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Best Canon L lenses 4 RED

Ketch Rossi

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Hi all,

well since this thread was revived out of no were, hehe I'll update it with pleasure.


I currently have a Canon eos 1Ds mark III, a very demanding camera on lenses do to its FF sensor, anyway.

In my experience, now updated from the original, this is what I believe today:


CANON EF PRIME LENSES:



Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye: This lens is the fastest Fisheye lens to be use on a 35mm SLR and produces great images very easy to correct in rect. and is incredibly sharp, fun and creative to use.

Canon EF 14mm f/2.8 L II: This new replacement lens is exceptionally good, very sharp, vignetting and CA incredibly well controlled for a lens this wide, and Canon unfortunately has been known for not been very good with wide angles, but this one Shines!

Canon EF 24mm f/1.4 L II: This lens is about to become available, but I already know from fellow photographers which have been part of the Canon testing team, that this lens is a fantastic replacement of the 24L I.

Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM: This lens is the absolute best wide angle lens, very fast, very sharp, no cromatich aberration and no flare.

Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM: This lens is second to none in this focal lenght, super fast, fantastic sharpness, cromatich wath? This lens performance is matched only by my other lens the:

Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM: This lens not only is super fast and sharp as a razor but it has a boquet that is just movie like, a bit heavy lens because of so much glass but worted carryng.

Canon EF 135mm f/2.0L USM: This lens has also an icredible and beautifull boquet, and it is considered the best telephoto lens not only by me, the colors and the back blurr to die for.

Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L: This Macro lens is just amazing, very slow, but image quality is great, and the level of detail it produces is just beautiful.

Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM: This lens comes very close to the telephoto super quality of the 135, and gives a bit more distance for a more pronaunce boquet, also is more forgivness for protrait shoots.

Canon EF 200mm f/2.0L IS: This is surely become my absolute best and most favorite lens, it is BIG! But if you can carry the weight the rewards will be fantastic, the Bokeh this lens produces wide open are just stunning as I have ever seen!

Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS: This lens is of size and weight similar to the 200 above, not as fast but and there for the Bokeh differs but it is helped by the additional 100mm and at 2.8 is still very fast, great lens.\, one of the sharpest super telephotos.

Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS: This one is just a monster of a lens not only it is the king of the photography world but it acts like one, beside benn super heavy, it is just a marvelous piece of glass, lots of glass, quality in color, sharpness, boquet, speed and flare controll are just amezing.

Have not used the EF 500mm, EF 6000mm and the new EF 800mm, but to what I have seen from fellow photographers this Super Telephotos series are all equally good, just much slower.

Also I use this lenses with magnifing glass, stunning.


Canon EF Zoom lenses:

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5: This little baby, is an amazing lens and after the 15mm Fisheye, I think is the only other lens that I will not esitate using on any shoot, just that good.

Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L II: this new replacement lens is great from 16 to 24 but a bit soft from 24 to 35, still a great wide angle zoom.

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4. L: This one is a bit slow but still talked and compared to the newer zooms, and yes is that good, and very sharp, just a bit slow.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L: This lens is one of the most popular zooms among Street and Portrait Photographers and well know for its 3D look.

Canon EF 70-200mm L ALL MODELS, IS AND NONE IS: This lenses are the absolute most popular ones on the line of CAnon EF lenses and it is for a reason, they are just fantastic lenses, and are superior to any other zoom.

They are for sure other great lenses in the Canon EF line, but none will match the image quality of the above mentioned, and remember if this lenses have been performing great on a FF will perform stunningly well on the Cropped sensor of the RED ONE!

The Red for me it is a very special arrival, I imagine it is the same for each one of you, but I died once without the possibilytie to make my dream project, so now in this second chance to life thanks to Jim and the RED camera I will have my shoot on making my only dream come true.

See you all at NAB, will be there 16-20, also I like to give the opportunity to those close to me to come and try the lenses for them selfs if they wish to, and you are welcome to request specific test of this lenses.

Ciao


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Hi Andrew,

Good links, form my self I prefer to stay less technical and more ands on image it self, i will soon do same shoots with all my lenses and post them so you guys can make your decision based on the quality of the photos and not to a multitude of specs that not all of as can understend or care to.

