Wallet full of $100 bills

[Jon Ruyle]

On the 5D2, people can easily mistake the photos for Medium Format film, because the DOF is so thin at such a wide angle of view -- except that you can do it in extremely low light, unlike film or those $20,000 MFDB.

I'm finally sold on the idea of fast wide lenses- for a long time I didn't really want one. But the picture in the press release for the Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 really convinced me of how the effect can be used to advantage (so I guess the picture really did it's job... only it made me want the canon 35 f/1.4 or 24 f/1.4, not the Zeiss). I've also been noticing the effect over and over in movies.

[Richard Lane]

John,


I think that the 5DII and the 135mm f/2L will be a very welcome addition to your kit. I can

[Daniel Browning]

I've also been noticing the effect over and over in movies.

I notice it more often in stills than movies -- although cinematographers have awesome lenses like the 14mm f/1.2 and 16mm f/1.2. Plus they can get even thinner DOF with anamorphics. (The distortion on the wide angle anamorphics is pretty bad, but for some movies, it's a a desired "look"). And of course there are the times when films actually shoot 5D2 cameras, like Iron Man. []