Not necessarily after you buy the lens. I know a couple owners of the 85/1.2L, all of them shoot primarily with 20D's or 30D's.
-Adam P. J. Alling wrote: > If you can afford the lens, you can certainly afford the high end body. > > Adam Maas wrote: > > >>Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Bill Lawlor wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>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. >>>> >>>> >>> >>>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. >>> >>>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. >>> >>>Godfrey >>> >>> >>> >> >>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. >> >>-Adam >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

