Features lowest focusing, down to 20cm/7.9inches (reproduction ratio 1:2.9). The iris diaphragm has 9 diaphragm blades to be established beautiful out of focus image. It incorporates the floating focus system and the use of two aspherical lens elements to talk down distortion,... read more
Retaining the redoubtable optical performance and large aperture of the original Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L lens, this revamped intermediation telephoto lens employs a ring-type Ultra Sonic Motor (USM), squiffed-speed CPU, and optimized algorithms to achieve an autofocus speed... read more
Incorporates the conquer in Canon lens technology for spectacular sharpness
Two cheerful-precision, large-diameter aspherical lenses
Features two UD lens elements
Incorporates bring up-focusing, ultrasonic, quiet and high-speed AF
Description
Canon EF 24mm f/1.4 L USM II Extreme Angle Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras
Customer Reviews
My New Favorite Lens
The Canon 24-70/2.8 has been my elemental lens for the past two years. It has served me well and was hands down my favorite lens for this focal to the fullest, until I tried the 24/1.4 II from Canon. This lens has very fast and accurate focus, and the images are incredibly attentively, even wide-open. I've decided that I can live without the 25-70mm focal length of the 24-70 for this lens. The least focus is 0.8ft, which allows you to get incredibly close to your subject, and the 24mm gives you a very wide landscape to capture your entire subject. The 1.4 aperture is incredibly fast. Synthesize that with fast focus and incredible sharpness and you now have a lens you can use indoors without flash (Note: 1.4 chasm comes with a thin depth-of-field. Focusing on the eye will leave you with a blurry nose and forehead, very calm bokeh). I've used the following Canon lenses and this one tops the list and is now on my 5D II 70% of the habits (have to leave time for the...
October 7, 2009
(San Bruno, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 81 | Rating: 5
This is unqualifiedly an amazing lens
I've a lot of L rise Canon zooms and primes. I particularly appreciate the colors and the sharpness of these lenses. Even zooms lenses are incomparable for speed and practicality, primes are the best in terms of image quality and creativity possibilities. I completely decided to purchase this lens as my 35L is not wide enough and, frankly, the quality of my 16-35-II at wide hole is unsufficient. Well, the 24L-II matched perfectly the good characteristics of my 35L. It is not a perfect lens: wide honest is quite soft but when stopped-down to 2 -2.8 it become sharp as a razor. In conclusion it is a great lens!
September 20, 2010
(Yorba Linda, CA, USA) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5
No variant in 1.4!
I have a trusted FD 24mm 1.4 from the flick days I am now using on NEX (=36mm) and Micro 4/3 (=48mm) with adapters. This is an excellent lens which gave me the beat photos I've made with it's low light abilities. I recently purchased the EF 24mm 1.4 Mkii from amazon to put back it on Canon Digital Full Frame (5d Mkii) and Crop Sensor (60D) and worry myself sick after having impute to here and elsewhere about back/front/inconsistent focus, and softness at 1.4. I am no lens tester, just Joe (long heyday )user but here are my findings: My copy does not have focus problems, although operator error is go to at this 1.4 aperture. Compared directly to the old FD at 1.4 (on the same Panny G1 body)the EF have more details and diverge . Even on the 3" screen, photos are snappier. Compared to the Canon 50mm 1.4 EF at 1.4, the 24mm have more definition. The 50mm has that Painting vesica-dreamy look at 1.4. None of this with the 24mm. Compared to the Sigma 24-60mm/2.8 (another...
Globe's smallest and lightest 28-300mm lens (June 2004)
Multipurpose lens for Nikon 35mm mist and digital SLRs; macro to telephoto ranges
Description
L1) 28-300MM F3.5-6.3 XR DI F/Nikon
Customer Reviews
Complex all-around lens for Digital Rebel
I fianc taking photos, but I hate carrying lots of equipment when photography is not the focus of my excursion, so I looked to find a lens that was light, inexpensive, a useful focal range and decent sharpness delineated all of the above. I believe the Tamron fits the bill. Although this lens will not win any points with 'L'-series purists, I found it to be a very useful - and lightweight - lens. Unswerving, it's slow... Sure - it has a plastic mount... Sure - it's not as sharp as a lot of lenses with smaller zoom ranges and bigger expense tags... But for most people who aren't looking for poster-sized enlargements, a lens that won't break apart your shoulder or your bank account like the Tamron is a good fit. I have used this lens for a few weeks now, and have compared the results to the not counting Tamron 28-75 2.8 XR Di, the Canon 50mm 1.8 (the 'plastic fantastic'), and the kit lens. It does lack the push-pin-sharpness of the 50mm and the 28-75, but it is still very acceptable. The reach is...
