Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L USM - The Keg

SeattleSpeedster wrote in post #10351576
a few from the side of the road today....literally people were stopped at the light staring at me bent over

Superb Mike

droopy1592 > very very nice image, all goes well together, that one will make a very nice frame ! model must be very happy !

..so on a wander round the garden thought this would look nice

Shot at F8 with a 85mm F1.2L II

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Collin85 wrote in post #10347492
Love this lens. Some photos shot yesterday for a university brochure:

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I really like this photo. Any idea what f-stop you shot it at? I'm guessing not 1.2.

Hmm, this lens has worked great for me so far,
but once I tried to shoot full body shots @ 1.2 there seems
to be 0% success rate in terms of AF...

Never happens when I shoot head or torso,
but only when I move far enough.

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Would this be safe to say its a case of front focusing?
This is @ 1.2 on tripod and using some bright tungstens.
Subject distance was 12.8 feet

Left side is Oneshot AF on the center of the nose, has a flash
mounted on the camera for AF assist but it never lit so I'd assume
there's enough light for focus. Notice how the focus is on the foot.

Right side is manual.

phamster wrote in post #10348218
@ Collin.. good work with the ambient

Cheers Pham... I was actually banished from using flashes (on or off-camera).

mitchman wrote in post #10353312
I really like this photo. Any idea what f-stop you shot it at? I'm guessing not 1.2.

Cheers Mitch, it was shot at 1.2..

kuwazome wrote in post #10356728
Hmm, this lens has worked great for me so far,
but once I tried to shoot full body shots @ 1.2 there seems
to be 0% success rate in terms of AF...

Never happens when I shoot head or torso,
but only when I move far enough.

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Would this be safe to say its a case of front focusing?
This is @ 1.2 on tripod and using some bright tungstens.
Subject distance was 12.8 feet

Left side is Oneshot AF on the center of the nose, has a flash
mounted on the camera for AF assist but it never lit so I'd assume
there's enough light for focus. Notice how the focus is on the foot.

Right side is manual.

That really isn't the greatest shot to test for front/back focusing. You should try the focus sheet or the AA batteries lineup (i.e. something where the list of reference posts is continuous both in front and behind your point of focus - what you posted there is semi-helpful for testing back-focus but less so for front).

Really? Thanks for sharing. I'm really thinking about purchasing this lens! Beautiful shot.

mitchman wrote in post #10356963
Really? Thanks for sharing. I'm really thinking about purchasing this lens! Beautiful shot.

I don't think you'd regret it one bit! There's really something magical about the images which come out of this lens.. especially at 1.2. Ages ago I compared 1.2 vs 1.4, and there's just something special about the 1.2 images. The combination of the natural vignette; ultra-low Dof and beautiful bokeh; and this special "pop" which I noticed (that wasn't as apparent at 1.4) really makes this lens something special to shoot with wide-open. There are of course, downsides. It's heavy, bulky and the AF is slow. But once you see what the lens is capable of, you won't be looking back.

Thanks Collin. With such a shallow DOF AND slow AF, it sounds like getting a photo in focus can be a challenge? Or is the AF not as bad as I'm thinking?

When I first got this lens and my wide open shots were off...it was usually either user error or user error and slow shutter speed

wow... amazing pictures guys...

one of these crazy days, this lens is going to hurt my wallet...
hahaha

last weekend

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SeattleSpeedster wrote in post #10359356
last weekend

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Wow. Fantastic shot.

I have posted this in color before, but I think this B&W works better...shot at F1.2

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daft_togger wrote in post #10360796
I have posted this in color before, but I think this B&W works better...shot at F1.2

i think it'd be better if you gave it more space around the edges. for some reason, the size of the image along with how tight of a crop it is makes me uncomfortable.