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refurb 35mm f/2.0 IS, unsure if its a keeper or not, any pointers?

Started Mar 12, 2016 | Photos thread
sleibson Regular Member • Posts: 444
Re: refurb 35mm f/2.0 IS, unsure if its a keeper or not, any pointers?
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It's really hard to tell from this photo. A closeup of a parakeet with a 35mm (wide-angle) lens at f2.8 results in an extremely shallow depth of field, on the order of 1mm. Anything closer or further will be increasingly out of focus. Is that what you were expecting? Lens IS isn't going to help you much with a high shutter speed or with a moving parakeet. As a rule of thumb, if your shutter speed is 2x or 3x faster than 1 divided by the focal length, shutter speed is fine (for handheld, not for a moving parakeet) and does not need IS unless your hands are unusually shaky.

Colors look nice to me. Are they accurate? Canon's lenses are usually pretty good for color.

Are you disappointed with the bokeh? What were you expecting?

If you want to see if the lens is sharp, then go outside with a tripod, set up so that you are aimed straight at a brick wall from several feet away, and click. See if the bricks and mortar are sharp at the edges and the corners of the photo.

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