Canon Telephoto EF 100mm f/2.0 USM Autofocus Lens USA

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I used this at my son's wrestling match. It was great. Fast auto-focus and great in low light. For the price you can not beat it. The 1.6 crop factor makes me sit back a bit I did get some great shots.

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This 100 mm lens is the prime lens you'll get for portraiture if you are somehow matching the picture quality to the price.
You can verify the optical quality from net reviews. It is nearly faultless, the best Canon lens, they say.

It is not very expensive as it is not an L lens.
It has been around for a while because it is not easy to make significat improvements to something 99.5 % there already.

My impression on the 5D II full frame body is 'wow'.
You actually see what you are looking at unlike some dimmer zoom lenses.
At full opening, you can cut DOF slices about 2 centimetres thick. You have to shoot many of them, because with a moving subject, luck comes into play.

Shutting down to 5.6 and looking at your shots on a 27-inch screen you sort of get embarrassed, you feel as if you ' invaded somebody's private space'. With an accustomed model , the feeling of intimacy is electrifying.

Pros do not need lenses like that, so I was told. They get the same shots and more with the L zooms. the fact is that my 70-200 f/2.8 disintegrates totally when I shoot against the sun. Too many lenses, too many diffracting surfaces. This 100mm keeps the shot together.

The same thing with the 24-70 L. Shooting against the light source gives you no pictures at all.

As much as I love the flexibility and the perceived quality of the L zooms, there are a couple of prime lenses that you should have for the beauty of the image they create.

The 100mm f/2 is one.
The 50 mm f/ 1.4 is the other one.

Talking to full frame photographers here.

What's not so great about it?
It is not white and it does not zoom.
But it most certainly is a piece of glass which is a pleasure to handle and which gives you a couple of ahhhs while looking ay your day's shots.

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I've owned a 85/1.2 and 135s. The 85 is incredibly heavy, the largest aperture is paradoxically almost unusable, since it gives only a few millimeters of DOF. It's also too much "open" on the background, making it confusing, and being an 85, you must bend over the model to make a head shot, what's intimidating. On the other hand, the 135s are too long for use on medium/small places, and already compresses the perspective enough to let an artificial look on the model's face. The 100/2 is then the perfect portrait lens, long enough to maintain a good working distance, the f2 is a plain usable aperture with a nice bokeh, the background is relatively small, short enough to use in restricted space. And it's also very small, lightweight and cheap for what it offers.

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I've used this Lens for around a Month now to shoot night, dawn, dusk, racing events, and some in-moment portraits.

This lens is the clearest, and quickest & accurate focusing lens I own (if you follow what I mean- other lenses that I've used have focused quickly, but not always accurately- or accurately after hunting around for a while. This one is both fast and accurate at the same time)- and it does it all quietly. If you're new to photography, don't underestimate the value of a quiet focus. If you're shooting one picture here and there, sure it may not matter. But if on any given outting you're likely to max out whatever memory card you have in one go, the quiet focus makes a long day of shooting a lot easier on the senses, which makes it a bit more relaxing to accomplish what you're doing.

I've not uncovered anything that I don't like about this lens. It's lightweight, quick, accurate, well built, and affordable.

Previous to this, I had been using mainly L-zoom lenses (ef 70-200 F4L and 28-70 F2.8L), along with my 50mm F1.8II and this 100mm F2 is easily my favourite lens to shoot with. EASILY.

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Bought it for a wedding so i am not up in people's faces. Works great outdoors, 2.0 gives you some great depth of field for fun shots. 100mm takes alot of planning on positioning and shot composition to do on the fly, but thats a prime lens for you.

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Very, very sharp. Even wide open it rivals others stopped down. It is without a doubt the sharpest in my collection which consists of a Canon 50mm f/.8 I, Tamron 17-50 f/2.8, Sigma 30mm f/1.4. Bokeh is great, nice and buttery smooth.Only down side is that there seems to be an unusually large amount of CA wide open even when the light isn't that harsh. For example I took a test shot of a metal sphere indoors under dim florescent lights and there was very noticeable CA when viewed at 100%. This is the only reason I did not give it a 5 star rating. The copy I received had a very large white spec of dust in between the glass elements inside the lens so maybe this is contributing somehow if it's positioned right? Not sure. No score take off for the dust spec, that's a quality control issue and it does happen occasionally. [...]

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Great product. Fast to focus, not expensive, worls well in low light.

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This was my first "upgrade" lens purchased. I wanted to get something that I could use on my APS-C sensor as well as a full frame for when I eventually upgrade. This lens is a keeper. I wanted something with a wide aperture, and good focal range for portraits, and the occasional macro. Even though it isn't a dedicated macro lens, it fits the bill very well on both. It's very silent in it's action, the bokeh is amazing on it, and it's very compact. It's slightly heavier than my kit lens, and it doesn't have IS, but considering I'm not zooming out to 300mm it's negligible. Overall, an outstanding product.

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Great for portraits.

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Works very well. It was heavier than I was expecting, but it feels very well built. Gives beautiful optics and lots of light, as would be expected. I'll use it primarily for natural light portraits and other low light shots.

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I use this lens for macro photography and portraits. I love the image it produces and how clear the photos are.

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I use this lens to take pictures of my dogs and wildlife.

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outdoors

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I tried the 85mm f/1.8 lens as a portrait lens and was not too happy with the working distance, in order to produce tight close-ups. I've tried using my 100mm f/2.8 macro and the working distance was more suitable for me. But, that is a slow focusing lens, and it's heavy for my portrait needs, although that's an excellent all-in-one macro/portrait lens. So, on a whim, I traded a lens for the 100mm f/2 and I love it. It focuses reasonably fast, is very sharp, has good background blur ability and is so lightweight and inconspicuous. I'd highly recommend it for indoor and outdoor portraiture.

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Amazing lens..I love it. sharp, fast focus and great for portraits. When i want an amazing photo it is the lens I use.

Mike Adams

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Indoor sports, ambient light portraits. It's fast and sharp. AF is adequately fast, even in dim light, on a Digital Rebel XTi.

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Good lens with fast aperture ! Great Blur.

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Good weight, excellent size! f/2 for a very affordable price!

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I take a lot of photos of my kids sporting events. My other lenses took good outdoor action shots, but I couldn't get a decent indoor shot. Problem solved with this lens. What a difference the correct equipment makes.

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So far I have been using this lens for Indoor BMX racing at a track with 'not very good' lighting. Even with the poor ambient light the lens focuses fast giving sharp images. I haven't had the chance to do any serious portrait work with it yet, but the quick run and gun shots are coming out great. I highly recommend this lens.