I also love Canon’s wide lenses. I have a few. I’m a street photographer so it makes sense. But Les makes me go on trips and shoot landscapes. I attended a conference that featured a woman landscape photographer from California who shot either very short or very long lenses and her work was beautiful. Remember those swamp landscapes of mine? Almost all were shot with Canon’s R 100-500 f/4.5-f/7.1 L. I wasn’t really trying to learn new tricks, I was just too lazy to change lenses in the middle of a swamp. But I remembered the amazing photographer from California who taught me something. I live at both ends of the focal length spectrum now.
forgot one really cheap thrill... or quite a few while we're on the subject of 135mm... any of the Nikon 135s, and ANY, FROM ANY YEAR Leica 135mm (plus they are tiny) I have one from the 60's that's amazing. All of them practically free...
It's still a bargain now, especially the unknown/unpopular lenses... that 200 L I spoke of is a bit more but still a steal. Here's a secret but don't share it too broadly the 180 Macro is the bargain of the century right now and THIS ONE especially that I've not yet purchased so don't push the price up too much before I get one... the 135/2L
Heh. I'm mostly a Nikon guy (from a Nikon family going back 60 years across 3 generations now, goodness...) but a friend gave me a Rebel EOS Kiss as a gag last month. I saw a 40 2.8 pop up for ~$55 and could not resist the little pancake. One day I reckon I'll snag a digi body when it pops up on marketplace locally, but until then rest assured it will not be me pushing up the EF prices!
I shot MANY, MANY Nikon film cameras, I have more than 3 dozen right now AND I love some of the manual focus glass... especially all of their 28mm lenses (their 35's were nothing to write home about) but... honestly Canon blew the crap out of them starting in the 90's with the EF mount. Even in the wide department in which they ruled...
Yea, Canon certainly dominated the 90s and 00s. Though, I always stand by my still workhorse in the Nikkor 24-70g. Also the 80-200 ED still comes to fashion week on a second body. Canon was across the board rocking then in the workspace. Nikon did have some bits and pieces that sailed far above everything else. Funny enough, I keep telling folks that the nikkor 35.8 Dx is perhaps the most underrated lens of all time. Must've made more than 10,000,000 of them, too. Canon was winning the working pro and Nikon was winning the Costco shopper. Now, you can't go to a garage sale without there being a nikkor 18-55 lens kit lens lol. It's wild where we are at now, too. Nikon looks like they have finally come back around ready to grab more market share again.
Might surprise you to know but I shot a 3 year project using an FE and a Df with ONLY a 28mm Non-AI 28mm/3.5 lens which I LOVED the look of due to the OOF areas enhanced by the focus field curvature and simple design (but revolutionary at the time). Yes it renders colors strange in the corners but the project was B/W so who cares... I love my 21mm Leica 3.4 for the same reasons in B/W on digital or film.
Given I'm a low ISO/Very conservative shooter (I shoot everything as if I were shooting film) and I kinda like a bit of grain at high ISO I LOVE the handling of the 5D cameras and as soon as I had 10 stops of dynamic range I was (and still am) good to go... for anything. I kind of prioritize handling and "feel" above all else in cameras... and of course the way pictures look. I'm lazy, I am very much shoot/done kind of photographer. I never have futzed about with pictures that don't look good on a contact sheet/slide or on the back of the camera.
The few Awagami papers I use always give me way more than I expect. As you say, ya gotta match the image to the paper. What amazed me when I made my very first print was how well the awagami icc worked with my Epson P900. Screen to paper—boom!
I also love Canon’s wide lenses. I have a few. I’m a street photographer so it makes sense. But Les makes me go on trips and shoot landscapes. I attended a conference that featured a woman landscape photographer from California who shot either very short or very long lenses and her work was beautiful. Remember those swamp landscapes of mine? Almost all were shot with Canon’s R 100-500 f/4.5-f/7.1 L. I wasn’t really trying to learn new tricks, I was just too lazy to change lenses in the middle of a swamp. But I remembered the amazing photographer from California who taught me something. I live at both ends of the focal length spectrum now.
I certainly think many of those swamp photos benefited greatly from that "laziness".
It's a bummer to see EF creeping back up these days. All of the 2000s stuff was out for a steal, if you looked around enough.
forgot one really cheap thrill... or quite a few while we're on the subject of 135mm... any of the Nikon 135s, and ANY, FROM ANY YEAR Leica 135mm (plus they are tiny) I have one from the 60's that's amazing. All of them practically free...
It's still a bargain now, especially the unknown/unpopular lenses... that 200 L I spoke of is a bit more but still a steal. Here's a secret but don't share it too broadly the 180 Macro is the bargain of the century right now and THIS ONE especially that I've not yet purchased so don't push the price up too much before I get one... the 135/2L
Heh. I'm mostly a Nikon guy (from a Nikon family going back 60 years across 3 generations now, goodness...) but a friend gave me a Rebel EOS Kiss as a gag last month. I saw a 40 2.8 pop up for ~$55 and could not resist the little pancake. One day I reckon I'll snag a digi body when it pops up on marketplace locally, but until then rest assured it will not be me pushing up the EF prices!
I shot MANY, MANY Nikon film cameras, I have more than 3 dozen right now AND I love some of the manual focus glass... especially all of their 28mm lenses (their 35's were nothing to write home about) but... honestly Canon blew the crap out of them starting in the 90's with the EF mount. Even in the wide department in which they ruled...
Yea, Canon certainly dominated the 90s and 00s. Though, I always stand by my still workhorse in the Nikkor 24-70g. Also the 80-200 ED still comes to fashion week on a second body. Canon was across the board rocking then in the workspace. Nikon did have some bits and pieces that sailed far above everything else. Funny enough, I keep telling folks that the nikkor 35.8 Dx is perhaps the most underrated lens of all time. Must've made more than 10,000,000 of them, too. Canon was winning the working pro and Nikon was winning the Costco shopper. Now, you can't go to a garage sale without there being a nikkor 18-55 lens kit lens lol. It's wild where we are at now, too. Nikon looks like they have finally come back around ready to grab more market share again.
Might surprise you to know but I shot a 3 year project using an FE and a Df with ONLY a 28mm Non-AI 28mm/3.5 lens which I LOVED the look of due to the OOF areas enhanced by the focus field curvature and simple design (but revolutionary at the time). Yes it renders colors strange in the corners but the project was B/W so who cares... I love my 21mm Leica 3.4 for the same reasons in B/W on digital or film.
Given I'm a low ISO/Very conservative shooter (I shoot everything as if I were shooting film) and I kinda like a bit of grain at high ISO I LOVE the handling of the 5D cameras and as soon as I had 10 stops of dynamic range I was (and still am) good to go... for anything. I kind of prioritize handling and "feel" above all else in cameras... and of course the way pictures look. I'm lazy, I am very much shoot/done kind of photographer. I never have futzed about with pictures that don't look good on a contact sheet/slide or on the back of the camera.
The few Awagami papers I use always give me way more than I expect. As you say, ya gotta match the image to the paper. What amazed me when I made my very first print was how well the awagami icc worked with my Epson P900. Screen to paper—boom!