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EF100mm f/2

Started Aug 23, 2019 | User reviews
marcdewit Junior Member • Posts: 43
EF100mm f/2
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My best Canon lens , fantastic !

sharp , did I say sharp ? hell yes , right at 2.0

very nice bokeh

superfast focussing

at any of my bodies , 80D , 5Dmkiii and eos RP

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Canon EF 100mm f/2.0 USM
Telephoto prime lens • Canon EF • 2518A003
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Canon EF 100mm f/2.0 USM Canon EOS 80D
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Phillip Lynch
Phillip Lynch Contributing Member • Posts: 549
Re: EF100mm f/2
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Didn't you know your not suppose to talk about that lens.

GammyKnee Contributing Member • Posts: 985
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Big fan of mine too. For some reason I just prefer 100mm to the seemingly more popular 85mm focal length, but in fairness I've never shot with the 85 f/1.2L. Regardless the 100 f/2 is certainly one of Canon's under-appreciated lenses.

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Jura S Senior Member • Posts: 1,980
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Phillip Lynch wrote:

Didn't you know your not suppose to talk about that lens.

... of course we can.

This an approximation of some problems 100/2.0 is prone to exhibit.

40 year old East German lens shows more glow and less CA.

gipper51 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,904
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GammyKnee wrote:

Big fan of mine too. For some reason I just prefer 100mm to the seemingly more popular 85mm focal length, but in fairness I've never shot with the 85 f/1.2L. Regardless the 100 f/2 is certainly one of Canon's under-appreciated lenses.

Funny you say that, as I actually have the 100/2 and 85/1.8 right now and deciding which one to keep.  Got both used off a popular photo forum for cheap.  Both are darn good.

I'm kinda leaning toward the 85 at the moment, as I like it as a 135 equivalent on my 7D2.  The 100 is a bit long on the crop body for portraits.

But that opinion could certainly change the next time I shoot with the 100.  First world problems...

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Ashley Pomeroy
Ashley Pomeroy Regular Member • Posts: 197
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I have one as well. In fact the reason I bought it was because there's very little about it on the internet.

It's good but it feels redundant - sandwiched between the 85mm f/1.8, 100mm f/2.8 Macro and at a higher price point the 135mm f/2. If you were only going to buy one 100mm lens the f/2.8 Macro is the obvious choice because it covers all the bases. I imagine at some point Canon will replace it with an optically superior image stabilised variant that costs three times as much.

Wide open it has a lot of CA, and there's a soft glow, but at least in the middle that can be Photoshopped away:

The full frame at f/2 on a 5D MkII

The middle without Photoshop

The middle with Photoshop

Also the bokeh's nice:

And on a full-frame body it's just wide enough to be used as a walk-everywhere lens:

The mixture of telephoto compression and wide aperture approaches the medium format look - it's a bit like the 180mm f/4.5 on a Mamiya TLR but with the top and bottom chopped off - although the image quality isn't quite good enough, but still very good.

Jura S Senior Member • Posts: 1,980
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Ashley Pomeroy wrote:

Wide open it has a lot of CA, and there's a soft glow, but at least in the middle that can be Photoshopped away.

Why are you posting thumbnails.

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