Review on Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras - White Box (Brand New in Bulk Packaging) by Wiktor elazny ᠌

Name: Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras - White Box (Brand New in Bulk Packaging)
Item: Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras - White Box (Brand New in Bulk Packaging)
Rating: 5

July 04, 2023

Best I have ever used, great product for anyone!

The lens is ideal for reportage and genre shooting at dusk or in rooms with poor lighting, for evening and night landscapes, as well as booze and parties. Yes, yes, it is for capturing booze and parties that high-quality and expensive optics are required, no matter how strange it may seem! Ofcomurse, a banquet to a banquet is different. Ordinarycomrporate gatherings can be photographed with a soap dish - and everyone will probably get familiar insane pictures: red eyes, glaring moon-shaped faces against a black, like in a cave, background (they are watched only once in order to recall the events of yesterday, no more desire occurs). Another thing is the wedding celebration. The requirements for wedding photos are multiplied tenfold, and the most entertaining of them are obtained if you photograph unnoticed, without flash attracting attention, wandering around the hall unseen and clicking without warning. Well, what lens is best for solving such a difficult task? With a "fifty kopeck" (50mm f/1.4), you have to step back too far, and the walls get in the way, and the guests, as luck would have it,comnstantly walk back and forth, getting into the frame at the most inopportune moment. The younger brother (35mm f / 2) does not have enough aperture. More wide-angle devices will also not work, too much. So only this one is 35mm f/1.4. In fact, they can shoot everything, but I still take a zoom station wagon or even a whale for nature. It is morecomnvenient with them, and it will not be so insulting if you shy away from the aspen. Photos are in my albums 

Pros

I was attracted by a rare combination of high aperture and an interesting focal length, which allows you to get high-quality pictures not only on a clear day, but even in a dark, cramped room or outdoors on a gray overcast evening, while working without a flash, at low ISO and with a short shutter speed. On cameras with a crop factor of 1.6 (most Canon DSLRs), this wide-angle "turns" into a 56mm lens with a field of view characteristic of the human eye. (Once upon a time, this is how I looked at the world and the domestic camera "Zenith" with the legendary "Helios 44"). Like the color rendition. The lens retains natural, vibrant colors and does not eat halftones. The sky on the horizon does not become milky white, its color smoothly changes from blue to light blue, without merging with the clouds. Shadows and poorly lit objects do not look like black flat spots, for example, on dark clothes, its folds stand out quite prominently. High sharpness and detail (the best performance at aperture 2.8), fast and error-free autofocus, a durable dust and moisture-resistant body are also pleasing. Kind thing.

Cons

1. The price, of course, is a bit high. But, given that this lens is probably not acquired by chance (went - saw - bought), but purposefully, with a certain calculation and a sober look at the price tag, its high cost cannot be considered a real disadvantage. A professional will “recapture” this money in less than a month, and an amateur will receive solid respect and respect for good pictures. 2. For single portraits, perhaps not very suitable. Is that - in full growth and to the waist. When shooting at close range, the facial features are somewhat distorted, and just enough to give him a completely idiotic expression (cool, in Photoshop this will not work). 3. Light bokeh, reminiscent of a slight Gaussian blur in Photoshop. Blurring the background "in milk" will not work. Perhaps this is not a drawback, but a feature of the lens. However, it is enough to highlight the foreground.