The Most Versatile Lens Ever Made (Portraits, Wildlife and More) Legendary Canon EF 135mm f2 Review 

I don't even have a camera man! I just watch your videos because one day I might start my own RU-vid if I grow the balls to do it. The main reason is because you help me with my depression and make me laugh. Thank You.

You can't resist the magic of the 5DmkII, you have to buy one. follow the G.A.S. here my little one, take a spoonful of Canon, you need the 5DmkII. Kasey, follow your inner voice... Kasey,... Kasey.... follow the voirce inside of you...

He’s never said he prefers zooms?

He has been complaining about zooms sucking for weeks now. Keep up.

Generous

Still a better hit rate than Fuji :D

The cinema is ours

Makes me want to just get a Canon 6D II lol.

The Fringer EF to Z is pretty good. But the EF lenses really perform well on EOS R bodies, better than native EF. Bought a new R6 for the price of a used one, as they were dumping the old model - pretty good for what I paid for it and with IBIS.

135 mm is one of my favorite focal length, especially for portraits.

@@cameraconspiracies I have the MKI... guess it has the same swonderful Colors in the mkII? Or does Canon frickle with this?

​@collapsingruins I have Mk1 also. Look up Martin Castein on RU-vid, no bs professional who earns a living from photography. I value his opinion but personally have no experience of mk2. He recommends mk1.

This. I think only Sony cameras used CFast (could be wrong on that). The Canon's used Compact Flash + SD if dual slot

​@@definedphotography The 5D mk II came out in 2008, before CFast came out. I still have one, and like I said, it's easy to adapt an SD to fit into a CompactFlash slot. The funny thing is I rarely use the adapter because my Compact Flash cards are large enough. Also, the mk II only has one slot.

@@AskJoe I have some pretty old cards too, I have a couple 1 and 2 Gig cards that were "BIG" when I bought them. LOL I remember when Combat Flash cards (brand Name ) were $275 for a 16gb card. Now the crazy cost is Storage for al these files and Ram to process them.

3D popish too?

That's poetic beyond belief. Like a Russian author. We can't grasp it. We will never know. What is we? That can't tell. Yes, yes right now.

am going bac to canon,,,,,

There is some killer Minolta glass, I have heard amazing this about the Celtic 135mm F2.8. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EvtxHXT0Rr8.html

Kenny Rogers Roasters

Put Magic Latern on it... and you are in Futur II.

Does the 5d mk iii have that look or nothing comes close to 5d mark ii u got 2 😮

@@LouisLuzuka I only own the Classic, would be intrested to see, how the markII is going so far...

@@collapsingruins I owned the classic too, never tried the mark ii

@@LouisLuzuka would be very interesting to know if the video and image quality is the same on the mkII - I know this from Futji, generations go by and the old Xtrans 1 is very different to newer generations. The renders make the look special and unique. Would be interesting to see how canon handles that! Image a 5D Classic Video

Best Camera of all time for Pictures. Love it so much. Have you ever got the Problem fixed, with the fall off Mirror?

@@collapsingruins No, it just works, but I bought it well used and it seems it'd been fixed long time ago. I love big sensor with low megapixel.

Does he leave the Dome?

@@lohikarhu734 That's all there is to 135mm: added shooting distance. People don't get it.

Camera Mystique is one of the more interesting camera youtubes out there....he does seem to bash a few concepts but he always expands on it...he seperates 3d pop from "dimensionality"...he doesn't trash vintage lenses....he identifies their characteristics and when they suit different circumstances...its photo centric but applies to video just as much....understanding micro-contrast and field curvature are difficult subjects that many experienced photographers don't get right....his videos are worth the time to listen to, even when you don't get it first time around......watching his ziess 28mm f2 vs milvus 25mm f1.4 vs zeiss 25mm f2 is a very very interesting exploration (i own the first 2 lenses )

@@robertwlittlejohn I didn't mean to say he trashed the lenses, only the notion that low element count gives that dimensionality/pop. I believe he said what happens is that the old lenses have much more vignette effect which causes the center to appear far brighter. But, I probably shouldn't have used the word trashed either.

I do hate what I've become :)

And and, it's been sooo long now since we've heard you utter "flippy screen". Plus - BITCOIN? Really? I don't believe it exists... It's not real🦄 It's a conspiracy 👈

@@cameraconspiracies probably the keto diet then? Sorry you feel this way, we still like you.

Addicting actually. Charmingly addictive.😢

he thinks the camera uses cFast since he has no clue about what he says most of the time

What wasn't cutting it about the 90mm T2?

@@cameraconspiracies It’s hard to nail down, exactly. Like the source of the emptiness in a photographers soul that leads to eternal GAS. The focus speed of it is fine. The rendering… decent, but only that. It softens the background behind full-body subjects nicely, without obliterating the context and setting. Sharpness was very much enough for me, even wide open. But I couldn’t open it wider when I wanted to lessen background detractions further. Like when there is sunlit foliage in the background because some jerk trees just grow wherever they feel like. This is, after all, a lens I use mostly outdoors. I found I would usually grab the 56/1.2 and the 90 sat at home or in my bag. The rendering and field curvature of the EF 135 is fantastic. Definitely more “pop” to the images than the Fujinon. Despite also picking up the Plena, I kept the EF 135 because they are totally different. The EF falls apart with any light hitting the front element. The Plena does not. The EF has a nice swirl and curvature to the bokeh, while the Plena is like nuked butter. The EF is only marginally bigger and heavier than the Fujinon 90, while the Plena is a chonky beast with pre-diabetes. The EF is plenty sharp enough for 24 megapixels, while the Plena is probably sharp enough for anything you can put behind it. The EF is more prone to CA while the Plena takes effort to create or notice CA with. I don’t care about vignetting. Both are incredibly easy to nail focus with. Something about the rate of focus falloff? I’m not a lens designer or physicist. I just judge their work like a thin person judging the life choices of the person in front of me at the grocery store. Now, if Fujifilm made a 90/1.4… in the same vein as the wonderful 35/1.4... And if they could come out with a camera body that can match the Zf… Regardless, someone in Tokyo has a minty, repatriated 90/2 and I hope they’re more talented and less judgmental than me.

@@PaulQ-gw6be Thanks for the detailed reply :)

Wonderful lens. I have three of the D versions and one plain AF version. I use them on Nikon. Absolute must have, life and death level do or die. Just get one. Then again, it might be lame on GH6 or other cameras. Never tried it on anything but Nikon. Usually around $300 on eBay. The AF and AF D versions are very little more money than the AIS lens, and if you go AIS, make sure to get the ED version, which is MUCH better than the older non-ED version.

@@danncorbit3623 thanks for your recommendation, you’ve verified what I keep hearing about the lens. I use a few vintage AIS Nikkor lenses on my gh6 and they’re my favorites to use, over my native autofocusing lenses. I think it might be a good fit, especially with a speedbooster. Maybe even more-so on the a7siii. My 400mm f3.5 AIS is especially impressive adapted to the gh6.

What I remember is watching Canon Photo Safari on the Outdoor Network. This was when it was still 35mm film. I loved that show.

Just press pause on your video :)

@@cameraconspiracies Genius!

That is allegedly a Sigma designed lens and which is a nono for CC

oof but these full frame dslr cameras have no video abilities. lol.

i'm still using my hotspot on my phone so watching in 144p. lololol

are you kidding me with this bee footage

dang i just found an old nikon d40 sd card so i was thinking about dusting off my uncle's old Nikon D40 and tryin to charge her batteries...