Rating: 10 out of 10
Physics? Try magic. This lens is, quite simply, the best glass I’ve ever had the pleasure to use. Adjectives like “stellar,” “remarkable,” and “extraordinary” don’t do it justice. It’s that good. It’s just a shame this quintessential Canon glass occupies such an awkward focal length because it possesses the preternatural ability to absorb light where there is none. Wide open, it’ll render a sharp, almost 3–dimensional look to any subject in its field of vision.
Its uncanny capacity to paint contrasty, saturated images in the dark makes it an ideal concert lens and, if you’ve got enough room to take a few steps backward, it’ll deliver portraits gorgeous enough to hang in the National Gallery. This lens might just be supernatural.
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Everyone gives this lens a rave so maybe i should approach this terrific lens from a shooting POV.
Shooting wide open at f2at 135 gives your pictures a distinct quality you would never get from zooms, there isn’t a zoom at this focal length that is this speed either. A few primes come close but they’re nowhere near as sharp wide open.
the af is fast and very accurate and the lens has a great feel on a 20d/5d/10d body even wo the battery grip of the cameras.
Close up magnification of .19x to.21 therabouts is a nice bonus of this lens, letting you get closer wo being too in your face for tight headshots.
I always felt that photographers usually have a sweet spot when shooting certain things like some portrait photographers like the distance the 85mm gives them when approaching a subject, turns out I’m liking the 135 focal length quite a bit for headshots and the 85 for torso and head shots.
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