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And so is the bokeh...
(Just can't resist pimping that lens!!)
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my fave lens too ,its just gorgeous ;0)
what are filters?
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Scubapup asked for a dog picture with this lens. Here it is!
Sadie with the 135 f2 L
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It's not nearly as fun as it is on the full-frame 5D, but still produces exceptional images nonetheless (and yes, it is a little long):
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It's hard NOT to show off this lens....
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I'm in complete agreement with the pup... this is from about 4/5 feet...
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big pimpin''
youl be happier spending money ......i promise ........spend spend
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As for low light, sun was actually down here, but some lenses don't need the sun...
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For indoor portraits, I use flash so I can be at 1/250.
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 135 mm
ISO Speed: 1250
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Flash fired
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In some places - in others, it's black.
It's hard to tell with this lighting - but you can see the same two-color legs in this outdoor shot:
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Here is an example of this lens with indoor sports.
Bob Bryan serves to the French Davis Cup Doubles Team today. Bob and Mike Bryan were defeated 7-6, 5-7, 3-6, 4-6 to make the score between France and the USA 2-1, USA in the lead.
The USA ended up winning the tie 4-1 when Andy Roddick clinched it in the 4th match.
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This world NEEDS more crappy photos of my dog!!!
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That raindrops shot is cool, still cant make out that its a window.
Loving the bokeh on this lens:
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Must pimp lens.....
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no ..........must...not.............arrghhhhhh its too strong , i must pimp iiiiiiittttttttttt.
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No.........Must........Not........No no no...........Ugh. Must.....Not.......Ok, what the heck.....Must pimp lens.....
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must pimp more than b/p.............hehehehehe
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Lens P........P.....Pimpin'
Got Detail?
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@ Scubapup.....lol
More Lens Pimpin' Comin' Right Up Here on W135F2 Canon. This is DJ Jalexsmith Signing on!
Leaves Growing In
The Tulip
(That's the tulip that came out of the bud I posted earlier!)
Inside of the Tulip
Madam Butterfly
Enough lens pimpin' from me for a bit.....what about the rest of you?
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"But, Scuba, if you close the thread, where can we show off this lens??"
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Aint no fun if the homies cant have none...
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Incoming!
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Awesomest Lens Ever!
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Dave - most of my images are uncropped, though some are cropped for composition as I tend to use center focus to catch action...
Pixie's right, though - in a pinch, you can take photos like this:
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oh go on then , il pimp it up again lol.
5D full frame uncropped ;0)
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@ Ectheo - Don't do anything you will regret, even though it is a great lens.
More Pimpin'..........
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@ BoldPuppy - It's a lobster! Great photos!
More Lens Pimping.....
My sister took this one of me when I let her try out my camera yesterday.
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Sam - were you shooting wide open, or stopped down?
Wide-open, for the most part. Here's an example at 150mm...
Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 on 1D Mark III (1.3 crop camera)
Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 on 1D Mark III - cropped.
NOTE: This isn't a crop from the center - on a 1.6 crop camera, this would actually be the top edge!
Is it super-duper sharp? No. But for a $600 f/2.8 zoom, it's pretty impressive nonetheless.
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ok been 10 posts since last pimp ;0)
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How about velcro paws?
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You guys should be sponsored by Canon! I wonder how many 135L's this thread will end up selling?!
I can say mine was money well spent. Hasnt come off my camera since I got it...
Dont think i've used unsharp mask with this lens yet.
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The gospel of the 135L shall not go unheard!
Oh yes, feel the spirit.
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Low-light live music pimpin'....
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pimpin at the beach
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ah... ah... ah... pim..choo
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so.. my 135F2 give me this!
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Ok......here we go......
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Dollar for Dollar, one of the very best lenses Canon makes...
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That brings up another fantastic thing about the lens- AF speed. You don't hear about a lot of people using the 85L for sports.
As for having too many primes (or lenses in general)... I guess it's possible. Just depends on how many different situations you shoot in. I have five lenses that I actually use but I rarely carry more than 2 at a time.
Also... man, I coulda sworn there was something I came here to do... what was it now...
Ah, nevermind.
Oh that's right! I came here to pimp!
My expensive new bike through my expensive new lens. I am broke and happy.
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those two cat shots are fantastic btw .....and im no cat fan .
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More Pimps Needed!
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Havent really had a chance to get out and take many pictures but to help keep this thread going here's a few from around the house:
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I'm using it on a 20D, and loving it. The plan is to upgrade to a 5D (mkII?) later in the year though.
Here is my new baby, only had it a week:-
I haven't had much chance to play with it yet, but I grabbed this yesterday evening:
And this when I first got it:-
I've used it most for portraits, but they're locked down to family and friends. I've been dead chuffed with it so far :^)
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Thanks, Sam.
More Pimpin' Comin' Right Up.....
Got Indoor Portraits Under HID Lights?
Got Indoor Sports?
Now you do!
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wrote When you change the crop factor, you change how far you'd be from your subject with each camera to get the same framing, hence you change the amount of compression you see.