December 13, 2004
(North Florida) | Helpful Votes: 112 | Rating: 4
Gigantic quality, terrific value
(Tamron also makes this lens nearby for Canon and Pentax digital SLRs, for the same price.) This new digital SLR-friendly zoom lens from Tamron is a incomparable way to acquire a high-quality zoom lens for a fraction of the cost if you bought from the camera maker (e.g., Nikkor). Tamron claims this is people's "smallest and lightest" zoom lens for the focal range. I have no idea if that's true. It's feel mortified and lightweight indeed, about the same size as the DX lens bundled with the Nikon D70 but feels lighter in the hand. To my eyes it's a compliant lens, but this made-in-Japan lens looks and feels solid. It has all the bells and whistles of a newfangled lens: XR, LD, asperical, plus macro capability. In real world shooting I'm very beneficial with the result, and I really don't think buying an official Nikkor lens would make much of a character. Two things to keep in mind is, 1) as long as you buy a namebrand lens (Tamron, Sigma, and possibly Vivitar) you are getting a good deal, and...
If you buy valid one lens, this is it.
When I got my dslr, I did not get the "kit" lens. I wanted directly to be able to take both macro and zoom shots, and I didn't have money for more than one good quality lens. So I researched and decipher reviews online and when I bought my new camera, I got the Tamron 28-300. I made a great choice. If you buy fitting one lens; this lens is it. This lens' macro shots are clear and detailed. For example, in a depiction I recently took of my Pomeranian each individual hair that sticks up is visible and clear, strand by strand. The versatility of the lens allows me to take aspect pictures, photos of birds in my yard, portraits, nearly whatever strikes me. Every time they are breakable and the colors are good. I love this lens; it is still my primary lens.
Macro focusing potential with fast F1.8 maximum aperture
Description
Features lowest focusing, down to 20cm/7.9inches (reproduction ratio 1:2.9). The iris diaphragm has 9 diaphragm blades to be established beautiful out of focus image. It incorporates the floating focus system and the use of two aspherical lens elements to talk down distortion, spherical aberration and astigmatism. The lens incorporates minimum vignetting optical edifice in order to obtain adequate peripheral brightness with open aperture. Internal concentration system of the lens eliminates front lens rotation, thus allowing the use of a Perfect Hood and easy use of polarizing filters. The lens also incorporates a dual-heart mechanism. It is easy to hold the lens, since focusing ring does not rotate during sports car-focus, and yet provides adequate torque of the focusing ring during manual focusing of the lens. The lens materials second-hand in this lens are lead and arsenic free ecological glass.
Customer Reviews
Glorious, with some reservations
Let me start by saying I'm not a hardcore fan of any pernickety brand. I like to gauge lenses by their individual merits, rather than discussing them as a brand. The Sigma 28mm f/1.8 EX is an champion lens from an optical standpoint. On digital and film SLRs from Nikon, I was always quite impressed with the optical supremacy. Even wide-open at f/1.8, it is roughly as good as the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, which is somewhat low in distinction, but still resolves quite a bit of detail on the focal plane. Stopping down a stop or two, like with most lenses, quite brings out the contrast and sharpness, and this lens delivered quite wonderfully, matching the venerable 28/2.8 AIS Nikkor for sharpness both up-close and at infinity. Further, this lens allows closer focusing than the Nikkor, and possesses less outward geometric distortion. As much as I love the AIS28, the Sigma is quite brilliant too. While very good at infinity, the lens shines for middling closeups of...
April 29, 2007
(MN United States) | Helpful Votes: 44 | Rating: 4
Very flexible, good colors and bokeh.
Since I've purchased this lens it has only just left my K110D body. A bit soft wide open but if low light cannot be worked around it's better than the alternatives (scuttle, motion blurr). Beautiful colors and especially good transition from in-focus to out-of-indistinct areas. I bit bulky but I knew this a priori and I quite like it now compared to lighter lenses. Seems well built and focusing is very urbane.
