmore wrote:

nice shots sid-

maybe you shouldn't have bought it, but I'm glad you did, too-

I'm resisting the guilts...

gubbs

Hi Sid,

The reflections are gorgeous, they look like impressionist paintings. Glad that lens is safe

wxwax

gubbs wrote:

Hi Sid,

The reflections are gorgeous, they look like impressionist paintings. Glad that lens is safe

Thanks Gubbsie!

The lens lens is really good with color.