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Beautiful lens with a great focal lenth, canon 100mm

Started Sep 19, 2017 | User reviews thread
Macabron
Macabron Regular Member • Posts: 121
Re: Beautiful lens with a great focal lenth, canon 100mm
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100mm macro, about f8 with flash.

If you can afford it, the L is better just because of the IS and the weather sealing. The IS is extremely useful when doing available light macro.  Optically it is so close as to be irrelevant.  For portraits the canon 100 f2 is better, because it focuses faster, and the 135L is even better for portraits ( faster focus and much nicer bokeh)  and it focuses very close. I realize the Zeiss is sharper, but manual focusing really slows me down. Especially with live creatures (human or otherwise).

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