I respect all of those wich do care and fallow the lines of B&W, I my self have no time for it, so I go streit to shoot and see the resolt and adjust acordingly.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI
 
Hi KETCH. Eric at Birger Enginering will be at NAB so try and get to speak to him. This is exciting stuff with what looks like great lenses.

A big thanks to our lens maestro Evin, you are so informative/helpful:biggrin:


Mike the beginner
 
KETCH ROSSI said:
Hi Andrew,

Good links, form my self I prefer to stay less technical and more ands on image it self, i will soon do same shoots with all my lenses and post them so you guys can make your decision based on the quality of the photos and not to a multitude of specs that not all of as can understend or care to.
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Ketch, at minimum take one or two pictures on each lenses of high contrast objects.
Snow, mountains, buildings with vertical high contrast features, inside church or castle.
Taking the pictures of the trees (green on green) or full of green parks is difficult to evaluate.
Skeen tones and blue sky together is always good.
Don’t forget about far ends of the frame and corners, get some high contrast details there.
 
Hi Mike,

Thanks, I will definitely want to talk to them, Canon for me is the only ansewr, anless I refinance the house and get 3 Arri/Zeiss or 3 Cookes.


Andrew, I will take and post as many shoots as I can, just give me some time to finish anpacking, still finishing up my new home, but I will take sevedrall variation to show B&W's, contrasts of color in different day time to consider the kelvin variation given by the change of the sun and I will try to get heavy contrast in colors and back grounds, like flowers, palm trees, grass against flowers, home structured landscaping with lite color configurations and so on, trust me wen I say you all will love the resolts of this lenses, trully the only better resolts you can get is with the S35's from Arri/Zeiss or Cooke's, but the price tag is up to 10 times that of the best Canon L lenses like the ones I have, aside the $6,500.00 EF 400mm f/2.8L USM, so lets hope and push the solution for the use of this lenses with our Red's.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI
 
My Choice - and one question:

My Choice - and one question:

I really hope that birger will make us happy very soon - for me canon
is lens heaven..

I allready have the 24-105 4 L and i plan to buy the following three lenses:

14mm 2.8 L
35mm 1.4 L
200mm 2.8 L

any coments on that? i have no clue about the sharpnes and color of the 14mm

ok now my question:

am i correct with my calculation: i'm deviding the view-angle stated by canon by
1.6 and i'll get the resulting angle for the red sensor? (i have a 10D DSLR (22,7 x 15,1 mm)
> pretty close to the size of the mysterium (at least horizontally and in 35mm mode)...

thanks for any hint

martin
 
Smartin said:
I really hope that birger will make us happy very soon - for me canon
is lens heaven..

I allready have the 24-105 4 L and i plan to buy the following three lenses:

14mm 2.8 L
35mm 1.4 L
200mm 2.8 L

any coments on that? i have no clue about the sharpnes and color of the 14mm

ok now my question:

am i correct with my calculation: i'm deviding the view-angle stated by canon by
1.6 and i'll get the resulting angle for the red sensor? (i have a 10D DSLR (22,7 x 15,1 mm)
> pretty close to the size of the mysterium (at least horizontally and in 35mm mode)...

thanks for any hint

martin
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Hi Mrtin,

the 14mm is a great lens but not as should be for the price tag it carries, some problems with this lens is on the flaring and not being very sharp at corners, this still remaines a great super wide angle lens for any digital camera in the eos body, excluding the 5D, 1DIII and 1DSII, for this cameras the lens is put to the test and again the performance for the money it is not in the best score in its favor, a second generation it is do shortly so do not by the 14mm now, I my self got the 12-24 second generation from Sigma, great lens, some photos are do nex weeck on my web site: www.KETCHFRAME.com, I will be shoting also the 35mm f/14L,
the 50mm f/1.2L, the 85mm f/1.2L II, the 135mm f/2.0, the 200mm f/2.8L II and the 400mm f/2.8L so check them out soon I hope to have them up before NAB.

The 35mm f/1.4L is a perfect peace of glass I love this one and you will see it soon, so get this one no doubt.

The 200mm f/2.8L you must get the second generation the 200mm f/2.8L II, a fantastic telephoto lens, a boquet that will give any model in front of it a pleasing look, so also get this one.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI
 
Thanks!

