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Total winner. No-brainer RF lens

Started Mar 7, 2019 | User reviews thread
quiquae Senior Member • Posts: 2,265
Re: Total winner. No-brainer RF lens

J A C S wrote:

You posted closeups. If this is what you need it for, fine.

I downloaded a bunch of images from IR taken with this lens and the RP. What I see there is mediocre, at best. I cannot believe that Canon would make such a lens at whatever price point. Strong PF, double line bokeh, you name it.

https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/canon-eos-rp/canon-eos-rpGALLERY.HTM

I didn’t have time to go through the entire set on IR, but if the white flower closeup is the one you looked at to check the bokeh, I agree that it looks horrendous with busy bokeh and double-lines all over the place, my goodness. If that was the best my RF 35mm could do, I’d be as acerbic about it as you!

However, that frame has so many fine-grained features in the foreground and background that I have a hard time imagining any lens looking good shooting that at 35mm and F2.8.

If I were asked to shoot that subject matter, I’d put away the RF35 and use an EF100F2.8L wide open to blow away the background, and even then I won’t feel confident about getting a nice blurry background. If forced to use the RF35, I’d try shooting either wide open to try to clean up the background a bit more, or stopping way down to drag the annoying foreground blur on the flower petal into the DoF—in any case, I’d avoid the half-baked compromise at F2.8 used by the tester.

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