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MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro. Delivers shots you just cannot get any other way, short of using a microscope.
135L - Perfect bokeh, sharp and fast, good stand-off distance for candids. I use it quite often for events here on campus.
How about magic lighting products? I think if my Mola Demi Beauty Dish in that way. :-)
But if we're talking about lenses, I suppose my 85L II has a somewhat magical quality about it.
I will concur with the first 2 lenses mentioned....the 300 f/2.8 and the 65 MP-E are both magical in their own way....I will add to that the 35mm f/1.4L: my magical low light lens...I love the sharpness, color and contrast. Images from this lens seem to process so nicely for me it definitely is "magical". I use it for family gatherings almost exclusively.
Lensbaby ! Just because it's fun, slows my photography down and has a very unique set of looks
I thought they were all magic.
Everyone I have made $100 bills disappear out of my wallet.
To the magical images they can produce;
I am not sure I agree with the 300mm f/2.8 L on the list, it has great resolution nice bokeh and produces a very nice picture. I don't see what I would think is magic but just great IQ.
I have never used the 65 MP-E so I can't speak to it. I know that the 180mm L Macro at times can produce an image that has a special (Magical) feel to it.
I am going to go with Joel with his 35mm suggestion. Used properly in the right situation the 35mm f/1.4L can produce some very magical pictures. From what I have seen many people that own this lens do not know where the magic lies and never pull it out.
If I had to pick one it would be the 35mm f/1.4L. It is the tools configuration itself that makes it great, our friends that have the Zeiss version may have a lens even more magical.
Hmmm. I don't own any of the lenses listed so far. I do have to say the 70-200 f2.8 II seems to have a bit of magic to it. Maybe others have a bit more but several images seem to be popping a lot more than I am used too.
I vote for the TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II. I know it's just optical physics rather than magic, but it can do amazing things with the focal plane that ordinary lenses can't.
The EF 200mm f2 L IS USM is just such a lens! It is a 200 f2, 280 f2.8, 400 f4, & to date the only 5 stop IS lens that Canon sells!
Will T.
I think of my Profoto Softbox in that way. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sean Setters
Then don't ever try the 200/2L, or you'll think your 85L is just another lens. I've rented the 200/2 three or four times, and each time I've come home with a gold mine of shots (candid portraits, indoor sports, outdoor "museum" stuff, nighttime long-distance architecture, outdoor sports).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sean Setters
You should stop renting it - buy it instead. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by peety3
B & H has a 200 f/1.8 on their used site... perhaps that would make the owners of the f/2.0 jealous. (perhaps not... I have no idea what it's IQ is like)
Bryan's review says that it's massively "front-heavy", making it awkward to hold. It's also not going to have the amazing IS unit found in the 200/2. Someone else said it's a five-stop unit, and although I think Canon claims it to be four-stop, I have several shots for which IS was quite the savior, including one of the Seattle Space Needle, shot from 1.25 miles away at 1.3x crop, with a shutter speed of 1/13 and I find it to be a rather impressive shot. If I remember my math correctly, that's 4.5 stops worth.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidEccleston
My 70-200 2.8L IS mk2 made images like I'd never seen, and could not get from my other lenses, and it is what tipped the scale and made me go full frame, really. I wanted to use it a lot more, but the effectively 112mm "wide end" on a crop body was awkward and not practical for casual/general shooting.
I am also really loving my new Sigma 35mm f/1.4 "Art". Excellent color, contrast and sharpness in a very usable focal length. I really like how at 35mm you still get a very usable DOF wide open at f/1.4, so you can easily get whole people and even little groups of them into focus at f/1.4, in dim lighting, without flash, and without high ISO's. I pull the images off the card and say WOW every time, so I think I am getting my money's worth.
85 1.2 for me.