Boycott the 50 1.2

pso said:

at that price it will boycott itself.

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silverarcher said:

HA!
The government tells you what to do and we all bend over.
Now Canon's telling you to bend over.
shrugs

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• Anders @ http://www.andersostberg.com *

silverarcher said:

Everybody's gotta open their mouths and have a friggen opinion.
You know what they say about opinions. They're like @$$ holes --
everybody's got one.
What's even more silly is while I'm out shooting, you're making
posts that no one will ever read. If it makes you feel any better,
keep stretching out the post and wasting the forum's bandwidth. But
as far as I'm concerned, I'll be out shooting and looking up posts
where I can learn a thing or two. So why don't the lot of you just
shoo and read another thread and get Phil to lock this stupid
thread up or something.
It's friggen ridiculous how long this thread has gotten...and it's
no wonder people like you have elected a president like that you
have....but that's OT.

Now excuse me while I prepare to buy some shares in Canon.

--
--cheers!

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Olaf.dk said:

My best lens so far? The 135/2L. It's a 10 element/8 group design,
Price? $800. With that in mind, how Canon can be asking $1600 for a
50/1.2L, a 8 element/6 group design, is beyond me... As far as I
know 50mm lenses are the least complicated to design... I have the
50/1.4 and I'd love to have an L-quality 50mm lens with fast and
accurate AF, round aperture, weather sealing etc, but I am not
willing to pay the equivalent of TWO 135/2L lenses for it!
--
Olaf

'Error is a portal to new discovery'

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silverarcher said:

Everybody's gotta open their mouths and have a friggen opinion.
You know what they say about opinions. They're like @$$ holes --
everybody's got one.
What's even more silly is while I'm out shooting, you're making
posts that no one will ever read. If it makes you feel any better,
keep stretching out the post and wasting the forum's bandwidth. But
as far as I'm concerned, I'll be out shooting and looking up posts
where I can learn a thing or two. So why don't the lot of you just
shoo and read another thread and get Phil to lock this stupid
thread up or something.
It's friggen ridiculous how long this thread has gotten...and it's
no wonder people like you have elected a president like that you
have....but that's OT.

Now excuse me while I prepare to buy some shares in Canon.

--
--cheers!

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silverarcher said:

You know what they say about opinions. They're like @$$ holes --
everybody's got one.

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bionet said:

You might want to check again on this one. Contax introduced AF in
2001.
Actually they had the first working AF cameras 20 years earlier,
they were shown to journalists but never released because it was
thought AF's low accuracy would damage their company's reputation.
Only after technology had advanced far enough did they come up with
what's probably the best AF system around.

The question is what good the 50/1.2 is supposed to be with
anything but an 1D with its advanced AF. When the FD 1.0 and 1.2s
were out, the corresponding manual focus cameras had viewfinders
that were up to a full 20% larger than the 5D's, and in spite of
the larger size, even a bit brighter with their fully reflective
mirror. AF eats a 2/3 stop of VF brightness.

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