A few days ago I rented some camera equipment and my friend Matt and I went out to experiment with it. I wrote a little review on the equipment I used, scroll to the bottom of the post!
The equipement I rented was a Canon 45mm f2.8 Tilt/shift lens and a Canon 85mm f1.2 lens. Both are AMAZING lenses. I suggest all photographers should use them at least once. I was sold on both after the engagement shoot I had that night.
Canon 45mm f2.8 Tilt/Shift.
This is an amazingly addicting lens. It is a manual focus lens so its all up to you if you are going to get your subject in focus. Once you get familiar with the lens is really easy to use. This tilt/shift look is very popular right now, but could fall under a trend. What I was most surprised about was how amazing the color was with this lens. I strongly recommend at least renting this lens, although you will probably just want to buy it if you do.
Canon 85mm f1.2
This lens is epic. It’s big, the glass is huge and you feel awesome using it. Colors, DOF, and focus are amazing. For single subject portraits this could possibly be the best lens created. To me it is very similar in look, feel and output to canons 50mm f1.2. The ONLY problem (although kind of a big problem) is how slow it focuses. If you are crazy and can manually focus everything then put this in your shopping cart right now and purchase it. If you are like me, and rely on auto focus you might want to try out the 50mm f1.2 canon sells. It focuses faster and has close to the same image output. But in my personal opinion, 85L > 50L.
Hope this helped or at least was interesting to read!
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