You beat me to it.
I no longer have it, I looked at it wrong and it broke. Looking for a decent prime at the moment to go on the 5D that's sitting idle.
― not_goodwin, Friday, 24 May 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
I love my 85mm 1.8, £300
― MaresNest, Friday, 24 May 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
You'd recommend in then MaresNest? I was thinking of the 50mm 1.4, how do they compare?
rent, I love that desert shot with the shadows, I want one of them in my stream.Where and when was this?
― not_goodwin, Friday, 24 May 2013 23:45 (ten years ago) link
I have the thifty and am considering upgrading to the 1.4 at the end of the year. I can't truthfully say which is better, these threads may help?
http://www.flickr.com/groups/canoneos5dmarkii/discuss/72157629877272676/http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1143804
I've seen a few comments about the 85 along the lines of 'Best EF lens in the range, almost as good as an L' etc
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 May 2013 09:22 (ten years ago) link
*tsk* thrifty
have just the 1.4 but i never use it wider than f2. i'm moving towards a 35 & 85 or 35 & 100 pair which i feel will cover a better range than 50 & something.
― micah, Sunday, 26 May 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
i've owned a few 1.4 lenses and even a 1.2 lens at one point but i never used them at 1.4; i think they're good if you fetishize bokeh or you really do find yourself shooting in low light situations a lot. often times the optics are /worse/ than a 1.8 or 2.0 lens since wide aperture lenses require compromises in the lens design.
― 乒乓, Sunday, 26 May 2013 11:42 (ten years ago) link
like i think the 50 1.8 outperforms the 1.4 and the 1.2 throughout 2-4 or 2-5.6, though it evens out by the time you get to smaller apertures? could be wrong
― 乒乓, Sunday, 26 May 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the 50/1.8 is really good and it's hard to justify the extra cost of the 1.4 beyond build and silent focusing. I don't think there's much difference in image quality.
85/1.8 gets rave notices. I've borrowed the 100/2.0 before and that's marvellously sharp. The non-L primes are the best value Canons, I think. I love my 28/1.8 but I've always used it on a crop-sensor, so it's basically a normal lens. It would be a very different thing on a FF.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 26 May 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
love that shot by micah
― 乒乓, Sunday, 26 May 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
rent is that in the taklamakan
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
thanks. dat broken shutter
― micah, Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
yeah micah love that x 2
thanks not_goodwin...the camels were in the sahara, in morocco, last summer
― rent, Monday, 27 May 2013 02:18 (ten years ago) link
i love how the dog just blends into the sidewalk
― 乒乓, Monday, 27 May 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
My fuzzy ball pic = third ever upload to Flickr, March 2005. Crazy days.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
where is that ringed concrete ball?
― dylannn, Friday, 31 May 2013 07:10 (ten years ago) link
it was outside pyongyang, on the way in from the airport
― rent, Friday, 31 May 2013 08:16 (ten years ago) link
Bloody hell rent.
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 2 June 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
ha thanks, that pic was 99% getting up early and standing in the right place, though. if you google bagan, myanmar there's a million similar shots. amazing spot.
― rent, Sunday, 2 June 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
What a sequence!
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 2 June 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
Yeah Rent, that pic is marvellous!
― Louis C-Word (MaresNest), Sunday, 2 June 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
thanks!
― rent, Monday, 3 June 2013 09:33 (ten years ago) link
I was waiting for that Mr Jones.
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 12:06 (ten years ago) link
I took that photo 21 years ago!
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
disclaimer: my photo might not seem to make any logical sense, but way back toward the edge of the cliff are the sawed off wicker man feet
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:05 (ten years ago) link
micah, is that some kind of pinhole camera? or a lomo panoramic
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's both, their wide pinhole camera. it really burns through film you know
― micah, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
hah, how many shots per 36?
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
it's medium format so 6, or 7 if you start early and finish late.
― micah, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
ah. i have a fuji 6x9 that gets 8 shots per 120
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
jelly. a med format rangefinder is something i've wanted for a while but i don't know if it will happen now.
― micah, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
LL i like your photo
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
why thank yourip wicker man legs -- now it's just tiny stumps :(
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
everybody put your beach photos away, now
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
last three look like they're taken from a stop-motion film about nature reclaiming the planet from a dead civilisation
― 10zing blogay (seandalai), Thursday, 20 June 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
And now the planet is inhabited by giants!
― 10zing blogay (seandalai), Thursday, 20 June 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
one cool thing is how the photowheel also works in reverse
― 乒乓, Friday, 21 June 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
ledge that frisbee blowing my mind
― micah, Monday, 15 July 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
If anybody has a UFO photo for real, now's the time
― MaresNest, Monday, 15 July 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
It's been nearly a month... Kids are on the laptop right now, so I can't contribute but someone should!
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 17 August 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
I was getting paranoid, someone do as Mr Jones has requested.
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 17 August 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
ledge that is v. v. perfect imo
― micah, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
! v kind
― as a chocolate salesperson (ledge), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link