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Review on Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens, black by Stanislaw Szudek ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

I am delighted, the product is really worthy.

It’s been a week since I bought this lens, while I’m just getting used to its features and character. I decided to write a review based on first impressions, but in general, they are positive. An analogue in the face of the Canon EF 50 mm F1.8, it wins in everything, the one against its background is noisy, slow, dark, dull, thecomlors are not bright, thecomntrast is worse, and there are twice as many chromatic aberrations, and sharp, it becomes starting from aperture 4, whichcommpletely kills the entire aperture. This lens is more perfect, the picture is softer and more pleasant, the sound is quieter, focusing is many times more accurate and faster, there are fewer chromaticities, the result is better, and it is much brighter. Despite all the disadvantages that I have listed, the lens is good, you can take good pictures with it already at aperture F1.8 - F2, it is good as a portrait lens, you can shoot macro. Its disadvantage, in the form of soap, can be turned into a plus, and straight hands and Photoshop or Lightroom will allow you to remove chromatic aberrations and vignetting, well, you rarely pay attention to nuts, since the drawing is so good that you don’t need more. In talented hands, he will reveal his full potential. In my arsenal I have: Canon EF 24-105mm IS 4L, Helios 44-4, 50 mm F2, Jupiter 37A ,135 mm F3.5 Industar 50-2, 50mm F3.5 Now, Canon 50 mm 1.4 USM Previously, before L-ki, there was a whale, Canon EF-S 18-135 IS F / 3.5-5.6 There is something tocommpare. I like manual, Soviet lenses, they have a beautiful, expensive pattern, they are fast, reliable, sharp, they have few chromatic aberrations. But, they are manual and they have a very large stroke of the focus ring and an incredibly shallow depth of field, half a centimeter, and a maximum of one and a half centimeters, and while you aim, you will break your eyes, tire the model, and maybe the season will change. They are very capricious, they catch hares and they have a changeable character of chromatic aberrations, very changeable. Therefore, I decided to buy with autofocus. For those who choose, I advise, you will be satisfied with the result. And here is an album withcommparative examples:

Pros
  • -Fast autofocus. - Lightweight and compact -Fix -Light, even very light, allows you to work in the evening with good exposure. -Very sharp starting at F2.2 - Sharp from aperture F1.8 - F2 -Good contrast and color reproduction. -Beautiful bokeh, the background blurs into the trash. -Full compliance, price-quality.
Cons
  • -It often misses, and not to say that it would be strong, sometimes by a centimeter, but with its small depth of field, it is very noticeable. (It seems to me that the problem is that I have an entry-level DSLR, this focus is not observed on older models. By the way, the Canon EOS 650D camera) - An incredible amount of Chromatic Abberrations (CA), on a fully open aperture, the whole spectrum of CA shines and lilac and green and yellow and red strokes, and in such a thick, serious layer throughout the light office. -Catches hares, he needs a hood =) -In bokeh, it tightens the nuts as soon as you start to press the aperture and in the trailer, this is normal for all fast lenses, usually after 1-3 values, but this one produces nuts starting from F1.6. - Strongly lathers on an open aperture, sometimes it decorates the picture, as if putting a veil on it, but sometimes it's just a spoiled frame. And then you have to choose between soap mixed with chromatic aberrations and nuts, but I think talent will always come out =) - Strong vignetting.