Ok- I get that. But, I must be getting dense with old age. On a FF, you'd be at distance "x" to get a given composition, like this one:
(yes, the world NEEDS more crappy photos of my dog playing with his balls... )
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture: f/2.5
Focal Length: 135 mm
ISO Speed: 320
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
So you get a certain level of compression. Call that "C". This compression is directly related to the depth of field of the image. Since I don't know how to calculate compression, but I do know how to calculate DoF (thanks to the many websites out there), I would be physically closer to my lucky dog to get the exact same framing. This means that I'd have a much smaller DoF.
Let's say I was 10 feet away to get this framing. The calculator says that the depth was:
Depth of field
Near limit 9.91 ft
Far limit 10.1 ft
Total 0.17 ft
To get the same framing on the FF, I would need to be 6.25 ft away. The Dof would be:
Depth of field
Near limit 6.2 ft
Far limit 6.3 ft
Total 0.1 ft
Almost half of the DoF!
If the Compression effect is related to DoF, would it not make sense that the image would be more compressed with a more narrow DoF? Am I thinking too much into this, and really need coffee?
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Here's an example of compression and how it effects a photo (and our perception of DoF, btw):
35mm @ f/2 about 3 feet to subject
135mm @ f/2 about 13 feet to subject (equalized for subject size)
(unfortunately a third photo should be here, and that's the 35mm at 13 feet, cropped to be the same framing as the 135mm - they would look the same in terms of compression, although the 35mm shot would have much more DoF)
The 135mm is much more "compressed" - you see less of the background, and so while the DoF is roughly identical, the 135mm gives you a much "cleaner" looking shot. So, getting back to the original point - your 135L on a FF is not going to look the same. It's going to look like an 85mm looks on a crop camera. To get the same effect on a FF camera, you'd have to have 215mm lens.
Again, I believe this is largely why the 135L has gotten so popular in the dSLR age - the combination of having f/2 on what is effectively a 200mm lens giving you this wonderfully "compressed" effect is very novel and has that "wow" factor you guys keep rattling on about.
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great for street candids at night.
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this is the lens I would like to shoot all my pics with. I wish all canon lenses are like this one.
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I did read that article... but I'm not so sure I buy the math in there - that's what got me thinking earlier today.
I think the angst that Sam has with me is that I just need to get over it, and admit he's right!! (grin) And he probably is...
I definitely agree with you. When I had the 28-135 lens, I found that I was at 135 more often than not. While going wide has some appeal, I prefer the tighter in look.
The real gist lies in the 'useable' distance that you have, and my desire to contemplate FF lies in that the lens really is too long for indoor work, but it's just so... yummy. Going to FF will allow me to be able to better position myself for indoor shots with the lens, compression, depth, and other issues be damned!
Ok - must pimp a little more...
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More Pimps Coming Right Up.....
Horse!
My Sister Close-Up
My Dad
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Night time pimping.
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here are some kiddos for your wife Sicilian0
...edit: no pimping the kids though.
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Here's another pimp.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=plUy7Me_fZQ
oh yeah , pimp it baby ;0)
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Damn you people and your beautiful images. It's made me mad, mad I say! So I did the only thing I could do: go out and buy one.
Pretty happy so far. I have an uncontrollable urge to chimp, though.
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Daytime, B/W
No Bokeh, testing range
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More Dog Shots!
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Ok. Now I'm ready to pimp this lens. With a child shot for Silican0.
My sister got her hair dyed at her schools carnival yesterday.
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LOL. It drives Sam nuts, but eventually, I'll prove him right. We've been packing for a trip (yes, I'll have internet access), but I'll be otherwise unable to respond much.
Oh, and I did rent a lens for the trip (from www.lensprotogo.com - thanks, Paul!) - I landed on the 10-22mm as a supplement to the 50 and the 135. I took a few test shots with the lens, and yes, it's mindblowing how wide it is. From shooting normal and tele lenses so much, I forget how much perspective distortion there really IS in a superwide. My wife did NOT appreciate me taking a photo with it - she made me delete the closeup...
I did get an equation from the research paper on perspective compression, and will plug 'n' chug some numbers in there, and I'm willing to bet that they will prove Sam right. I'll also show that for working indoors, the 135 really should be on a full frame...
(and yes, this is now on 3 pages...)
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not sure if ive already pimped this one but no matter ,its too nice lol.
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You guys can stick your noses in charts and equations all you want, but when trying to understand photographic principles I'm of the opinion that you're better off using photographs than calculators.
Here's three shots, with three different lenses, all taken from the same distance. They've been "cropped" to all achieve a focal length equivalent of about 215mm:
As I've been saying... the amount of "compression" is identical, while the DoF is drastically different. End of story.
