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Best Canon 50 ever

Started Feb 12, 2019 | User reviews thread
OP Lee Baby Simms Contributing Member • Posts: 931
Re: Tried 4 copies ...
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Perfect in everyway, except the busy bokeh wide open (compared to 35L II).

You’re not the first person I’ve heard say that bokeh gets less busy slightly stopped down. I’d really love to see an example of two shots of the same scene, one wide open and one stopped down where the bokeh is better, if you have ever done a comparison?

Many thanks

Shane

I don't have any progressive comparisons on hand (deleted them after the quick test), but here's the busy bokeh at 1.2

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomkphoto/46422926181/in/dateposted-public/

Not so bad here at 1.2 ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomkphoto/46353669104/in/dateposted-public/

Here's 1.6 ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomkphoto/44606416460/in/dateposted-public/

and 2.0, oddly the balls are not fully round ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomkphoto/40112389953/in/dateposted-public/

compared to the 35L II, in roughly the same spot (a different day, on a Mark IV) ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomkphoto/47022032172/in/dateposted-public/

I always have to frame it that it's not that the RF50 is bad, it's that the 35L II is perfect.

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