50mm F1.2L and 135mm F2L

[picmaniac]

u guys really very cute leh... one with 10+ yrs experience, another with 20+ years experience, which means u guys are already 30+ or 40+ yrs at least... but yet u guys are quarreling like wat i always did in primary school...

imagine:
a) hey look here i got the orange tamiya car sticker!
b) only a orange tamiya car, i got the special shiny sticker of the blue car!
a) but the blue car is the slowest, mine orange although not shiny but its the fastest!
b) i dun care if its the fastest, its shiny thats all i care...

alrite, stop the quarreling, and i hope the 2 masters here can post more pics taken by the 50mm f1.2. that would be more appreciated by thread viewers like me, whom is thinking of getting it.

so, dear masters, start posting pics?

hahaha...ok ok all my postings are for comic relief Makes this forum more exciting mah !

 

[Snoweagle]

yup, i do find that they are wasting their money . period.

Then tell it to them.

 

[surrephoto]

chill guys. Let's not get personal. Let's keep this forum friendly and keep negative comments to yourself.

Back to TS question. He deliberately left out the 85mm, so I assumed he already have this lens and am looking for another prime to addon.

I read somewhere that the 35L, 85L and 135L are the trinity of primes. 35mm provides full body, 85mm half body and 135mm head shoots. I find the 50mm to be neither here nor there. If you use 50mm to take full body, you also capture a lot of surrounding space (can be cropped). If you use 50mm to take half body, you have to move really close and may get a more pronounce facial features. However, if you are not fussy, the 50mm is a very versatile lens in that one lens can be used like a 35 and 85 by moving forward and backwards. It can also be a general purpose lens. So it really depends on TS requirement to use the lens with a more general purpose or one that is tele. I do have some problem with 135L due to lack of IS. Maybe TS can consider the 100L that is due to be released.

Indeed true that 35L, 85L, 50L, 135L are all lenses suitable for some type of portraiture.

My share;

35L is best for environmental portraits.
50L is best when 85L proves to be tight.
85L is best when there is space.
135L is best when you are not going to take full-body*.

*Though this lens is even better for full-body. Fantastic pop and bokeh.

 

[Snoweagle]

Your other pics from the 50mm f/1.2L are of a blythe doll and a hedge. :dunno:

Got somemore lor, some posted very long ago. :bsmilie:

 

[calebk]

Got somemore lor, some posted very long ago. :bsmilie:

A close up of a 70-200 f/4L :dunno:

I don't think anyone has actually seen any actual portraiture from you using this lens.

 

[JoeJerry]

yawn... npnt

 

[Snoweagle]

A close up of a 70-200 f/4L :dunno:

I don't think anyone has actually seen any actual portraiture from you using this lens.

For gdness sake, u can also take other things with this lens, not necessarily portraits.:bsmilie:

 

[Shin Howard]

From your statement, u really don't know anything about shooting portraits.

I don't know everything but definitely a lot more than u do. I've been shooting portraitures for more than 4 years.

Seems you've been posting quite an amount of advise on portrait shots.
But we have yet to see graphical representation of your specialty. :dunno:

 

[Snoweagle]

Seems you've been posting quite an amount of advise on portrait shots.
But we have yet to see graphical representation of your specialty. :dunno:

Just as some others said, do a search. If u're lazy to do that then i also can't help u. Portrait pics i've thousands of them but without approval from the models, i can't post further.

 

[peterpan1975]

This is a Fun thread to read. So Juicy and Spicy ... more more more .. !!! lolx ....

 

[Snoweagle]

This is a Fun thread to read. So Juicy and Spicy ... more more more .. !!! lolx ....

I agree. I'm truly entertained. :bsmilie:

 

[picmaniac]

LOL ,muahahaha...

 

[ManWearPants]

135L is best when you are not going to take full-body*.

*Though this lens is even better for full-body. Fantastic pop and bokeh.

Have to stand very far away using 135L for full body.

I use my 70-200f2.8IS to cover the range of 85, 135. Won't get those thin focus pop of f1.2 but still have creamy bokeh.

 

[JoeJerry]

Have to stand very far away using 135L for full body.

I use my 70-200f2.8IS to cover the range of 85, 135. Won't get those thin focus pop of f1.2 but still have creamy bokeh.

bokeh is subjective...
a friend of mine is happy to see the bokeh from a cheapo EF 50/1.8 lens...

