Totally love the Canon 50 1,2

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A fellow member here kindly sold me this lens, and after trying it for a couple of weeks on vacation, I have to say I'm totally loving it on the RD1s!
Not for the sharpness purist I guess, but a combination of glow and very slightly soft-focus and (imo) really nice oof makes it a total winner for me.

Took quite a few shots - a few when we stopped by some friends on the way in Sweden, and then the rest in Copenhagen and Hornbaek - and I really loved all of them! Just three almost at random - from the beginning and end of the trip, which show some of the characteristics.

If your browser doesn't support ICC-profiles (sRGB for printing) the images might look washed-out, but I love the color-rendition and low contrast. These are totally unPhotoshopped other than converting from the tiffs and resized for print, then resized again and sharpened for web.

Really glad I got this and grateful to the kind seller - the perfect vacation lens!
 

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Nice results, I'd love to try the lens on a digital sensor....! :)

Here's another, BW400CN

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I really like the one with the glass of wine, and the portrait too. It's true that the soft focus gives it a real character. Nice that you're enjoing it Mani, and knowing how to take out its particularities.
I love also the beautifull RD1 colours!
 
Great shots - I really like mine as well - they are great lenses. Some people get bad copies of them or just plain can't focus it wide open - and give this lens a poor review. However a good copy in right hands can be an awsome tool:
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I love my Canon 50/1.2. It was a messed up lens at start, but Don Goldberg brought it back to life. An internal element had moved, and he rearranged it to give great results.
 
santi-u said:
I really like the one with the glass of wine, and the portrait too. It's true that the soft focus gives it a real character. Nice that you're enjoing it Mani, and knowing how to take out its particularities.
I love also the beautifull RD1 colours!
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Thanks again Santi!

For me, these sorts of images are perfect for vacations - instead of sharply recording a building or a landscape, I prefer images that suggest a memory or a moment shared with others. Then it can be something simple (or even rather too 'pretty' or 'romantic' like the glass of wine for instance), but I like them because they remind me of the last dinner we had in a garden in Denmark before the long drive back to Stockholm the next day.

Incidentally, I also totally love Denmark! Copenhagen is all the things I truly wish that Stockholm was. I know their society has its problems, but the beauty, friendliness, food-culture, lovely bars and cafés and restaurants and museums; the great appreciation of beauty and design in every detail; all of these things I truly love about the country. If only I could understand the Danes when they speak to me in Danish, the way they understand my Swedish - then I'd move to Copenhagen tomorrow! :)
 
Hi Mani, as a super fast lens and bokeh lover i think you are, maybe you will like to see this photostream flickr user. Its incredible the gear this guy has and the excellent shots and control of dof and bokeh.
i like very much how he uses film emulsions either digital with great results. Some fo the digital ones seem film, i don't know what kind of PS process he uses, maybe special plugins.

I don't know if you already knew him but if not here it is. Hope you like it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moaan/
 
santi-u said:
Hi Mani, as a super fast lens and bokeh lover i think you are, maybe you will like to see this photostream flickr user. Its incredible the gear this guy has and the excellent shots and control of dof and bokeh.
i like very much how he uses film emulsions either digital with great results. Some fo the digital ones seem film, i don't know what kind of PS process he uses, maybe special plugins.

I don't know if you already knew him but if not here it is. Hope you like it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moaan/
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Ah yes! He is a master!
I'm embarrassed at liking this stuff - in my 20s I was all about gritty imagery, and shaky camera blur and weird angles - I even did two album covers in that style based on images I shot from moving-car windows driving in the States.
Now I've settled down a bit I like bokeh and pictures of blossom.

Who knows, maybe I'll have a middle-aged crisis sometime and go back to punk? :)
 
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