FWIW, here's the same 135mm lens used in the first shot on a 1.6 crop camera, moved forward to compensate for framing since it is now on a 1.3 crop. While the difference here isn't exactly dramatic, you can see that moving the camera forward has changed the perspective, and so you can now see more of the background (you can see the left hand edge of the stove now, for instance):
So, again... perspective is controlled by distance to subject. Focal length equivalent controls the FoV (AoV? is there a difference?) and thus the distance you will be to your subject to get the same framing. So using a 135mm lens on a FF camera will give you less compression and most likely a less desirable photo than a 135mm lens would on a 1.6. Capiche?
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Whilst we're all in pimping our 135L mode:-
"Backlit Bluebells" by crayzy_ray [?]
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Here's an example....
40D, 50mm, f/4, on the left.........5D, 80mm, f/4, on right...
You get less DOF with FF at the "equivalent" FL for a given aperature.
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...tried to photomerge this and another photo in PSElements 4, but flickr doesn't want it. It wasn't too big, but might be the ".psd"? Anyhow, here's a bump for 135L's page 4:
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Not only bokeh, it's fast!
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Such amazing colours and bokeh with this lens, excellent for street photography, especially at night
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I could always post another one... (pimpedy pimp pimp pimp)
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soft, soft, soft, did I metion soft? softer than 200mm 1.8L, or tokina 12-24, I know those are total different focal lenses, to me, it is too soft for protrait, I probably got bad lens it might be needed calibration.
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mine gets a lot of use
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night performance is excellent, but day it tended to be over exposured, is something to do with exposure compensation?
night: Canon 30D+ 135 F2 original, untouched:
and day light: original and untouched, open its original size, you can see edge is not sharp at all.
compare to 200mm 1.8L side by side, you will find difference:
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Just to add to all of the rest of the 135mm F/2L love (if there wasn't already enough reasons to go out and buy one...)
It's smooth and crisp:
It's bright and colourful:
Although thin, the DOF (even on a 5D) isn't unmanageable:
I've used it at parties (in large-ish hall size rooms) to get pseudo-candid portraits; the results are fantastic, but it tends to scare people as the front element seems to have a weird ethereal green glow, as if it's going to steal their soul :)
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I haven't pimped this lens in a while, so it's time for a very big pimp session. Here we go....
Nothing is actually in focus in this next image.....it's just an example of the bokeh.
And with 68mm of Extension Tubes Attached....
Ok, I'm done for now.....more later.
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needs a bump this thread lol .
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Such a great thread. Went back out to my local NPS lake over the weekend. The 135L's the longest I have with me now, so wildlife is a bit of a challenge, even with the 1.4 Extender....
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How about a banana leaf after a rain?
Or some orchid bokeh?
Maybe a flower unwrapping in the morning...
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Pimpin' Silverlake, Los Angeles
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ty jal. im also lovin this thread because its making me go out n pimp some more yah mofo's lol,
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It's been too long since there were poodles in this thread. Not quite the first shot off of my new lens:
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Did someone say poodles?
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As we still seem to be pimping :^)
"Top of the pecking order" by crayzy_ray [?]
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Pimpin' NYC
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This lens hasn't changed much for me so far; the shots I set up on purpose never quite wow me, and it seems to always be something shot on a whim that stands out:
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Some math ...
Canon 20D, 1.6x crop, with 135 mm equals to 216 mm f/2.
A carousel from 88th floor in a building.
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More feverish pimping :)
"Ain't Nothin' but a hound dog" by crayzy_ray [?]
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Time to pimp......
More Later :)
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More Pimps....
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erm, no it stays with me lol.
this thread needs a bump ....tut tut 15 hrs since last pimp lol.
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...I could use $14...
Here's an accidental 135L...
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woohoo lol
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forever friends
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5 pages? Sheesh. Look what happens when I go on vacation...
oh, I mean, that's great!
I'm back from the beach part of the trip... now I have to process about 1400 shots, give or take a few. In the meantime, a few of the highlights are now on my stream.
Including a few worthy of the pimp...
The water was very shallow in places... shallow enough that I could walk about and photograph the fish....
Don't try this at home, kiddies...
... I had this in a camera raincoat... even through yet another piece of glass, it still took sharp photos.
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Yes -- though it's a LOT of work to travel with an infant, she seems to be tolerating the trip relatively well. When you introduce her to lots and lots of new people, she can freak out a little, as you can imagine (she is here being introduced to her relatives, and there are LOTS of relatives here in Venezuela). But, on the whole, the trip is quite fun! The hardest part is that some of these relatives want to grab my camera...sigh.
On the way back from the beach, we visited Valencia (more relatives...). One home is set up to attract lots of birds...
And yes... the 135 is still my favorite lens, by far.....
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even @ f/6.3 the bokeh is fab
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I'm using it on a 20D, and loving it. The plan is to upgrade to a 5D (mkII?) later in the year though.
I did read that article... but I'm not so sure I buy the math in there - that's what got me thinking earlier today.
I definitely agree with you. When I had the 28-135 lens, I found that I was at 135 more often than not. While going wide has some appeal, I prefer the tighter in look.
LOL. It drives Sam nuts, but eventually, I'll prove him right. We've been packing for a trip (yes, I'll have internet access), but I'll be otherwise unable to respond much.
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