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Seeking lens in the 85-100mm range
Act444:
My lens showed up today! Took some shots with it- seems to be a great lens but there is certainly a learning curve to macro photography, particularly when it's windy outside! :o
wickidwombat:
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--- Quote from: iaind on May 01, 2012, 02:37:15 PM ---Have a look at the 100 2.8LIS Macro
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+1. The 100mm macros would give you more creative flexibility for your foliage/flower shots than other choices. The 100L has IS and is more suited for general photography than the non L 100mm macro. I would not recommend any of the 85mm variants because portraiture is not your primary interest.
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+2 on this, while i really also recommend the sigma f1.4 85mm too i have both lenses and the 100 f2.8 macro is amazingly sharp and has the benefit of also being a macro lens so it can do alot
its super fast to focus and the IS on this is incredible, put it this way you can shoot at the same shutter speeds as the 85 f1.4 at 1.4 even though you are shooting at 2.8 (obviously this wont account for motion blur)
since you are shooting off a crop you arnt going to get the true benefits of an 85mm focal length lens so 85mm isnt going to give the same feeling it does on full frame.
both lenses are the smae price basically
the 100L also has weather sealing too which may be a consideration
It's well worth having a look at
pwp:
100L is macro. It's new. It's stellar. Fast AF. It has latest IS. It's sharp as.
People here like this lens for very valid reasons. Get one.
Paul Wright
FlowerPhotog:
If you are still considering the EF 100 2.0 lens, I have both it and the 100L. I bought the 100 2.0 a couple years ago as my first baby step up from EF-S lenses to use at the time on my t2i. I got it for the fast aperture and the good image quality that most of the reviewers noted. I have been extremely pleased with the image quality of the lens, it is virtually as sharp as the 100 2.8 L Macro and given the bigger aperture can even give you a better bokeh effect in some cases. I have seen some purple fringing on the edges of a few shots near wide open in high contrast areas but LR or DPP effectively removes that. One semi-drawback of the 100 2.0 is it's relatively long minimum focus distance (2.8'), but prior to getting the 100L Macro, I found using a set of Kenko extension tubes gave me a pretty good proxy for a macro lens, just no IS. After getting the 100 L Macro with it's great image stabilization system, I hadn't been using the 100 2.0 as much in mediocre lighting conditions due to my desire to keep the ISO lower on the t2i to minimize noise. As you can tell from my handle, I do a lot of flower photography and absent a tripod when in shady light, I didn't have quite steady enough hands to use the 100 2.0 at the stopped down apertures needed to get entire flowers in focus. In good light or with a tripod, however, I got some great shots with the 100 2.0, both semi-closeups and distant landscape shots. Now that I have a 5D Mark III, with its much much lower noise at higher ISO's , I find I am using the 2.0 in all lighting. The full format sensor is also providing even better bokeh on large aperture shots compared to what I got with the crop sensor t2i. Here's a hand held shot I took this evening with the 100 2.0 on my 5Dm3 in very poor light due to heavy overcast. Took it at f 2.0 , ISO was 800. This is a crop of about a half of the original frame.
Act444:
--- Quote ---If you are still considering the EF 100 2.0 lens, I have both it and the 100L. I bought the 100 2.0 a couple years ago as my first baby step up from EF-S lenses to use at the time on my t2i. I got it for the fast aperture and the good image quality that most of the reviewers noted. I have been extremely pleased with the image quality of the lens, it is virtually as sharp as the 100 2.8 L Macro and given the bigger aperture can even give you a better bokeh effect in some cases. I have seen some purple fringing on the edges of a few shots near wide open in high contrast areas but LR or DPP effectively removes that. One semi-drawback of the 100 2.0 is it's relatively long minimum focus distance (2.8'), but prior to getting the 100L Macro, I found using a set of Kenko extension tubes gave me a pretty good proxy for a macro lens, just no IS. After getting the 100 L Macro with it's great image stabilization system, I hadn't been using the 100 2.0 as much in mediocre lighting conditions due to my desire to keep the ISO lower on the t2i to minimize noise. As you can tell from my handle, I do a lot of flower photography and absent a tripod when in shady light, I didn't have quite steady enough hands to use the 100 2.0 at the stopped down apertures needed to get entire flowers in focus. In good light or with a tripod, however, I got some great shots with the 100 2.0, both semi-closeups and distant landscape shots. Now that I have a 5D Mark III, with its much much lower noise at higher ISO's , I find I am using the 2.0 in all lighting. The full format sensor is also providing even better bokeh on large aperture shots compared to what I got with the crop sensor t2i.
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Awesome, thanks for sharing your experience. Interesting to hear you mention that both 100s have similar sharpness levels- that's not what I saw when I tried them out a week ago...then again, the 100 2.0 lacks IS so perhaps that was part of the reason. Do/did you find the focus on the 100 2 relatively accurate/quick?
My primary use of the 100 2.0, like I mentioned, would be sports & fast-paced events where it would be impractical to take the 70-200 2.8 (or I REALLY need the extra stop). The 100L now fills the flower/macro/occasional portrait need. Since I'm using a 60D, 100mm would provide just enough reach provided I'm in the front/second row. I find it a bit long indoors, however. Got a 35mm and a 17-55 for that.
I just received the 100L today (as mentioned above) and tried it out. Seems to work great, although I probably should try again on a slightly calmer/sunnier day. Here's one shot I managed to get:
(EXIF: EOS 60D, 100L Macro, f11, 1/160s, ISO 2000)
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