Tom Holly

The “dreaded display notch” eh?

Canon sensors are so primitive that the resulting files can be easily copied to the memory card without crashing it.

You wouldn’t know the way people go on about it.

First of all, it’s called BOKEH. That’s a special sounding word because bokeh is special. And second of all, this lens is officially known as the Bokeh Master, that means it’s the best at bokeh, ie...

Down with bokeh!

I bought a new desktop this year. Haven’t had one in 7 years.

iPad plus desktop is good combo.

Too bad GIMP still feels like beta software.

A convenient feature for many, but a bit of a pain with slide film in automatic cameras with no means to set exposure manually.

I guess this fixes the overheating when writing faults.

I’ve had the AF die on 50 1.4 and had the 50 1.8 II fall apart

I have a 50 stm. I find it very high quality little lens. Much better than 50 1.8. it doesn’t surprise me it’s consistently built.

It’s not bad, but at present it makes too many mistakes, eg her scarf being heavily blurred.

Be nicer to have a smoother transition too, rather than sharp face on blurry background. Hair 1 is...

Sorry, i meant 35mm format not 35mm focal length, which as you say is about 44mm diagonal. So how come not a ~44mm normal lens if it’s easiest to match the diagonal

Ok, thanks. Starting to understand now. I didn’t realise it was so much simpler than the others. If FL=sensor diagonal size makes it easiest, how come the basic 35mm lens isn’t a tad smaller than 50mm?

So it’s primarily marketing? Not because a decent 50 can be made cheaper than others?

Ok, so why can't they make a similarly cheap lens in other focal length?

The 15-85 is a great all round lens. The 18-135 STM and Nano are great too. You should consider a fast prime, e.g. 50 1.8 STM. extremely sharp, and you can play around with selective focus.

FF lens like 16-35 f4 IS produces nicer images than a crop equivalent such as 10-18 EFS. Get the 16-35 F4 IS over the 17-40. It's better.

Why are these so cheap compared to say the 28 f1.8, 35  f2 or 85 f1.8? Why can they make them so cheap?

Tamras, I get it. Focal length is equivalent, aperture is actual, because a 24-75 f1.7-f2.8 sound real good. Marketing....