Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II Slide Show
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
This is just an experiment. I just built a slide show of my photographs up on flickr with the tag “Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM” with flickrSLiDR. It took all of 30 seconds.
Wow.
Damn, that is awesome! I’m away from the Mac for a day and all hell breaks loose!
Jon, it is awesome and it’s got lots of wonderful uses. I plan to use it quite a bit actually.
Very nice! I love the results from that lense!!! Great photos.
Thanks Diana, it’s an amazing lens. Very versatile although most people use it for wide open, shallow depth of field work mostly. I like it for many things.
I wish the 50mm f/1.2 was a better lens, that would be my choice over this one but alas, this is the better of the two. Neither is perfect but this one is closer. Very, very, very expensive. Ugh.
Wow, that’s great to see, Richard. Very cool. I can’t wait to try it myself.
It’s easy Gary, you can make a slide show in less than a minute. Amazing.
Utterly fab.
LJ: Fab is me. Well, I know where to find fab and use it. Yeah.
The separation due to the narrow depth of field really is striking in some of the photo’s.
Have you ever done a comprehensive comparison with its 85mm f/1.8 cousin ?
I was just curious how much of a difference there is in the depth of field, since there’s an exponential difference in price.
I like the 85mm length for portrait work as well, vs. the 50mm.
In the past I have used a 200mm lens, albeit with a slower aperture, to attempt a means to an end to narrow the depth of field. It’s not too bad of an alternative if you have the space to work with.
Paul: I agree, the possibility for subject isolation when shooting these very fast lenses is great. However, so is the liability for lack of focus. Shooting wide open at f/1.2 relatively close to a subject is very tricky and what complicates it is this particular lens’s very slow autofocus. This is a tough lens to use.
And, the minimum focus distance is 3 feet where the 50mm f/1.2 is about 1.5 feet. Frankly, I find it hard to get this lens to work right with anything closer than 5 feet which means that shooting at a dinner table is tough.
I had used a 50mm f/1.4 on my 20D and it was fine and somehow I didn’t carry using that lens over to my transition to full frame and the 5D. I just bought the very inexpensive 50mm f/1.8 to play with and see what I think of 50mm as an angle of view and I have to say I have a new love for it. This makes me re-consider the 50mm f/1.2 lens. It’s less highly reviewed than this one but it’s lighter, cheaper (still expensive) and will focus at closer range. And, it makes bokeh and color much like all of these high end primes: 35L, 85L, 135L.
I use my 135mm f/2 and 300mm f/4 for lots of shallow depth of field work. The 300 can be stopped down to f/11 and still produce amazing blur in tight spaces. One doesn’t need these super fast lenses to make nice background blur. That’s for sure.
Anyway, that’s my thinking…
I’m actually a huge fan of Pictobrowser. It’s a little bit different in functionality, but I adore the interface and design. We are going to use this to roll out some photo galleries on our website and it looks better/is more easy to use than the gallery our designer made for us!
Wow Michaela, it looks great. I’ll try one of those next… Thanks.