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EF Lenses on R Mount (f/1.2 portrait primes)

Started Jun 20, 2020 | Discussions thread
saltydogstudios
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Re: EF Lenses on R Mount (f/1.2 portrait primes)

enigmatico wrote:

Have you seen this article that someone else linked to on another thread?:

https://www.streetsilhouettes.com/home/2018/11/27/to-big-to-fail-the-canon-rf-50mm-f/12l

Yes I did see it, thank you.

I agree that for night time low light shallow depth of field shots - "sharpness is a bourgeois concept" - and I don't care too much about resolving power.

I would love to see tests related resistance to flaring and such. I'm glad lens reviewers have started including this - it seemed once upon a time nobody considered such issues.

My takeaway is that - the 50mm f/1.2 EF is definitely worth at least half the price of the RF counterpart. The slight increase in sharpness wide open isn't something I noticed scrolling through the photos unless I zoomed in.

All of the cameras produced the appropriate amount of bokehballs and only the most picky of lens enthusiasts would have something to complain about in any of those photos.

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