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Category: Photography
List Price: $1,500.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Maximum Focal Length: 135
Minimum Focal Length: 135
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 5.4
MPN: 2320A004
Model: 2520A004
UPC: 082966213328
EAN: 0082966213328
ASIN: B000053HC5
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Surprised April 5, 2006
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
Despite reading glowing reviews about this lens, I was still surprised to see how well it performed. The lens is SO sharp you can get very good cropped pictures of running athletes, from a distance of three quarters of a Football field away, shooting hand held, with late afternoon light, which will print a 5x7 and still look like a Pro took them!
If you want a tack sharp lens for indoor sports pictures and can't afford, or otherwise do not want another long lens for outdoor sports pictures, then you should give this lens your serious consideration.
135 f2 is amazing January 10, 2006
71 out of 73 found this review helpful
Everyone gives this lens a rave so maybe i should approach this terrific lens from a shooting POV.
Shooting wide open at f2at 135 gives your pictures a distinct quality you would never get from zooms, there isn't a zoom at this focal length that is this speed either. A few primes come close but they're nowhere near as sharp wide open.
the af is fast and very accurate and the lens has a great feel on a 20d/5d/10d body even wo the battery grip of the cameras.
Close up magnification of .19x to.21 therabouts is a nice bonus of this lens, letting you get closer wo being too in your face for tight headshots.
I always felt that photographers usually have a sweet spot when shooting certain things like some portrait photographers like the distance the 85mm gives them when approaching a subject, turns out I'm liking the 135 focal length quite a bit for headshots and the 85 for torso and head shots.
One thing I like about this 135/f2 combo is that there's enough DOF to get most of the main subject in view and focus but the background will still be blurred out. It's really great when you want the subject in focus and nothing else, as opposed to the 85 1.2 parts of the subject could melt into the background resulting in images that be a little too ethreal for some tastes. Couldn't you just stop down the 85? Sure but the relationship of the foreground to background would still be different with the 135.
The 135 f2 can give a result that's juuust right. The backgrounds just a little more compressed with the foreground but the foreground is sharp but the background is gone. Almost like you lurred the background in photoshop. But you'll never get the same results from blurring in photoshop, for one thing the highlights would get muddied in a blur treatment in PS while the highlights stay clean at f2.
Don't just use this thing for portraits, use it the way you would use a 50mm and try and frame as such, again the focal lenth and wide aperture will give an interesting result. I basically use it for candids and portraits during a wedding.
Fantastic lens, very sharp, very handholdable, the focal length is terrific for portraits and the bokeh is very beautiful, equal in sharpness to the 85 1.2 or any of Canon's $5k lenses. This is probably the best lens you can get for the price, the only lens I've used with better saturation and contrast is the 35 1.4L.
Downside: Not as handholdable as the 50,35 1.4 or the 85 1.2 during low light situations due to it's focal length.
Quality lens - 135mm f/2L January 10, 2006
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
At a recent NYE event, I shot a lot of photos in a concert setting without a flash and am very impressed with the sharpness & clarity of this lens performance. Its so fast and the colors are vibrant. I am not a seasoned pro but with the 20D and this lens, it makes me look pretty close. I did shoot in manual and once I got my aperture & shutter speed dialed in, it pumped out a lot of great pics.
I have also shot some pics of waterfalls (slowing down my shutter speed to get that soft flowing image) and portraits of people and again, it oozed excellence. The 135mm focal range is not as convenient as a zoom, but the quality of this prime lens makes up for any incovenience.
Super Sharp!!! January 6, 2006
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
If you don't want to get hooked on canon L series lens, do not buy this one. I made a mistake of buying one and now all I want are L canon lens. It is super sharp, contrast and saturation is fantastic. No need to retouch any of your photos. So far, I've used it on candid shots of my kids and dance gigs. f/2.0 helps a lot to get the right shutter speed to freeze action. A very good buy. I got mine here at Amazon.
One of the best lens in it's class August 24, 2005
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
Man. what a lens!!! It's not cheap, and I dont' find the 135mm to be a particularly useful focal length with my 20D but after seeing glowing reviews of this one both at [...], I decided to buy one and try it for myself. It's not cheap at $900, but it's worth every penny. This one is an absolute stunner. I cannot believe my eyes at the sharpness at f2 and it improves very little when stopped down. The bokeh is unbelievable!!! I dont' hesitate to shoot at f2 and I don't find it necessary to stop down just to increase sharpness. The size and build is perfect although I don't like Canon's hood design. Why can't they simply make the hood with the same crincked finish of the lens?? Then they would not so easily scratch. It's beyond me. But that's not a problem with the lens itself and whenever I use this lens, I know I have one of the best lenses ever designed. It forces me to excel myself knowing that now,the only limitation is me, the photographer and not the camera or the lens. An absolute beauty. Go try it yourself. I try to shoot with this as much as possible and the results are stunning. I just wish it came with weather proofing and Image Stablization like Canon's modern lenses but that's just nitpicking. I love it as it is.
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