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

saltydogstudios wrote:

Dexter Jackson wrote:

saltydogstudios wrote:

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.

Another important question is where is your work viewed? Are you making prints larger than 24x36 where you are likely to see the benefits of the better quality L glass? Increasingly, more peoples work is being viewed on smartphones and tablets where those slight advantages become irrelevant.

Ive sat and stared at photos from my RP with a rented $2700 RF 85 f/1.2 and my $300 EF 85 f/1.8 I tested both in studio and outdoors in natural light. I can see a definite difference zoomed in 100% on my 27 inch 5k monitor but they become less apparent fit to screen and then even less apparent to not noticeable on my iPad and iPhone, where most people are viewing my work these days.

This series (not mine) was taken with the 85mm f/1.2 wide open.

http://gregwilliamsarchive.com/photos/fashion/subway/

None of the photos are in focus.

Nobody would notice unless they pixel pepped.

I decided at some point that my goal would be to own the "legendary" lenses at each focal length.

The Canon 85mm f/1.2

The Nikon 105mm f/2.5 Sonnar (which took the most famous photo in the world)

And so on.

I now own both - though the Canon is FD not EF mount because it needed manual controls to be adapted to non Canon bodies (and it was cheaper).

Why? Because why not, it's a nice goal, and those lenses are most likely to keep their value.

And also because their resale value is likely to stay higher than cheap lenses - so they're partly collectors items as well.