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Reviews (17)
27 Sep, 2018
Classic tool
Yay a classic device that is ready and working whenever you need it in the middle of the night - no more fiddly batteries!!!
Reading the scale tests your eyes as by it’s nature it’s quite small but if it was much larger it wouldn’t fit under your tongue :)
Would recommend
26 Jan, 2018
Bright design
Love this light which I purchased for an outside front porch light to come on by way of a PIR sensor and which really looks beautiful and far nicer than anything else I could find. The design reminds me of those very early diving suit helmets and has a nicely naval quality to it.
We shall see how it ages but the quality looks to be good and hoping it will give many years service.
Reccomended.
03 Apr, 2011
My eye
5 of 5 found this helpful It sounds bizarre to have a 'favorite focal length', but the lens most often associated with our own eyesight and therefore most natural to our own perspective is 50mm and it IS my favorite focal length.
It was the 'standard' lends that old film SLR cameras came equipped with in olden days, and even in a relatively inexpensive version boasted wide open apertures of f1.8, rendering out of focus areas into a delicious creamy blur that seemed to melt together like a hazy memory, which when compared to much slower 'standard' kit zooms frankly just make me look and enjoy the 'look' of the photo as well as the content.
So in the interest of full disclosure I'm a fan of a 50mm prime lens, which when I had an Olympus OM1 meant a Zuiko f1.8, on my old Nikon F4 and earlry DX meant a Nikon f1.4 which I dropped from my loft hatch to the floor 12 feet below and apart from a broken lens filter, it was fine and then after my subsequent defection to Canon it has meant for the last few years the Canon f1.4.
As a just grab-and-leave-on, walk-around with lens, the Canon f1.4 did it for me, light-weight, fast-to-focus, certainly sharp enough and great for capturing memories that tallied with my own mental recollections it is brilliant, I had to have it serviced when it went a bit strange for a stint, but it was my favorite lens bar none and I have many.
But bearing in mind how often I used it, I often wondered at the wisdom of spending 4 times the amount to upgrade to the 'L' version just to get a half a stop speed improvement and rounded aperture blades to improve 'bokeh' at reduced apertures.
But some things don't tally on a spread sheet.
The L version of Canon's standard prime comes with reduced flare coatings, no discernible advantage at apertures above f2.8, much more bulk, a more solid, weighty feel and balance on a camera such as a 5D mkII and a wide open aperture of f1.2.
Canon did make an f1 version some time back but everything I've read about it suggests it was great on paper and less endearing to have and use.
The f1.2 is not super sharp at f1.2, I rarely shoot wide open, the f1.4 wasn't sharp wide open either, but stop down 1 stop and they both 'bite' and the f1.2 fractionally more so. This means the f1.2 is beautifully sharp with great bokeh by f1.8 whereas the f1.4 takes to f2.
When you look at those numbers it really does sound like madness to upgrade but I still don't care, they're both great lenses, but I love the L f1.2, when you do stop down the out of focus areas are less busy and when it's close to wide open it's beautifully sharp and dreamily blurred in all the right places.
I know the Zeiss lenses and the Hartblei manual focus lenses are sweet, I really wish I could manually focus for their 'look', but I'm resigned to autofocus lens technology for all their shortcomings and false positives they're still much better that I can do solo and at 50mm, my favorite focal length, in my camera system, this is the best lens I could want, it's a corker. Thank you Canon.