itreviews.com Updated: 2013-12-15 01:35:15
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The Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM ($1,089 direct) is a prime lens for Canon cameras with a focal length that is traditionally useful for portraiture. Of course, you won’t be limited to that purpose when shooting with the lens; it does double duty as a medium-te...
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The Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM is a classic portrait lens with sharp optics and an impressive aperture, but it's not optically stabilized...
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The Canon EF 135mm f/2 L USM is one of the medium tele lenses in the Canon lineup and a member of Canons prestigious "L" (Luxury) class. A few years ago we performed a test in the APS-C scope already and it turned out to be a superb performer here so...
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The Canon EF 135mm f/2 USM L is a highly desirable lens with excellent performance figures in most aspects. It is very sharp and contrasty straight from f/2 and its outstanding at f/5.6. The bokeh is exceptionally smooth and buttery at f/2 and f/2.8...
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(From Canon lens literature) The fastest 135mm telephoto lens in its class. Ideal for indoor sports and portraits with background blur. Two UD-glass elements correct secondary spectrum for outstanding sharpness and color. Test NotesAs the reader review...
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It is very sharp, it is very fast, it is very well built and it is one of the least expensive L lenses Canon makes. It is the highly regarded Canon EF 135mm f/2.0 L USM Lens. If 135mm is the focal length you need, you will not be disappointed by the Ca...
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Canon 135mm f/2 L EF L USM (1996-today)© 2011 KenRockwell.com. All rights reserved. Canon EF 135mm f/2 L USM (72mm filters, 0.9m/3' close-focus, 25.0 oz./708g, .) . This free website's biggest source of is when you use , especially...
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The Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM ($1,089 direct)%displayPrice% at %seller% is a prime lens for Canon cameras with a focal length that is traditionally useful for portraiture. Of course, you won't be limited to that purpose when shooting with the lens; it does...
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Quite sharp. Minimal distortion. Wide aperture.
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Lacks optical stabilization...
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The Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM is a classic portrait lens with sharp optics and an impressive aperture, but it's not optically stabilized...
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The EF 135/2L USM is very sharp wide open. Doing resolution tests (slanted target) you can see that resolution in fact peaks between f4 and f5.6, but on real world images you'd have a hard time seeing the difference. The images below are 100% crops taken...
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The fast f2 aperture can even blur out backgrounds which are quite close to the main subjectThe EF 135/2L USM is one of Canon's best lenses. For an "L" series lens it's reasonably priced at less than $1000 and its optical performance is excellent. It work...
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With a full-frame 18-Mpix CMOS sensor and twin Digic 5+ processers that's capable of continuous bursts of up 12 fps – the fastest of any professional DSLR currently - the Canon EOS-1 Dx is the firm's flagship press camera. We've assessed it with over 100...
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In the first part of our comprehensive lens recommendations for the new entry-level Canon EOS Rebel T5 / 1200D, we've assessed a raft of primes from both the maker and third parties to see how well they perform on the camera. As well as highlighting the b...
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This is the first of a three part series on choosing suitable lenses for Canon's entry-level full frame camera, the EOS 6D. The 20-Mpix CMOS' sensor used is similar in architecture to that in Canon's hugely popular full-frame EOS 5D Mk III, a camera that...
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In the lead up to Photokina 2012, Canon announced the new Canon EOS 6D full-frame entry-point model within days of Nikon publicizing their most-affordable full-frame camera to date, the 24-Mpix D600. While the EOS 6D boasted some attention grabbing featur...
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However, will a lens, designed to cooperate with a roll of photographic film, manage to cooperate well with digital detectors? The 135 mm focal length is a portrait classic but only on full frame. Nowadays Canon full frame reflex cameras have as many as 2...
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high build quality, excellent image quality in the frame centre, very good image quality on the edge of the frame, chromatic aberration amounting to zero, imperceptible distortion, splendidly corrected coma, negligible astigmatism, low vignetting on the A...
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resolution on the edge of full frame at the maximum relative aperture a bit below decency level, huge vignetting on full frame by f/2.0, work against bright light could have been better.
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