My 85 1.2L review published

Complete review is available here www.slo-foto.net .

My 350D looks like new:)

It has been cleaned and polished (Maxi Brill rox!). Sensor is finally dust free, the dust "build up" was impressive. But who'd notice that, if he/she uses f1.8 almost exclusively. Lately even f1.2 (unfortunately these good days are over). Finally studio shots won't be full of spots:). Ok I rarely shoot in the studio with my camera, but nevertheless it's nice to know, that if I'll shoot in the studio, I won't have to clone the dust spots away.

Canon 1D mkIII hands on preview

Unfortunately a 5 minute preview. But enough to see the significant step forward, that Canon has made with this model. The size remains the same, while being a lot lighter. The specs don't show the real picture regarding the camera weight. It feels like it's half as light as its predecessor. They finally got rid of the clumsy controls, AF is even faster, now it's insanely fast. And the sound of the shutter at 10 fps is orgasmic.

When production model (this was pre-production) will be available, I'll do a complete test. I guess sometime in June...

I don't wanna return this kit tomorrow!

Kit=Canon 1Ds mkII+85 1.2L II.


Photo: Andrej Jerše

Hip hop honey

Canon 1Ds mkII+85 1.2L II. Fresh, straight out of the camera (through rawshooter ofcourse).

Micro DOF?

Hell yeah! Coming on your computer screens this weekend.

Finally!

A day with 85L and a model:D. Most of the shots are taken at ISO 800, since I noticed that when I was half way through the session. It was cloudy and I didn't find it weird to have such high shutter speeds, because I got used to having them at f1.2 (the first day I couldn't believe the difference and was checking ISO settings too). Ok it doesn't matter for web size anyway. You can still check the bokeh, colours, DOF and sharpness. But I feel a bit stupid nevertheless...

Ok, here are the photos, all of them straight out of rawshooter and all of them, except for the first one, are taken at f1.2:




EDIT: I've just done a few minor adjustments to this one...

A kiss for all my readers. Contrast is untouched. Colours are so saturated, that I add much less contrast in Rawshooter (shadow contrast also boosts colours), than with my 85 1.8, not to mention the 50 1.8, which has completely "washed" coulours compared to both 85's especially the L version.

f1.2, ISO 100+1 stop in rawshooter,1/2000

100% crop