Häppy Holidays! Bokeh shot with Canon f1.2 vintage lens
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I wish you all happy holidays! May the new year bring compassion, joy and success!
I just received a vintage lens that I bought from Japan via eBay. It is a Canon 50mm f1.2 lens. It came with an origami crane - I used it together with some candles for this test shot. As you can see the lens is very soft wide open, and reasonably sharp in the center. Outside the center one can see chromatic aberration and a soft blur on bright objects. Depending on your taste this is nice or not so nice. I kind of like it, it gives the scene a personal touch.
I am looking forward to some more testing. I am wondering how this the lens performs not wide open, say at 2.8, and how portraits turn out with it.
This lens is not too big, has lots of glass, and is very heavy. In fact it weights more than my camera. Both together are 720 grams, camera body alone is 330 grams. This lens has pretty much the same size like the extended 16-50mm kit lens.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully pulled the curves.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC8783_hdr1bal1g
Häppy Holidays! Bokeh shot with Canon f1.2 vintage lens
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
I wish you all happy holidays! May the new year bring compassion, joy and success!
I just received a vintage lens that I bought from Japan via eBay. It is a Canon 50mm f1.2 lens. It came with an origami crane - I used it together with some candles for this test shot. As you can see the lens is very soft wide open, and reasonably sharp in the center. Outside the center one can see chromatic aberration and a soft blur on bright objects. Depending on your taste this is nice or not so nice. I kind of like it, it gives the scene a personal touch.
I am looking forward to some more testing. I am wondering how this the lens performs not wide open, say at 2.8, and how portraits turn out with it.
This lens is not too big, has lots of glass, and is very heavy. In fact it weights more than my camera. Both together are 720 grams, camera body alone is 330 grams. This lens has pretty much the same size like the extended 16-50mm kit lens.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully pulled the curves.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC8783_hdr1bal1g