Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM

Great shot Aztech. The lighting is something else!!!

Hatch

Aztech, did you get a new monitor?

poppie guy wrote in post #6497151
Aztech, did you get a new monitor?

Nope I send back the "better" one and Im back to my old monitor..

TheAztech wrote in post #6497244
Nope I send back the "better" one and Im back to my old monitor..

skin tones are looking like they used to look.

poppie guy wrote in post #6497277
skin tones are looking like they used to look.

Not there yet.....I moved everything to my Macbook Pro and My actions are not working properly....:o

Nice Lighting! Did you trim parts of her neck? Cause it looks really straight to me! or maybe she got a perfect neck !

TheAztech wrote in post #6496890

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Very nice, very, very nice!

This is not in my faves...but I love the IQ of the 135

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Aztec you were so right about this lens at 4.5-5.6 on faces, it's incredible and it's already really sharp wide open. But at 4.5 5.6- it still has beautifull depth of field fall off yet renders a face shot perfectly, I am so in love with this lens.

L is for lousy......

Basically, the lens was bought new in January 2008 and it has never delivered great photographs. At first I thought it was me, then I thought it was my 350D, so I upgraded to a 40D. Still the results were well below expectations, and poor in comparison to my 50mm f/1.4 (a non-L series lens) and my Sigma 10-20mm lens.

A friend then tested the lens on a tripod with a tape measure stretched out in front. The results showed the lens, whilst showing that it was focused on the red 80cm mark, you can see from the image that the 80cm mark is out of focus and the DOF is from 73 to 78cm.

So I sent the lens off to Canon and got it back yesterday, 5 and a half weeks later. I will test it tonight.

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Shouldn't you have tested the lens before upgrading the body? It wasn't doing this with all of your lenses, was it?

Guess I should of tested the lens before upgrading, but, being a novice, I presumed I was the problem. After all, I'd just spent a fortune on an L series lens. I guess Canon could of tested the lens before they sold it to me!

As I mentioned the images taken with the 50mm and 10-20mm are way better than the 135mm.

wa_tony wrote in post #6504935
Guess I should of tested the lens before upgrading, but, being a novice, I presumed I was the problem. After all, I'd just spent a fortune on an L series lens. I guess Canon could of tested the lens before they sold it to me!

As I mentioned the images taken with the 50mm and 10-20mm are way better than the 135mm.

Sorry to hear about the issue with ur lens Tony. Unfortunately these things can happen time to time with any products.
Hope the lens is sorted soon and you're out and getting steller shots. Some really amazing examples in this thread which makes me want to consider getting this lens some day.

wa_tony wrote in post #6504935
Guess I should of tested the lens before upgrading, but, being a novice, I presumed I was the problem. After all, I'd just spent a fortune on an L series lens. I guess Canon could of tested the lens before they sold it to me!

As I mentioned the images taken with the 50mm and 10-20mm are way better than the 135mm.

Yeah, it does happen. I have just spent £130 on a £700 lens to get it focusing correctly, like you I thought it was my body and bought another to no avail. I'll know better next time.

All at f/2, all handheld, and all with the complete Kenko tubes attached (12/20/36).

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