New Canon Lens

[huntnphool]

I'm so excited!!!!  I just won a new Canon lens on eBay and can't wait to get it. I have been bidding for a few months now on a particular model lens that just keeps getting a tad too expensive to justify. Tonight someone put won up for bid 5 minutes before I checked and not knowing what they were selling put a ridiculously low "buy it now" on it. I scooped it up and paid right away

 I will post picks of it when it arrives, I cant wait!!!

[muleysgirl13]

What is it... im dieing for a new one for my canon but its just not really in the cards financially right now

[huntnphool]

its a 55mm 1.2, very fast lens

[boneaddict]

He's been working on "neak up on em" skills.

Dang, I was hoping you nailed a DO

[PacificNWhunter]

Congrats phool! Look forward to the pic's in the future

[Slider]

He's been working on "neak up on em" skills.

Dang, I was hoping you nailed a DO

me 2!!!

[tlbradford]

Very nice.  I have been looking at the "off" brands like Rokker and Minolta and trying to decide if it is worth the trouble of figuring how to mount them to the Canon.  I need a lens like that for the kids photos, to justify to my wife why I bought an expensive camera.  Of course the real reason is to be out in the woods with the camera.

[huntnphool]

I need a lens like for the kids photos

Well at 55mm I wont be taking many outdoor shots with it unless its flora or close critters. Its will mainly be used for home type pics, the beauty is I can shoot fast shutter speeds at very low light without a flash. Pope has one of these lenses and when he showed me its capabilties while moose hunting I knew I had to have one. The focal length on it is amazing as well, maybe we could get Pope to post a couple pics with his on here to show an example?

[popeshawnpaul]

F1.2 is kind of dreamy.  It gives that soft shallow depth of field that great people photos turn out well with.  This is the type of lens where you shoot a photo of someone and their eyes are infocus but the tip of their nose is blurry.  The depth of field is that shallow.  You can shoot this thing at night on iso 3200 and get results.  Here are some samples.

[boneaddict]

Did you have to use Mrays face as an example......kid yes, thats cute but MRay.

Is this a good macro lens?

[popeshawnpaul]

Yes and no Bone.  It was amazing before I ground down the mount for infinity focus.  I lost close close macro focus when i did it but I gained infinity focus.  I should have two of them, one for macro and one for infinity focus. 

[huntnphool]

thanks for the examples Shawn, those really show its capabilities I hate waiting for new toys to show up in the mail

[M_ray]

kid yes, thats cute but MRay.

Comon Bone M_ray is cute like a kid still ... no? 

[mossback91]

kid yes, thats cute but MRay.

Comon Bone M_ray is cute like a kid still ... no? 

thats a big NO

[JoeVon]

That little girl makes me smile, what a cutey!