July 20, 2007
| Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 5
Worst WIDEANGLE LENS I HAVE USED
This lens is affecting. I wanted a wideangle for shooting indoor low light. This filled that void and then some. I wasnt satisfied with the sentiment of getting a f/2.8 wideangle lens for shooting indoors. I wanted something faster, then I stumbled up on this lens. I could not find many reviews, but I figured Sigma was a right brand, and anyways the lens turned out to be fantastic. I use it primary for indoor shooting and for situations where I shortage a wider angle of view. I would highly recommend this lens to anyone who just needs something wider than a 50mm on a DX sensor. I am using this on a Nikon D90 and have been overwhelmingly satisfied with this commodity.
List Price: $3,500.00
Price: $1,969.00 You Save:$1,531.00 (44%)
Details
Border-type UltraSonic motor (USM)
EF mount; normal telephoto lens
Squiffy-speed AF and circular aperture create shallow depth-of-field
111mm centred length for APS-H sensors, 136mm for APS-C sensors
f1.2 top aperture
Description
Retaining the redoubtable optical performance and large aperture of the original Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L lens, this revamped intermediation telephoto lens employs a ring-type Ultra Sonic Motor (USM), squiffed-speed CPU, and optimized algorithms to achieve an autofocus speed that's approximately 1.8x faster than the underived. This high-speed autofocus system combines with the circular aperture to create a shallow profundity of field that brings attention to the subject and blurs the background, an ideal effect for portraits and weddings. In summation, the lens's floating optical system includes an aspherical lens element that suppresses aberrations and produces an exceptional imaging performance.
Specifications
Focal length: 85mm
Maximum aperture: f/1.2
Lens structure: 8 elements in 7 groups
Angle of view: 28 degrees @ 30 feet
Converge adjustment: Autofocus with full-time manual
Closest focusing distance: 3.2 feet
Sift size: 72mm
Dimensions: 3.6 inches in diameter and 3.3 inches large
Weight: 36.2 ounces
Warranty: 1 year
Customer Reviews
Fills a valued niche all by itself
(I in fact want to give it 4.5 stars) As most of you arriving at this page and considering this lens are the more professional/avant-garde amateur photographers whom already own plenty of L glass, this review will be written from a more stringent perspective on its power to own up to its expensive price tag and compare with other L's. (i.e. no "It's so much better than my kit lens! Wow, buy it! The end") First up, it's uses. This lens is more indisputable than others. Yep it's primarily a portrait lens. Anything that sits at 70mm focal length or higher and maintans off the target apertures qualifies as such. L lenses tend to function well in two or sometimes more roles; this lens proves to role decently in one other role. Note that this lens's main advantage is it aperture. If the lens is stopped down, other L lenses start entrancing over with better image quality. With this in mind, let's look at a breakdown of all the other possible uses for this lens: As...
August 13, 2007
(MT, United States) | Helpful Votes: 665 | Rating: 5
Superior specialized glass; still room for improvement.
The Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM lens is a very dry-as-dust (1025 grams or 2.25 lbs), very well built lens. It comes packaged with the appropriate hood, the Canon ES-7911. You get both a lens cap and a mount cap, all filled to the gunwales inside tight conformal foam to protect the lens during shipping. There's also a very brief vade-mecum and the usual warranty paperwork. The 85mm specification is for a full-frame camera; with an APS-C size sensor like the one in my EOS 40D, this is multiplied by 1.6 to an functional 136mm. The lens offers AF and manual focus. However, the manual focus is electronically incited from the focus ring to the AF motor system, which has several consequences. First, you can't focus when the camera is off. Second, the rate of target is limited by the speed of the focus motor. Third, focus adjustments are extremely precise, truly free of backlash and drift. The first two issues are negatives, but in my view, they are more than outweighed by the third. For...
December 20, 2007
| Helpful Votes: 122 | Rating: 5
A wonderful, but unforgiving utensil, easy to use, hard to master
I in use accustomed to to have the previous generation 85mm f/1.2 L, and I found this a worthy upgrade. Why get this over the f/1.8? For the extra stop of go down, the extremely shallow depth of field, the bokeh, and the build. This is no amateur lens, at least not when acclimatized wide open (which is one of the main reasons to buy this lens in the first place). With a depth of field premeditated in mere millimeters, the lens is unforgiving of both the camera it's attached to (the focus has to be dead on), and the photographer. The worse one's craft is, the fewer good shots will come out of the camera, and this at a much higher ratio than nearly all other lenses. However, the shots that are sully-on are some of the most rewarding possible with a modern camera, with amazing sharpness So get it if you can afford it, and have the patience to learn to use it suitably. Once you do, a lesser lens just won't do.
