We went to London today for business and pleasure. The business part was boring so I'll spare you the details in that department.
I had the pleasure of meeting Schmoelzel today at his Tea Haus; a very nice spot I might add. Need I say that he was very nice? Probably not.
Out came the prime backpack and I was allowed to touch the holy lens collection. I quickly strapped the 85L on my XT and took some shots. I was pleasantly surprised with the focusing speed... sure, it took a while to go from short to long, but the fine tune focus wasn't painful at all. Also, it wasn't as heavy or as long as I expected on the 1.6 crop. Very nice lens!
So I snapped some 85L shots then thought I should shoot some 24-105L shots in the same spot for comparison. Lets just say that F4 can't compare (duh). I was shooting 1.2 and 2.2 at ISO 100 with the 85L and easily got over 1/100s. 1/160 lit up several times.
With my 24-105 I had to fight to handhold and ended up boosting my ISO to 800 just to get 1/40 or 1/60 ish.
That was a mistake. I ended up putting my camera down, talking for a bit, then I forgot my ISO was cranked.
I ended up taking some 135L and some more 85L shots after that... at ISO 800. DAMN!!
They still turned out nice though. What a lens!
Here are some samples. I only got about 50 shots off (with all lenses) since I was shooting RAW on a 512MB card so I didn't have much to pick through.
The first shot is in ISO 100... the other 2 were 800 
Meet my 10mo old son Tyler.
Thanks Michael, you're too kind. I appreciate it.
Richard (H)
| Canon 5DII
| Fujifilm Finepix F30