 

[ManWearPants]

bokeh is subjective...
a friend of mine is happy to see the bokeh from a cheapo EF 50/1.8 lens...

It is subjective to a certain extent. If you put the bokeh side by side, you would see the hexagon vs round OoF lights, smoother diffused background, etc.

The thing is how much it matters to your friend. Anyway, to each his own. I do agree we tends to pixel peep a bit too much. When I am much younger, a photo is a photo. Who cares about OoF and bokeh. Are we getting too critical of ourselves?

 

[Limsgp]

There's already a EF100 that can be used like the 180mm macro on FF, when used on a crop camera.

I suspect that Canon launches this macro lens more for the APS-C so that they can use it like a EF180mm macro (160mm for the 100L on a APS-C). Else they would have used larger barrel diameter and front lens elements of 72mm such as that of 135L, 180L for more light to pass through. So the secondary market may only be for the FF users.

 

[JoeJerry]

It is subjective to a certain extent. If you put the bokeh side by side, you would see the hexagon vs round OoF lights, smoother diffused background, etc.

The thing is how much it matters to your friend. Anyway, to each his own. I do agree we tends to pixel peep a bit too much. When I am much younger, a photo is a photo. Who cares about OoF and bokeh. Are we getting too critical of ourselves?

Yea. I have 135L and used to have 50/1.8 lens. So I know what you mean.

My friend has an old 20D camera with kit lens and 50/1.8. He always uses this setup to capture precious event from his 6 months old baby. Even though he uses a cheapo 50/1.8 lens, but he has a lot of amazing pictures when his baby cries, smiles, eats.
Does he care about bokeh? Is he going to upgrade his lens to 50L? The answer is no..
At the end of the day, he and his wife so happy to see the pictures from their lovely baby.

So I wonder why we care so much about bokeh, sharpness, etc and spend a lot of $$$$ to buy those expensive lenses but then the pictures from our expensive gears are s**k...

A good photographer can produce stunning photos even from a PnS camera.

 

[picmaniac]

Yea. I have 135L and used to have 50/1.8 lens. So I know what you mean.

My friend has an old 20D camera with kit lens and 50/1.8. He always uses this setup to capture precious event from his 6 months old baby. Even though he uses a cheapo 50/1.8 lens, but he has a lot of amazing pictures when his baby cries, smiles, eats.
Does he care about bokeh? Is he going to upgrade his lens to 50L? The answer is no..
At the end of the day, he and his wife so happy to see the pictures from their lovely baby.

So I wonder why we care so much about bokeh, sharpness, etc and spend a lot of $$$$ to buy those expensive lenses but then the pictures from our expensive gears are s**k...

A good photographer can produce stunning photos even from a PnS camera.

agree :thumbsup: too many pple here obsessed by gears and think that once they have expensive gears, can tell pple off :sweatsm:

 

[Snoweagle]

Yea. I have 135L and used to have 50/1.8 lens. So I know what you mean.

My friend has an old 20D camera with kit lens and 50/1.8. He always uses this setup to capture precious event from his 6 months old baby. Even though he uses a cheapo 50/1.8 lens, but he has a lot of amazing pictures when his baby cries, smiles, eats.
Does he care about bokeh? Is he going to upgrade his lens to 50L? The answer is no..
At the end of the day, he and his wife so happy to see the pictures from their lovely baby.

So I wonder why we care so much about bokeh, sharpness, etc and spend a lot of $$$$ to buy those expensive lenses but then the pictures from our expensive gears are s**k...

A good photographer can produce stunning photos even from a PnS camera.

Yupz, my friend won photo competitions just by using a PnS. I'm impressed.

 

[peterpan1975]

Yea. I have 135L and used to have 50/1.8 lens. So I know what you mean.

My friend has an old 20D camera with kit lens and 50/1.8. He always uses this setup to capture precious event from his 6 months old baby. Even though he uses a cheapo 50/1.8 lens, but he has a lot of amazing pictures when his baby cries, smiles, eats.
Does he care about bokeh? Is he going to upgrade his lens to 50L? The answer is no..
At the end of the day, he and his wife so happy to see the pictures from their lovely baby.

So I wonder why we care so much about bokeh, sharpness, etc and spend a lot of $$$$ to buy those expensive lenses but then the pictures from our expensive gears are s**k...

A good photographer can produce stunning photos even from a PnS camera.

This might be the old saying:

" If you can't make it, buy something to show people that you can make it. If you can make it, it does not matter what item you use cos you still able to make it"

LOL...