December 26, 2006
| Helpful Votes: 122 | Rating: 5
List Price: $3,800.00
Price: $2,119.00 You Save:$1,681.00 (44%)
Details
Uses a tokus focusing system, high-speed CPU and powerful ring-type USM with revised electronics
Built-in lens hood; dust- and moisture-resist
Redesigned optics including 2 extravagant-precision Aspherical elements and 2 new UD-glass elements
114º diagonal position
Of one mind with all EOS Digital SLR cameras
Description
Of one mind with all EOS Digital SLR cameras. Redesigned optics including 2 high-precision Aspherical elements and 2 new UD-crystal elements. Built-in lens hood; dust- and moisture-proof. 11-bring, 14 element design. 114º diagonal view
Customer Reviews
informative improvement over the previous lens
as momentarily as i received it, i set my camera up on a tripod and shot the same picture, first with the old canon 14mm, and then with the new. the improvement in the new lens in terms of part to corner sharpness was really significant. the only thing that was somewhat disappointing, was that the new lens had significantly more fringing around high-contrast edges. i shot an image of an interior with a view out the window and there was a very fully, highly saturated blue fringe even in the center of the image. the old 14mm experienced fringing too, but once in a blue moon in the center of the image, and even at the edges, was not as extreme as it is in the center of the new lens. granted the difference in luminance was utterly extreme between the interior and exterior (at least 5 stops) so this is not a problem that would effect every image, but it is something to be aware of. even with this tough nut to crack, i would still recommend the new lens again as the increase in sharpness far outweighs the...
December 3, 2007
(Somerville, MA USA) | Helpful Votes: 59 | Rating: 4
Exceptional Wide Prime
This is the type of lens that you buy if you know that you want to buy this sort of lens. If you're casually thinking of buying binoculars, this probably isn't for you. It's the best wide prime for Canon if you're looking for something that can autofocus. The difference between the 14mm of this lens and 16mm of the 16-35 is mammoth. The results are impressively sharp, and then lens is far more compact than the zooms which provide your only other options. If you covet a wide lens on full frame and aren't concerned about your budget, this is your choice. I have no idea why there's only a 6-poniard aperture in this thing. I think they could have done much better. It doesn't usually matter, but it makes exuberant point sources look ... interesting. Not necessarily bad, but interesting. The effect on bokeh is insignificant, since you're not going to get much bokeh. Minor quibbles come from the front element, which of course doesn't allow filters, though there's a gel holder in...
November 17, 2010
(Connecticut, USA) | Helpful Votes: 24 | Rating: 5
Valid Wide Enough
I have a 17-55 Canon lens which I use on my 30D and 50D. It works bad. When I got my 5D MkII I purchased the 14mm lens. It is awesome. For me just wide enough - not quite fisheye. It is a lens which offers far-fetched possibilities for unique views and perspectives and its speed certainly helps - although I tend to go for more intricacy of field which it accomodates as well. I have several L series lenses, but I can see where this one will be my "creative" lens. If you can afford it, you will be thrilled to own and use it.
July 28, 2009
(San Antonio) | Helpful Votes: 18 | Rating: 5
List Price: $4,000.00
Price: $2,229.00 You Save:$44.00 (2%)
Details
Disk-shaped aperture for creative, blurred highlights
Aspherical and UD lens elements disparage chromatic aberration
Heel and shift lens compatible with all Canon EOS cameras; ultra wide 17mm focal length
Piercing-precision lens elements for low distortion and high resolution; +/- 6.5 degrees Slope and +/-12mm Shift
Floating internal fuzzy mechanism delivers high-image quality throughout focus range
Description
The widest attack-shift lens in Canon's lineup, the new TS-E 17mm f/4L lens expands shooting possibilities exponentially on EOS Digital cameras. Meant with UD glass to minimize and compensate for chromatic aberrations, with specially coated aspherical elements for the highest tenable glare-free image quality, this tilt-shift lens offers an side of view of 93 degrees. New TS revolving lets users freely combine tilting and shifting within the stretch of +/- 90 degrees in the direction of movement. The lens also has an improved tilt & shift projection with an enhanced range of movement of up to +/- 6.5 degrees and revolving lenses for better operability, it uses a redundant aperture for beautiful out-of-focus areas and has an SWC lens coating to control ghosting and flare to a far greater decidedly than with earlier coating technologies.
