Review on Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens, black by Keisuke Shimizu ᠌

Name: Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens, black
Item: Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens, black
Rating: 2

April 13, 2023

No joy in buying the product, it's not good.

If compared with the EF 24-70 ƒ / 2.8L II USM, then if both are at 50mm and at ƒ / 2.8 (which is open for zoom!), Half-tone merges terribly in XA, in sharpness in general across the field, in autofocus, and in general throughout!
It’s worth taking it now only if you like fixes, you need exactly fifty kopecks, high aperture and autofocus.
I won’t write about bokeh, colors and pattern in minuses, nor in pluses. Someone really likes it, but personally I consider such people to have never seen truly artistic lenses, which are usually non-autofocus. The background washes strongly, the colors convey well, there is a drawing, but I'm not thrilled.
So, I do not recommend this lens! EF 24-70 II and 70-200 II are not much more expensive, but if you don’t need a fix, they will win in everything, and 70-200 also with a good stub, which can compensate for the two and a half stop difference for some ( f/1.2 - f/2.8).
: XA are simply terrible not only for a lens of this class, but also for lenses in general, including at ƒ / 2.8. I was shocked for such money.

ate: for 2022, the lens is obsolete!
Autofocus, HA and sharpness by modern standards are even lower than the baseboard, which was already bad in 2022, when the review was written.
If you need autofocus on EOS, choose among 1.4 half-lengths.

Pros

- high aperture -impressive appearance, constructive, assembly, protection against moisture and dust (requires a filter) - average, but fast enough autofocus speed and accuracy (using on a single (1Ds) * (was for 2022) - for professional use, if the quality of all components for any money is the most important to you, it is impossible to find a better fifty-fifty autofocus for a Canon system than this lens. *(impossible in 2022) - all the advantages inherent in FR 50 mm (universality of use: from landscapes to portraits and reportage)

Cons

- a very high price, but, for the most part, it is justified, after all, L and there is a difference with ƒ / 1.4 -not the best autofocus by modern standards (but quite good), the notorious shift focus inherent in such large relative apertures. -terrible HA and low sharpness in the open, up to about 1.8 holes are not working at all - about the two previous points: already quite old, this is the first of 50 and 85 ƒ / 1.2 canons, but 85 is even tighter with autofocus . - a bit old (2022), hence the autofocus and sharpness and HA, which do not compete with new lenses, even zooms of a similar price (this is, of course, 24-70 II and 70-200 II), but somewhere (in terms of sharpness and HA) and fixes (non-L) and zooms (L) are cheaper, but newer. - a bit old, which means it is not very promising for a purchase, because it should be ated, which will cause an obvious decrease in prices for it. At the beginning of 2022, the 35L ate is finally being heard, otherwise it’s not funny anymore, it (EF 35 ƒ / 1.4L USM) was announced in 1998 and there’s not even dust-moisture protection, what to say about the rest, about the new half a tone is not yet heard. -he loses to the EF 24-70 II in everything except aperture of course. For a comparable price - the difference is about 10-15K at the beginning of 2022: about 50K for 50 mm and 60-65K for 24-70 II.