Thanks!

well - ok - what better alternative would there be if i wanna have more
then 100° fied of view? (not even the 14mm get's close there..)

did you think anout the angle-conversion? i calculated a 71° angle for the 14mm on the mysterium chip... (?)

looking forward to your testshoots.. thanks
martin
 
Hi Martin,

at this time the alternative and best superwide angle lenses for Canon Ef are the Sigma 8mm EX DG for Canon Ef 35mm, the 12-24mm also by Sigma or the Canon 15mm fisheye, you will see test on bowth of them soon.

The Sigma 8mm fisheye has 180 degrees

The Sigma 12-24mm rect. has 122-84.1 degrees

The Canon 15mm fisheye has also 180 degrees

The absolute best in superwide angle are the destorted fisheyes 8 and 15mm, but you have to be willing to do some post.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI
 
The only other lens I would add to this list is the 200 1.8 which I use all the time for indoor sports/no flash. I too swear by the 35 1.4, 50 1.2, 85 1.2, 135 2.0, as well as my favorite 200 1.8 sometimes in combination with an extender 1.4x where you only lose 1 stop and get almost a 300. I've spoken with Erik of berger Eng. through email and we should get together with him at NAB. He will be there with some announcement in support of the Canon EF lenses.
 
KETCH ROSSI said:
Hi Ronnie,
this sounds good, lets try to shoot for the day to see each other at NAB, if the use of this lenses becomes possible it will be great especially now that I do not think buyng any cooke's or Arri/zeiss lenses.
Ciao,
KETCH ROSSI
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Hi Ketch,

I will look for you and Erik at NAB. I will be there Early Monday morning and will stay until Tuesday evening. Hopefully there is a res holder's gathering place so I can find you easier. I'll be holding my R - this should narrow it down to about 1000 people. :ph34r:
 
Hi Ronnie,

Well is 1,475 to be exact, or I believe it is, I will be wearing the KETCHFRAME pass card, easy to spot and I hope that tere will be a gatering some were for as to meet each other and talk about our projects, also check out my tread on Offtopics about ligths"FILMGEAR VS. ARRI... there is if you are in need of lights in the future shoots with your RED.

And yes the EF 200mm f/1.8L is a fantastic lens, I do not have one but if I was to find one for sale I will by for sure.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI
 
i have a canon 200mm f1.8, and it is a phenomenal lens. its reputation is well-deserved. i have the canon 70-200mm f2.8 as well, and it is always a challenge to decide which lens to bring, trading portability for enhanced image quality is never easy. i can walk around a 70-200 but forget working the big prime lens without a stabilizer.

i too am very interested in what birger engineering has up its sleeve. i gave some consideration to swapping out all of my canon still gear for nikon still gear, but if the EOS hack works out, i may not have to...keeping my fingers crossed.
 
KETCH ROSSI said:
Birger and RED have made an agreement, so there will be soon an electronic controlled EOS mount!http://www.KETCHFRAME.com
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Time sure does fly... ;)

Ketch, are there any new/other lenses you would add to your very helpful list of Canon lenses.

And given the IMS solution, are there any non-Canon lenses that you would add to the mix?
 
The best Canon L lens is the lens that you can use today on RED:

Canon 50 mm f/1.2 FD L Tungsten light test - IMS on RED ONE>>>

IMS_Canon50mmFD_L_01.jpg

The Vienna Secession Building shot on RED at a night available light using Canon 50 mm f/1.2 FD L lens on IMS mount, at wide open f/1.2, 320 ASA,
K 3200, shutter speed 1/32, Color Space: RED Space, LUT/Output Gamma: RED Space, processed and rendered as QT H264 in RED Alert, no any CC applied.


IMS_Canon50mmFD_L_02.jpg

Canon 50 mm f/1.2 FD L lens on RED ONE with IMS mount.


The Vienna Secession Building 2K short video>>>
 
Canon L Zoom lenses

Canon L Zoom lenses

Does any one have views on the following lenses and suitability for use with Birger mount.

16-35 f2.8 MK2
24-70 f2.8
70-200 f2.8

Sigma 12-24

Im also interested in the Viewfactor Impero control system with the birger mount and the Canon Zooms.

thanks for the advice.

Dave
UK
 
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