Canon EF 35mm f/1.4 L USM

Thank you guys, don't want to 'steal' this forum, but don't know what to do. As I understand, there's no difference between one 35mm-lens and another (for instance sigma 30 1.4)? Bokeh is determined by the focal length and not by lens construction?
I'm jealous of your pictures! Last example, f2.0, focus on black house on the left, sharp 'til the right edge. Too bad I deleted all the other pictures because I thought they weren't useful.

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PS sorry Poppie guy just missed your reply while I was writing my own. Think you're right, subject must be < 1 metre (3 feet) away, have to admit it disappoints me a little...
Thanks.

Hey Speedster, where in Seattle are the Kubota Gardens, never heard of them either!

I was wondering the same thing....so...

The Kubota Garden is located at Renton Avenue S. and 55th Avenue South in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of South Seattle.

On I-5, leave the freeway at Pacific Highway South/East Marginal Way, Exit 158
Turn left toward Martin Luther King, Jr. Way; continue up the hill on Ryan Way
Turn left on 51st Avenue South
Turn right on Renton Avenue South
Turn right on 55th Avenue South to parking lot

(South end, almost Renton)

yeah its a big place...about 3x the size of the arboretum japanese gardens....Its probably really amazing in the spring.

this is the "brochure shot" for Kubota

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poppie guy wrote in post #6192644
In order to get the kind of bokeh other posters here are showing, I think you will need to be much closer to the object you are focusing on.

^^^ read this again

35/1.4 FTW!

+1 for poppie's response

poppie guy wrote in post #6192644
In order to get the kind of bokeh other posters here are showing, I think you will need to be much closer to the object you are focusing on.

Bingo!

DoF is not just dependent on your lens' maximum aperture. Obviously focal length also changes things, but it is also affected by camera-to-subject and subject-to-background distances. Even sensor/film size, but I digress...

Pekka wrote in post #6168172

This is great.

i fly like paper.

I'm torn between this lens and the 85L, though I do have the lesser 85...
Yum.

EOSBoy wrote in post #6199287
I'm torn between this lens and the 85L, though I do have the lesser 85...
Yum.

Get both. They are a perfect combo

Starting to like this lens, although it's different from what i thought it would be, it's still nice!
(Thanks for your responses about the bokeh. You have to get closer to the subject than I hoped (was hoping it would work with city shots), but I'm spoiled too much with my tele's...)
GreatDivorce, second & third picture are super!

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Two more.

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