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Review on Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens, black by Agata Korzeb ᠌

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Average product, you can do better.

I have been using the budget 50 / 1.8II for a long time (in conjunction with the Canon50D, there is still a zoom 24-105 / 4L), and then I took a friend to test out the 50 / 1,2L for a couple of days. I have been using the budget 50 / 1.8II for a long time. I used both lenses to take a picture of a rose stem with leaves during the day, positioning them by the window, and setting the aperture to 1.8 and the shutter speed to 1/60. (in RAW, of course). I took photographs using both my hand and a tripod. There is no discernible improvement in the level of sharpness, and the reproduction of color is marginally improved (but very, very slightly, which can be neglected or corrected if necessary during processing). Because of the blurry background, the bokeh was not as good as it may have been. When you focus, there is far less noise. Because of the heavier lens, clarity is more reliably achieved at 50/1.2L (50/1.8 is too light; the camera "jumps" in the hand; you need to keep this in mind at all times when shooting at a slow shutter speed). The conclusion is that the difference in the picture quality that I anticipated from a 10-fold (!) difference in the cost of the lenses was not at all there. Once again, I was persuaded that before purchasing something, one ought to PERSONALLY put the product in question through its paces. As a result, I won't even risk switching to (or purchasing) the Canon 5D Mark II camera for the foreseeable future. whereas I do not have any such friends or acquaintances who are willing to put this camera through its paces for a couple of days. The fact of the matter is that I witnessed a great number of fantastic photographs (in the sense that they were technically superb) taken by the Canon 5D MII, but I also witnessed a great number of poor photographs taken by the same camera. It seems obvious that the most important aspect of a photograph is not the camera, but rather the photographer's hands and head; nonetheless, I still need to verify this for myself.

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