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Struggling between RF USM and STM lineup as an amateur

Started 3 weeks ago | Questions thread
thunder storm Forum Pro • Posts: 10,139
Re: Struggling between RF USM and STM lineup as an amateur

sercheese wrote:

What is also interesting, my wife said that she likes a little blurred photos, but just a bit. So that you have a light 3d effect, but you still see everything in the background. So maybe she wouldn't really like the blurred background from RF 50mm F1.2

There are more factors in play than just the aperture. There's also the 1. distance between the camera and the subject, 2. the distance between the subject and the background, and 3. a longer focal length magnifies the blur in the background so it seams more blurry.

With 70mm & f/2.8 you can do a lot to get blur by managing 1 and 2.

For environmental full body shots and a lot of trees and branches in the background f/1.2 can be is nice, but those beautiful lakes and mountains being so far away don't need to be blurred so much, as the distance between this and the subject is huge and this as a background isn't busy or distracting at all.

This is when I use f/1.2

As you see, to Alastairs point, at the age of 10 years or so - after a some years (3-8) with huge AF requirements - the AF requirements can get less demanding, so the Canon RF 50mm f/1.2 and even the RF 85mm f/2.0 IS stm would have done the job here.

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