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Bad bokeh limits it's usefulness.

Started Jun 20, 2014 | User reviews thread
Just another Canon shooter
Just another Canon shooter Veteran Member • Posts: 4,691
Re: That's the first I've heard that.

Great Bustard wrote:

Not a problem, actually. You shoot a bunch of different representative scenes with the same camera, lens, and settings, and compare. What are the odds, then, that the real life scenes you shoot are not only way different, but systematically favor one lens over the other?

Huge. When I got my 35L I did just that. Everything was perfect. Then I started using it and realized that I did I had a very poor idea of what a representative set of scenes meant.

There is no substitute for real life experience.

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