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The Canon EF 50mm f/1.0L

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Who Dey
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<div id="attachment_18377" style="width: 441px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.canonrumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015-01-19-13.22.201.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-18377"><img class="wp-image-18377 size-medium" src="http://www.canonrumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015-01-19-13.22.201-431x575.jpg" alt="Canon EF 50mm f/1.0L" width="431" height="575" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Canon EF 50mm f/1.0L</p></div>
<p>I finally own the Canon EF 50mm f/1.0L lens. It’s a lens I have wanted for a long time, but I had a hard time justifying the investment required to own a lens that is less than perfect. It’s not the sharpest, it doesn’t autofocus all that quickly and Canon no longer services it, yet I still wanted to own one because it’s so unique and produces a wonderful image in the right circumstances.</p>
<p>This lens was introduced in 1989 and has since gone up significantly in value. You can see these lens retail for more than $4000 on the used market.</p>
<p><strong>Description

</strong><em>“An ultra-fast standard lens with the largest aperture for SLR lenses in the world at the time. Two large-diameter ground and polished glass aspherical lens elements (3rd & 8th) provide high-contrast with low-flare image quality even at maximum aperture. Curvature of field is minimized through use of four high-refraction glass elements. Spherical aberration and curvature of field at close focusing distance are minimized by floating mechanism. A ring USM (Ultrasonic Motor) achieves silent, high-speed AF and full-time manual focusing.” <a href="http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/lens/ef/data/standard/ef_50_10l_usm.html" target="_blank">Read more at the Canon Museum</a></em><strong>

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<p>This is a lens that still gets talked about a lot. Likely because it’s so unique and there’s something about that nice and clean f/1.0 number and the dreamy bokeh it produces. I am going to try and do a review of the lens for fun, but it will require me actually getting good images with it. No brick walls or cats (I don’t have cat)!</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">c</span>r</strong></p>
 
You need to get a cat...they're the only subject worthy of such a lens.

I wonder if Sigma is planning a 0.95 (or maybe a 0.75 to be the fastest ever) just to stake the claim?
 
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TAF said:
I wonder if Sigma is planning a 0.95 (or maybe a 0.75 to be the fastest ever) just to stake the claim?
Wouldn't make much sense with current sensors not being able to properly use light from extreme angles.
Anything much wider than f/1.4 isn't really worth the manufacturing and designing effort, it appears.
 
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