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85mm f/1.2L II USM - Brilliant Lens...

Started Jun 3, 2015 | User reviews thread
Fog Maker Senior Member • Posts: 2,733
Re: 85mm f/1.2L II USM - Brilliant Lens...
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1Dx4me wrote:

Abu Mahendra wrote:

timotale wrote:

Abu, are you saying 85L is a lesser lens?

Abu Mahendra wrote:

I am holding out for an Otus 85, Marco. As you yourself said in another thread, some people are easily impressed with lesser lenses.

Marco will Know what I am saying. After all he is one, by his own admission, who is not easily impressed , unlike the other riff-raff. The blade cuts both ways.

myself, i don't pay any attention to silly charts and graphs. for me, it takes a good while until i get familiar with a lens or a camera! i have about 13 "L" lenses and never regretted purchasing any of them. now, as far as performance is concerned, the lenses that have really impressed me, are: my canon ef 300mm f2.8II. this lens will knock the socks off of anyone if used correctly without TC by itself, whether used for birding or portrait or landscape! it is an amazing piece of engineering. bokeh, micro contrast, and color saturation are out of this world. next, i find my zeiss 100mm f2.0 makro a top notch lens in construction and performance. it is razor sharp and has a very unique micro contrast signature that i haven't seen in any of my lenses. i would have posted some photos taken with both of these 2 lenses but unfortunately, my laptop HD crashed a week ago with all of my unrecoverable photo files! oh, well

cheers.

Sharpness is important though. Luckily the 85mm 1.2 II is up there with the very best,

like the 70-200 2.8 II.

(Sometimes you don't know what to make of those chart (or the testing performed), but all lenses above show their wide open performance, making the Canon the only one at 1.2)

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III Canon EF 85mm F1.2L II USM Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM Canon EF 100mm F2.8L Macro IS USM
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