Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L...

Yeah, and tomorrow we are jumping off the Geo. Washington Bridge!!!!

I think you are so very wrong. Confused too. We all know that the 50 1.8 takes as good pictures as the 50 1.4. It never misses focus, has FTMF, USM and the bokeh is some of the best I have ever seen.

From a strict DOF control point, the 50 1.2 will be BETTER than the 1.4. More control. As an artist, that is important to me. Time will prove the worth of this new lens from canon.

I'm sure the new 50mm EF lineup won't be any different than the old FD lineup...

The 1.8's are great entry-level lenses. Not expensive (used to come on every body) and very sharp. The 1.4's were the "reference lens" for color and sharpness, the best 50mm version Canon made. Then you had the 1.2 and 1.2L - and while they were brighter (one having aspherical elements and thus an L), they suffered on sharpness wide open.

So yeah, you get the 1.2 - but it's just not as sharp wide open as either the 1.4 or 1.8.

This is true on most lenses. There's a sweet spot in the design and it's not necessarily the brightest version. You usually have to use exotic elements and a more complicated design to get around distortion, flare, etc. which hurts image quality.

That all being said, I see the 1.2L being somewhat popular, but the 1.4 isn't going anywhere.

I would be supremely let down if the 1.2 wasn't as sharp wide open as the 1.4, because the few 1.4's that I've owned were basically crap at 1.4.

I was not impressed with mine at 1.4 either. I found myself shooting at 2.0 and having decent results... But I sold the lens because I was just not using it enough...

The 1.4 has no contrast. I can't wait for the L! Like I said for indoor events like Christmas, this is going to be the altimate lens I think especially on a full frame

I will be definately getting this lens. I had an older Nikkor 55 noct 1.2 and i can tell you that i regret selling it. The bokeh was unbelievable. I just recently got the Nikkor 85 f/1.4 AF lens and now i know what it must be like to have the EF 85mm f/1.2... whew! what a beauty.

This may help - http://www.luminous-landscape.com …cameras/rebel%2​0xti.shtml

At the bottom it has small review of 50mm

Big WIll wrote:
This may help - http://www.luminous-landscape.com …cameras/rebel%2​0xti.shtml

At the bottom it has small review of 50mm

That lens looks comical on an XTi. Would probably look more at home on a 1D.

Big WIll wrote:
This may help - http://www.luminous-landscape.com …cameras/rebel%2​0xti.shtml

At the bottom it has small review of 50mm

He shot the test shot at f/4.0. Probably could have just used a nifty 50 for that sample image!