If you can afford the lens, you can certainly afford the high end body.
Adam Maas wrote:
>Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
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>>On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Bill Lawlor wrote:
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>>>Recently, on DPreview Pentax slr forum there was also a comparison
>>>between
>>>the 77 and a Canon 80 1.2. The FA77 won hands down.
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>>I saw that one too. I think he's got problems with the focus on his
>>Canon 85/1.2L exposures. If you look carefully, you can see the
>>sharpness increasing towards the back of the subject plane on at
>>least two of the examples.
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>>The Canon 85/1.2L is a superb lens ... not that I think it's better
>>than the FA77, but it is quite comparable at least in sharpness from
>>my short experience using one. It was too pricey and too large/heavy
>>for my tastes, but I had no issues with its performance.
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>>Godfrey
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>One question with that lens becomes what body was used. There's no way a
>Rebel other than the XTi can accurately AF a 85 f1.2L when shooting wide
>open, the AF unit simply isn't accurate enough. Even the XTi, 5D, 30D,
>20D and 10D are marginal wide open with a tele lens that fast unless
>using the centre point, although the bodies with the 45 point unit will
>have no issues if you're using one of the high-precision points.
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>-Adam
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