Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM (II)

A different perspective

Had this lens on while walking in the woods this morning:

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Another one of my "not so" little girl…

Loving this lens so far

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Love this KseB. Great shot!

^^^ I agree. Great shot KseB.

xpfloyd wrote in post #17257748
Thanks Sandra

Thanks Jeff, the plan at the moment is to keep the sony and the zeiss 55. sony/zeiss combo for when I want to take a camera but dont want the bulk. Sony+canon lenses for landscape stuff. Will see how that plan unfolds. What I do know is the 5DIII is not going anywhere!

Really intrigued with your choice of cameras xpfloyd and the move from Fuji. What went wrong with the Fuji. I own the 5D MKIII and 85mm 1.8 combo which I am happy with for images of my kids. I just haven't tried the mirrorless thing yet and wonder if I am missing something re image quality. I know of heaps of people raving over the X-T1 which i see that you owned. Great images by the way with your new combo, welcome back to Canon.

Jasonfire124 wrote in post #17265812
Really intrigued with your choice of cameras xpfloyd and the move from Fuji. What went wrong with the Fuji. I own the 5D MKIII and 85mm 1.8 combo which I am happy with for images of my kids. I just haven't tried the mirrorless thing yet and wonder if I am missing something re image quality. I know of heaps of people raving over the X-T1 which i see that you owned. Great images by the way with your new combo, welcome back to Canon.

Hi Jason, sorry I meant to reply to you on flickr and then got side tracked and forgot until I saw this. I loved the XT1 size and controls and loved the lenses. I thought I had actually found the perfect small set up. But for me lightroom doesnt handle the RAW conversion well of the Fuji Xtrans files. If you try and sharpen the RAW at all the IQ degrades rapidly IMO. Even boosting exposure in post slightly was leading to problems for me. I found it impossible to get the RAW files processed to look as sharp as the camera jpegs. Im a self confessed pixel peeper though but when I zoom to 100% on an image I want it tack sharp at the point of focus, not mush. Loads of people seem to love the XT1 sensor though and get on just fine with it but in the end it was frustrating the hell out me so I sold it all. If you google fuji watercolour effect you will find loads of threads online with people having similar issues to me though. Not so many on POTN fuji thread though.

I bought the Sony A7R just before I sold the fuji stuff. If Sony had brought out more fast primes I probably wouldnt have bought a 5D3 and went all Sony but they havent so I found myself using Canon lenses on the Sony. I quickly discovered that at apetures between 1.4 and 2.0 I cant manually focus fast enough to catch my son so thats why I bought a 5D3 (Which I am absolutely loving!). The sony has the best IQ but the 5D3 has the better AF system and has very good IQ too as you know. The A7R is the perfect body for landscapes though and stuff that doesnt move too quick. Its fine for posed portraits with canon lenses too. Its just quick kids that are a challenge

Anyway sorry for the long winded answer but thats been my journey over the last 11 months.

Wine trees

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xpfloyd wrote in post #17268050
Hi Jason, sorry I meant to reply to you on flickr and then got side tracked and forgot until I saw this. I loved the XT1 size and controls and loved the lenses. I thought I had actually found the perfect small set up. But for me lightroom doesnt handle the RAW conversion well of the Fuji Xtrans files. If you try and sharpen the RAW at all the IQ degrades rapidly IMO. Even boosting exposure in post slightly was leading to problems for me. I found it impossible to get the RAW files processed to look as sharp as the camera jpegs. Im a self confessed pixel peeper though but when I zoom to 100% on an image I want it tack sharp at the point of focus, not mush. Loads of people seem to love the XT1 sensor though and get on just fine with it but in the end it was frustrating the hell out me so I sold it all. If you google fuji watercolour effect you will find loads of threads online with people having similar issues to me though. Not so many on POTN fuji thread though.

I bought the Sony A7R just before I sold the fuji stuff. If Sony had brought out more fast primes I probably wouldnt have bought a 5D3 and went all Fuji but they havent so I found myself using Canon lenses on the Sony. I quickly discovered that at apetures between 1.4 and 2.0 I cant manually focus fast enough to catch my son so thats why I bought a 5D3 (Which I am absolutely loving!). The sony has the best IQ but the 5D3 has the better AF system and has very good IQ too as you know. The A7R is the perfect body for landscapes though and stuff that doesnt move too quick. Its fine for posed portraits with canon lenses too. Its just quick kids that are a challenge

Anyway sorry for the long winded answer but thats been my journey over the last 11 months.

Wow xpfloyd what a cracking, succint and honest response, just what I was looking for, you are a top man and should be writing for a magazine. I had worried about Fuji's with Lightroom RAW conversions but see from searching the web that Capture One and Irident copes with this much better, in fact I have seen some shockingly vast differences between the others and Lightroom but that is an extra cost added to the purchase of Fuji and their lenses. I too am a pixel peeper and am always striving for ultimate sharpness. It is probably just my technique but I can still take photos with the 5D and 85mm 1.8 and it is still hit and miss at times. I have established that using off camera flash has given me a vast improvement in the number of keepers and lifts portraits to another level....although I know that flash work is not for some, especially amateurs like myself.

I have thought about Sony but it is a lot of money and outlay for another camera, even the adapters are not cheap for the Canon lenses, I take it you use the metabones version ?? Thanks again for taking time to respond to me, you have a cracking website with some amazing landscape images.

Sorry all for jumping in on an 85mm 1.8 thread. I will post a couple soon just once I have found out how to attach an image....still have no luck with this !!!

I just realised I wrote "I would have went all fuji" in the second paragraph. That was meant to say Sony. I tried photoninja and capture 1 and although they handled them better it just wasnt the way I wanted. Also I have been using lightroom for so long and everything is cataloged I really didnt want the switch. For a while I was editing externally then importing to lightroom catalog but it was a PITA. I use a cheap chinese brand adapter. It says "Kaavie" but the Viltrox model is the same compay I believe. Cost me £70 and gives me AF (slow), IS, exif etc. I seriously dont understand why anyone would buy a metabones adaptor for £400 but everyone seems to. With regards to flash I would say the majority of my best posed shots of my son indoors are with off camera flash, normally bounced.

Thanks for the compliment and sorry everyone for clogging up the 85mm thread with words

keysolutns wrote in post #17264870
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Love this KseB. Great shot!

jrscls wrote in post #17264994
^^^ I agree. Great shot KseB.

спасибо!

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