Scott Larson

Wrong. 95% of people will ask you "How did you get that fantastic picture without a flash?" Everyone is used to seeing snapshots with blinding white flashes from their iPhones. They assume that...

But we do live under incandescent lighting sometimes. Do you find people revolting to look at under warm light because their skin tones aren't "pleasing" to your eyes???

Lots of people say the color temp looks too warm. It looks like realistic color temperature under incandescent light to me. I don't think every photo should have white-hot sunlight in it,...

Yes, tracking cars out in the sunlight is one of the easiest AF challenges I can imagine. Take your 1DX into some dismal indoor light and have it try to track a bunch of unpredictable humans...

Canon marketing had finally gotten rid of the old mindset that a camera or lenses is worth anything after a few years. People constantly demand that lenses be "updated" when they're still excellent...

And many of us at the time got into photography by paying thousands for used FD lenses and cameras. They were still worth a lot of money. I hope you didn't throw yours in the garbage!

They also don't have focus motors.

Your lenses are too clean.

What technique? I put the focus point on my subject and I keep it on my subject as it moves around. I rely on the camera to predict the distance of this subject and not to decide my subject is less...

A single contrasty subject against a distant neutral background. How could it not get this in focus? Try taking a picture of a baseball player standing in front of a chain link fence.

I agree. Canon published a guidebook on how to adjust every little setting in the AF system for a particular situation. The utter stupidity of the examples was that the settings they recommended in...

When was the last time someone said "5D" and meant a Mark II or Mark III? We know 200% what a "5D" with no "Mark X" means. It doesn't need a "classic" or "vintage" moniker on it.

It's the original 5D that everyone loved before they made it taste like Pepsi.

Factors that "stress" the AF of a camera are: Low light. My D30 from 2000 could track in these sunny conditions. Even with my 1D Mark IV I can feel the AF becoming less accurate in EV 7 indoor...

Maybe his 7D is dying, showing a dead battery has a full charge!

That's kind of like saying, "I don't mind shots with small DOF, but isn't it better to take sharp images with deep focus then just replicate the effect in Photoshop?"

But don't ignore the green fringing in the f1.2 shot. I bought the 85mm f1.2 thinking I would have fewer color fringing problems. The improvement is marginal and the wider apertures give me more...

I don't know how the f1.8 could have struggled in low light when Canon AF sensors only extract a maximum of f2.8 of light from lenses.

When I owned the 100mm f2 ten years ago, it was softer at f2 than the 85mm, and this was with the 3 megapixel D30. They were pretty close at f2.8.

But that makes it hard to remove the front element again if you want to clean the internal parts of the lens. ;-)