It is amazing. The best case I've ever had.

Following some weeks of use, the computer part enlarged a bit and there is less stress on the zipper, which you warned about a possible source of problems.

Thank you again for the advice.

This is the way canon asked thoose money. It means no photo to be taken apart from thoose with fast lenses…

My 2c opinion: keep the best zoom lenses (f2-f4) and wait for a better low light sensor. like ISO 1 milion…

It was probably a few days before I posted this blog entry. Twice now I've successfully had it send back a photo of me along with my external and firewall IP addresses.

The next time I use my laptop for an extended period of time I will try another test.

Having heard so much of focus-issues relating to the 50mm 1.2L lens, I opted for the 85mm 1.2L in the end of last year when acquiring new gear – eventhough its almost twise as expensive as the 50mm 1.2L. Still, having and keeping my old faithful 50mm 1.4 along the side.

The 50mm 1.4 only drawback is that its autofocus breaks too darn easily IF the lens is dropped. Mine dropped from about 30cm (~1feet) to the ground and broke. I managed to fix the autofocus (bend plastic element inside the lens) at first, but soon after that the autofocus motor apparently gave up and had to send the lens to be fixed which resulted in ~250 euros (380-390 dollars) repair bill (it's still cheaper than buying a new one in Northern Europe, plus the insurance helped out).

p.s. I don't know if anyone else noted it, but in almost all of the test shots the F1.2 versions have their focus point a bit more to the back than the ones in the 1.4 versions.. is it just a pure coinsidence + the result of unscientific testing methods, or could this actually be another prove to the widely reported "back-focus" issues?

I would have kept the 50L for build quality alone despite the lack of difference except that it missed focus in a number of real-world images that it shouldn't have.

Looking forward to the 35L comparison.

Thanks for the comments. I said in my 4th paragraph that this is not a scientific test, so take it as such. I did take some photos with both lenses while using a tripod but did not include them in the test shots. I don't use a tripod while out photographing in the real world so that's how I wanted to test these lenses. I'm not sure I find photographing newspapers on the wall all that informative to taking real photos.

After a week with the 50L I came away with a great sense of the strengths and weaknesses of this lens.

I just finished a week photographing with the 35L and the EF35. If you look at images taken on a tripod with both lenses at f2 and f2.8, in a controlled test, the L lens is clearly better. In the real world the EF35/2 is still a much better lens than I had come to believe based on things I had read. Both of these 35mm lenses have their strengths and weaknesses and I may write something up about them once I get some time.

I decided that the 50L did not make sense for me. I could not see any difference between this lens and the 50 1.4 in the type of images I shoot. I also didn't like the way the lens felt on the 5D. It's so stubby and heavy that I know psychologically it would make me not want to carry it all the time. I like to carry a camera practically all the time and weight is a concern. I also have the 24-105, which is actually a bit heavier than the 50L, but because it's longer if feels better balanced on the 5D.

I also did notice the "focus shift" a few times with this lens.

Where I can see this lens making sense is used close up and wide open just for the creamy smooth background it produces. Images with the 50L do appear to be more out of focus compared to the EF 50. Go back to my posted images and look at the three photos of the fence and look at the backgrounds. I think these images show it well.

I did see where Sigma is coming out with a 50 1.4. I will be curious to see that lens on a 5D.

I hope this helps.

Just out of curiosity, I'd like your conclusion; Mine is that I'd like to invest for the even more shallow dof of the 1.2L but € 1000 seems to be a lot…

Still undicided,

Kind regard, Derk

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Cheers!

(there's about 4 or 5 feet of snow piled at the end of my driveway from plows.)

That 55 MPG was my highest tank yet. I don't get that on every tank. Lots of things effect the MPG: temperature, wind, rain and terrain. That 55 MPG run was in pretty ideal conditions. It was hot (the MFD in my photos shows it was 82 out that day), dry, no wind and I kept the speed to no more than 65 MPH.

But when we make long trips I am easily getting high 40's. A few months back we drove from Akron to Fallingwater, the Frank Lloyd Wright house out in Pennsylvania. That was about a 400 mile round trip and I average 49.5 MPG for the trip. We would have gotten better mileage but the area around Fallingwater is very hilly and it sapped some MPG for the two days we were there.

Over Christmas we made a run around Ohio to see family that was a little over 400 miles. I hit 48.4 MPG for that trip and this was in cooler weather.

On the flip side of this, my wife drives the car M-F and her office is only two miles from the house. I fill up the car on the weekends and by the next weekend she will be in the low 40's if she does not have to leave town during the week for work. If she does make a run to for work (usually around 80-100 mile trips) the MPG on the MFD will be around 46 MPG. This is during the summer. Now that winter is here her MPG for the week has dropped to around 34 mpg for those short trips in town.

I'm surprised the car gets as good as mileage on the highway. Before getting the car I thought it would be lower. We make a lot of short trips in town on the weekends where the cars never gets a chance to really warm up so the MPG is not as good as I read others get during in-town driving.

Sorry you don't like your Prius. I really like driving the car and filling it up is a lot less painful than my wife's last car, a Lexus RX330. That thing sucked the gas! I drive a 98 Camry and I get 22 mpg during the warmer months. The Prius is easily getting twice the milage of the Camry.

Cheers,
Jim