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Why I love the 135mm f2 from Canon - Lens Review -

This video is a review of the Canon 135mm f2L lens with examples hey today I wanted to make a video about one of my favorite lenses the Canon 135 f/2 so the first reason I really like this lens is because it's so sharp it's actually one of canons sharpest lenses and being so sharp isn't always a super good thing especially if you're taking portraits a lot of people don't like you know every feature on their face to be super sharp I'm definitely in the camp of I'd rather have to sharp and then later I can skin soften or something like that then having not sharp images and then there's really nothing you can do later you can't really sharpen up a dull photo so number two is the f/2 aperture of course it's really isolates your subject you can even shoot full length with an out-of-focus background which is really cool and the compression is really nice as well you can see in these examples I had to be really really far away but it's a full length and in the entire model pops because they're isolated so much by the wide aperture couple quick things it focuses really fast and it's not super expensive so that's really good so this lens isn't without its shortcomings it's not weather sealed which is just something you need to worry about if you're out in the rain or something like that a couple of my flashes aren't water sealed either so it's just like if it's raining I need to just take that into consideration another thing that some people might have to get used to is how far back you need to be obviously 135 is a pretty long focal length I tend to want to give a subject a lot of room I don't like to be right in front of them so actually kind of worked for me but I guess some people like to be up really up close to their subject and direct them or you know something like that but that's not really something you can do which I kind of like but you know everybody to each his own and you know it doesn't work in every situation but one thing that's kind of not good or bad it's just the way the lens it makes a subject feel I guess you'd say I don't want to get too arty-farty but because the lens is so long it definitely gives a separation to your subject I'll show a couple of examples here where I was taking headshots and I'll put side-by-side a shot front with the 135 and then with a 50 for this application I kind of wanted to more shoot with the 50 just because if you look at this one it almost gives the sense of that person is untouchable they seem far away in a way and then you look at this one and it almost looks like they're up close and you connect with them a little more and I think this client specifically wanted their construction workers here to be like approachable relatable and stuff like that so in that application I think the 135 was wrong I mean wrong in a way I mean I don't think it was bad but it just didn't quite give what the client wanted but in a lot of ways I think this shines in the sense of like if you shoot something like fashion II you almost want your subject to look larger than life I actually a lot of the times will shoot up slightly out of subject with this they look a little cooler a little taller almost like I said on unreachable they seem like a lot cooler I don't know hard to explain but hopefully with these examples you'll be able to get an idea so another thing you want to watch out for when you're shooting with this lens is it doesn't have is so camera shake kind of comes into play because the lens is so long the general rule is to have your shutter speed like double your focal length without is if you don't have is so um I wouldn't shoot with this you know 400 is pretty safe and the problem I ran into a couple of times was when I was doing some head shots I was mixing ambient light with some flash so the sync speed of flashes are two hundredths of a second so if I was shooting you know wide open some ambient was coming in which I kind of wanted and I'll show an example so the normal sync speed is 200 which is actually kind of too slow for this so a lot of these I went to high-speed sync which isn't a big deal for flashes sometimes studio strobes you know can't do that so just be careful with that kind of thing because you definitely need like a 400 a second just to make sure that there's no camera shake so hey thanks for watching and let me know in the comments if you liked or disliked the 135 thanks