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

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is a product that offers a lot for its low cost

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I bought this lens for indoor sport. It focuses faster and preciser than EF50/1.4. It serves its purpose well.

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Absolutely perfect. Wide open you get about 1.5 centimeters depth of field, so shooting at 2.2 is where I find myself leaving it. Nice weight, size, feel. Manual focus is super smooth, making video easy.

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It's not a telephoto lens with which you can rely 100% of the time to photograph your subject without it noticing it, yet it places you at an interesting distance in which you don't intrude in the subjects space. But at the same time the pleasingly silent, fast and accurate auto-focus allows you to capture vivid moments. With a maximum aperture of f/2.0 one can shot indoors with no need of any backup lighting or flash, rendering very natural-looking photos shot at very slow ISOs.

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This lens in amazingly sharp at f2 and the af is very fast an accurate.The bokeh is so smooth an buttery. This is a great portrait lens its my favorite. I would recommend this lens to anyone that want amazing portraits!!!!

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Crisp clear pictures, easy to carry.

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I decided to go with this lens since it is much faster than my other lenses and the bokeh it produces. I was emploring as well the 85mm f/1.8 which is very similar in focal range and price range but I decided this because of the extra 15mm and better (metalic) filter threat. I use it for indoor portrait with natural light where I want to be far away or at night sports and events. It is faster than the 24-105mm f/4 IS and 70-200mm f/4 IS and much less expensive and lighter than the EF 135mm f/2.0L. It feels well balanced in my 60D and I'm very happy with the results. This is a very good value for the price.
The only drawback is the hood attachment clip mechamism.

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This lens is very good for portraits.

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I am an amateur photographer - a hobbyist and before getting this lens, it was terribly difficult for me to take good "people" shots. I just wasn't comfortable getting into that personal space to get the really good portraits. I'd started to move in that direction when I bought my first 50mm prime lens but with THIS one, the quality of the shots I was taking pulled me so far past any self-conscious shyness that I never looked back! I've found this is an EXCELLENT lens for shooting between 10-15 feet from your subject (maybe slightly closer) This thing fills the view finder with their whole face, fairly quickly. A couple of steps back and you've got some nice soft focus for the background. I can honestly say that this purchase has made THE biggest difference in the quality of my photography. I have had more comments and compliments in the past month than at any other time in my three years of shooting. I was NOT disappointed!

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I decided to go with this lens instead of the EF 135mm f/2.8 since it is faster. I use it for indoor portrait with natural light where I want to be farther away than with a 50mm lense. It is faster than the 135mm f/2.8 and much less expensive than the EF 135mm f/2.0L. I'm very happy with the results. This is a very good value for the price.

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When I bought this lens, I was looking for good mid-range portrait glass. I got quite a bit more than I paid for. There's something about the light quality it produces that none of my other lenses (from an admittedly limited collection) equals. Color transitions seem smoother and sharper, and chromatic aberrations are very small, even in unprocessed high-key images. I like that Canon has kept the visible focal length scale. It's a surprisingly useful little manual tool when we're used to processors doing most of the leg work.

The only drawback isn't really the lens's fault. Canon's factory hood uses a pushbutton lock that isn't as confidence-inspiring as their usual bayonet locks. But this is still an excellent piece of glass, and you'd be a fool to reject it because the removable plastic bit on the front isn't rock-solid. It's fine if you don't use your gear like a Neanderthal. I do some work in unfriendly environments, but I don't worry about this thing falling apart. The lens itself is toughly built and clicks onto the receiver as solidly and precisely as a submarine hatch.

Broadly speaking, a prime's reduced element count yields a crisper image for lower cost, making them a good idea for the budget photographer if you select your focal lengths carefully. A lot of younger photographers (yours truly included) tend almost exclusively to short lenses, but a 100mm(ish) prime should definitely be in your collection. It's shown me the benefits of higher-than-usual zoom levels, and definitely broadened my horizons quite a bit. It's well-built, focuses quickly, and is much more versatile than I expected. I've used "better" lenses, but this one remains my favorite.

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I was looking for a lightweight portrait lens that I could carry in the bag. I love my Canon EF 135mm f/2L but it's too big and heavy to carry around for casual excursions.

The 85mm f/1.8 is nice but I was also looking for a lens that will double as a concert telephoto.

The Canon EF 100mm f/2 is just that lens! It is tack sharp, small and lightweight - the perfect combination to be in my bag at all times. Right now I can't seem to bear to take it off my Canon 5D.

Thanks B&H!

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This lens focuses accurately and swiftly without any hesitation or hunting back and forth even in dim light.On my 5D and my 5DMII it feels perfectly ballanced and is very inconspicuous.I know it shares the same 8 blade aperature as the 85mm 1.8 but the bokeh seems for some reason soo much more pleasing to an eye and highlights are much smoother.Perhaps its the extra 15mm in focal lenght or the diferent glass elements inside.I love this little gem.And I have shot Leica,Zeiss and Haselblads all my life.I owned the 85mmf1.2II and found it too heavy and too bulky not to mention very cumbersome.The 135 f2L is fine but compresses too much for undistorted
portraits.Macro 100 is great but bokeh is't so.If
Go buy one and never look back.And don't get cought up in the L versus non L game.
This lens will handle anything you can throw at it without any problems.
I prefer it over the 85 1.8 a lot

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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.