Have Purchased My Dream Lens

[Andy M]

Canon's 85mm f1.2 mkII



First photo with it:



Bokehlicious

More info here: www.dpreview.com/news/0602/06022112canonef85f12l.asp
and here: www.warehouseexpress.com/photo/lenstech/canon/85f12lusmII.html

[srider]

Ooh, nice

[miniman]

Great shot. But I'd hope so for £1500!!

[Andy M]

Sssshhhh!!!

My girlfriend thinks it was only £200

And anyway, I didn't pay £1,500

[poah]

its front focusing. got the hand not the face

[Andy M]

lol!

Have thrown it out of the window I'm so disgusted by its front focussing.

[matthew_h]

Bloody hell Andy, nicely done

Look forward to seeing more pretty pictures

[Andy M]

One more pic. I wanted to test the sharpness:

[UKBob]

Ohh, very nice. It would make a good stock photo

Sorry to ask what is probably obvious to others, but you do have an aperture range, and are not just limited to the f1.2, right?

[Andy M]

The second photo is shot at f2

[graham@reading]

You got your Flickr Moo cards then

That should make a cracking portrait lens on all the various sensor sizes

[Andy M]

graham@reading said:

You got your Flickr Moo cards then

Yeah, did you get some?

If so, what do you think?

Mine are a bit dark to be honest - my monitor possibly needs calibrating. How do the photo's above look on your monitor?

[UKBob]

Andy M said:

How do the photo's above look on your monitor?

Moody, but generally suitable for stock purposes.

[Andy M]

UKBob said:

Moody, but generally suitable for stock purposes.

From what I've seen here, anything is suitable for stock?!

[fergusd]

Go on then, post a full res link to the head thing - like the colours . . . ;-)

Speaking of lenzes I was given a wee shottie of a monster lens this week, Nikon 300 f2.8 prime + lots of acronyms, from the limited play I have had, it's exceedingly heavy, sharp, shallow DOF, fast focusing (really quite stunning actually), cool carbonfibre lenshood (bling but anything to shave a few Kg off), large front element and expensive . . . hopefully I'll have a good chance to play with it in anger before it disappears to whence it came . . .

Fd

[Andy M]

fergusd said:

Go on then, post a full res link to the head thing - like the colours . . . ;-)

Speaking of lenzes I was given a wee shottie of a monster lens this week, Nikon 300 f2.8 prime + lots of acronyms, from the limited play I have had, it's exceedingly heavy, sharp, shallow DOF, fast focusing (really quite stunning actually), cool carbonfibre lenshood (bling but anything to shave a few Kg off), large front element and expensive . . . hopefully I'll have a good chance to play with it in anger before it disappears to whence it came . . .

Fd

'The Head Thing' I hope there are no Buddhist's about...

I'll try to remember to upload a larger version tomorrow, it's not on this computer.

Canon's 300 f2.8 is supposedly a cracker as well, but is mucho ££££. I'm a wide angle man myself, but I wouldn't mind having a go of one

[Andy M]

The largest I have on the interweb:

[UKBob]

Andy M said:

The largest I have on the interweb:

Egads! An african woman on orange I thought you'd fixed your Mrs up with a glowing attachment for a bedroom toy.

[Andy M]

UKBob said:

Egads! An african woman on orange I thought you'd fixed your Mrs up with a glowing attachment for a bedroom toy.

Night Bob

[UKBob]

Andy M said:

UKBob said:

Egads! An african woman on orange I thought you'd fixed your Mrs up with a glowing attachment for a bedroom toy.

Night Bob

I shall sleep all the better, after bearing witness to the enlargement, thanks.