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Anyone using 5D MOSTLY with 50 1.4?

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Carlo Chiopris said:
Lawrence Murray said:
I am just starting to get to love this lens again, on the 5D its a
gem, it also makes you think about composing, with the zoom you
stay in the one spot, with the 50mm you have to move about, reminds
me of the old days again. I hardly ever get vignetting with the 5D,
I think that is hyped up too much in the nikon forum
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Beautiful shots, just my kind. There are "defects" in a lens that I
like, or I can live with: some vignetting, some PF. The main issue
is getting the shot in low light, the rest comes after.

Carlo
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Agreed, a thing you can only achieve with a full frame camera. Some people don't like the natural vignetting a lens gives, I like having the option.

Here is one from the 24 1.4 at 2.0 on the 5D:



I don't have the 50 but I do have the 35 1.4 and the 85 1.2 and they are stunning!!!

I was shooting a private function tonight for a regular ad client. It was a high end affair with many well known's. They wanted me to shoot it because I do all available light, very candid. When I was shooting in one particular situation, Al Gore and his wife Tipper were nearby. Tipper, a photographer her self came over to me and said: "How on Earth are you getting away with no flash in here?" I simply showed her a perfectly exposed and sharp image shot with the 85L at 1.2, 1/20th of a second at ISO 3,200.

She was floored.

The 5D, these fast lenses.....they are simply out of this world.
 
And why:
  • The picture quality is good and you can cover a wide range of situations with nice out of focus backgrounds
  • Using only a 50mm gives, when showing series, a consistent view.
  • The camera handles well, much better than with larger chunks of glass. It becomes nicely balanced.
I also own the 24-105 IS. A very good lens, but the camera ends up at around 1.6 Kg with lens and of course starts only at f4. The stabiliser is of course very useful.

Some samples:
http://www.pbase.com/alfredg/image/64299947
http://www.pbase.com/alfredg/image/64299948
http://www.pbase.com/alfredg/image/62612276
http://www.pbase.com/alfredg/image/55669357
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Forrest said:
The 5D has an ISO 50 setting, if you dig into the custom functions
to enable it. ( Only have to do that once, though. ) You probably
couldn't use f/1.4 in bright sun at midday, but if you really like
the lens, you could get away with that in the shadows.
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That's another plus wrt my humble D70, that starts at iso200. It's true the problem's usually the opposite (not enough light) but I just bought a ND filter to experiment with long exposure. The 5D seems to solve many of my problems at once.

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Carlo
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Carlo Chiopris said:
Savas Kyprianides said:
when I put it on. Each time it is a rediscovery that reminds me
what luck I had in getting my particular copy of it. It is either
this or the 24-105. Soon, I will get more fast primes once I decide
what focal lengths.
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Do you use just those two lenses? It's the set I've in my mind.

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Carlo
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Right now, yes. This is after many years of using a non lens-interchangeable camera. The 5D and lenses tapped me out temporarily.
 
The 50 is a great lens on the 5D ... very sharp and crisp ... but if you want somethng to take you to the next level ... try out the 85 1.2 ... WOW!!! I shoot with 2 5D's one has the 50 and the other the 85mm 1.2. The 24-105 is ok .... but not in the same legue for low light ... even with IS.

Here's a sample gallery of some 50 and 85 stuff.

http://www.jaymz.ca/natalie

Cheers,

Jaymz!
 
In the real life I use a 300d with some (quite good) lenses. My lens collection is lacking a normal FL fast prime and a superwide zoom. I might easily buy a sigma 30/1.4 and a canon 10-22 right now but I'm blocked because I'm also thinking to radically change and switch to FF.

My dream combo would be 5D + 50/1.4.

I know people are bored to read always post about APS vs FF, so I will not ask for any advice and suffer in silence.

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It was my most used lens on film... and it is my most used lens on digital(1.5x crop). All around most 1.4 are good lenses(I think), usually pretty soft wide open, but excellent when stopped down a bit. The bright viewfinder it gives you will help with manual focus. I like primes because they make me exercise a bit more:)
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Carlo Chiopris said:
That's another plus wrt my humble D70, that starts at iso200. It's
true the problem's usually the opposite (not enough light) but I
just bought a ND filter to experiment with long exposure. The 5D
seems to solve many of my problems at once.
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The major reason I bought a 5D was that my last camera was a 1.6x crop ... and wide angle just doens't work. I got a Sigma 15-30 rather than primes, because at the time my other choice would have been an obscenely expensive 14/2.8 ... they've added a lot more choices since then, but anyway.

The Sigma lens doesn't take filters, so I do a lot of f/22 and ISO 50 work. Sometimes counting on RAW to tame some highlights a little. I just got a 135 mm f/2, though, and I'm also using the slower sensativity to get away with using the lens at full aperture when I've got too much light.

Which, like you say, is a great problem to have!

Anyway, it sounds like you would be very happy, the way you like to shoot.
 
Antonio_2 said:
In the real life I use a 300d with some (quite good) lenses. My
lens collection is lacking a normal FL fast prime and a superwide
zoom. I might easily buy a sigma 30/1.4 and a canon 10-22 right now
but I'm blocked because I'm also thinking to radically change and
switch to FF.
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I'm in the same situation. I thought myself of getting a sigma 30/1.4, but I gave up thinking it would be a temporary solution. I also want a 35/2 to behave as usual, and the possibility (in some future) of 35/1.4. Those primes (or equivalent) exist only for full frame.
Antonio_2 said:
I know people are bored to read always post about APS vs FF, so I
will not ask for any advice and suffer in silence.
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I decided I'll suffer till the Photokina, then I'll take my decision.

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Carlo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cchiopris/
 
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