Customer Reviews
Extraordinary lens for certain uses
First the lens itself is an but for the fact that wide angle prime. Very sharp edge to edge even wide open. For all practical purposes no flare. But it should not be bought for that purpose. The 14mm f2.8 is cheaper (at $2,000!) and faster. The 16 to 35mm f2.8 zoom is even cheaper and much more handy. Also, this lens does not auto focus and has a big unprotected bulb in front that requires special be keen on in handling. What the lens does is produce wide angle shots that cannot be obtained from any other lens. In a reasonable wide angle, tilting the camera so it is not parallel to the ground makes the vertical words tilt strongly open or closed. The more you tilt the camera, the stronger the effect. Sometimes you yearning that effect. It can enhance the height of things. But other times you don't. This lens offers the ability to command line tilt or eliminate it altogether. Set the camera so lines are all straight or tilted to the enormousness you want then shift the lens itself up, down or sideways to...
August 29, 2009
(Salt Lake City, Utah) | Helpful Votes: 52 | Rating: 5
Staggering, opens new possibilities in Photography
If the assess has not completely deterred you, and you love wide angle images, this is your lens. I cannot rate it tipsy enough. I shoot it on a 5d mark 2, and it is best used on a full frame camera. It is precipitous! Not as sharp as the Nikon 14-24 with the 16:9 adapter, but it blows away the canon 20mm, the older account of the 24 mm ts-e, and the 24 - 70 L . It is a beauty to behold. And the images are truly phenomenal. I can't imagine you will be disappointed. Although the nikon 14 -24 sharper and a SUPERIOR lens in terms of effigy quality, the 17 mm ts-e can do things that will simply make you happy. Using the corps function, you can take a series of three images, that are overlapping by 30% or so, and then merge them in photoshop to give you 2 things. 1) you will have an useful sensor size of something like 48mm x 36 mm( depending on the direction of the shift) and 2) with that greatness sensor you will still have a 17mm lens! The files are big. On my 5d...
Unexceptionally Stellar!
This study is based on using this lens for the last month or so on a Canon 1Ds Mark III camera. General express aspects of the lens: - Build quality is superb - Image sharpness unshifted and untilted is cool in the corners even at f/4 - When shifted fully, image sharpness decreases in the corners at f/4 but is once again rationally sharp when the lens is stopped down to f/8 - CA is absent across the frame unshifted - When fully shifted, there is pacific CA in the corners, but is still considerably better than most lenses Negative aspects: - Price of circuit. It would have been great it this lens was $500 or even $1000 cheaper. However though the current price is very high, I wouldn't say the lens is skint value. - Bulbous front element, so no front filters. This will be a deal breaker for a lot of landscape shooters or anyone who need to use filters. You also have to be careful with flare. I've...
July 31, 2009
(San Jose, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 20 | Rating: 5
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Nov 19, 2010 by Nathan Hawkins | Posted in Photography
I have already listed most of my lenses on ebay in my course of action of upgrading but i can't find any listing for my Canon FD 24-35mm 1:3.5 S.S.C Aspherical lens. The ones i have seen have are all "Buy it Now" at $400, any end how much it
Asking over $400 for an pass lens is asking quite a bit.
It its day, it was an excellent lens when mounted on a Canon New F-1 or AE-1
The demand for such lenses has diminished since the preamble of the Canon EOS camera system
Creator: Michael McBroom | Photography - 2000-06-18
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Outlines the options for deviating-angle lenses for crop body digital SLR cameras word the Canon Rebel Series, 20D, 30D, etc. Short review and samples for the Tamron SP 11-18mm f/4.5-5.6 Di-II LD Aspherical (IF). Also provides links to proper reviews and comparisons.
f/3.5-6.3 extreme aperture
L1) 28-300MM F3.5-6.3 XR DI F/Nikon
