The lens I have already bought when I was still the EOS 620 possessed. It is my favorite lens - therefore the lens has received 5 stars. The build quality does not quite manage to connect a Canon L. The optical line very confident - a 2 would be assigned when compared with L-lenses. The price / performance ratio I might receive as a truly excellent. And it's like I said my favorite lens - it has something to do with the depth of 100mm. It comes as standard with the "gold edge", ie the middle series. It features a metal bayonet and the possibility at any time to manually intervene in the focus. The filter diameter is 58mm - one of the most popular sizes, so usually do not incur additional investments for new filter. The Objetiv is small and light. In the design, it is the 1.8 / 85mm - the two lenses are quasi siblings. However, the 100mm lens is far less widespread. Probably comes from the fact that because the 85mm "holy trinity" of the lenses fit into the 35 (28), 85 and 135th When I bought the lens, to me the distance to 50mm was not enough at 85mm. And the handle for 100 was worth it (ok, a college friend always told at that time what a "great" lens he had there - which has infected me). 100mm is a focal length, which already makes a very good exemption (separation of the foreground from the background). Especially with f = 2.0 - so when you look through the viewfinder - which is really nice to see. I photograph in principle with open aperture. I make exceptions only if too much light is there or I need a longer exposure time for design reasons. The biggest focus is to find between Aperture 4.0 and 5.6. At full aperture the images are a little softer - but without becoming soft. I call the "mood". For portraits, it is certainly the much better choice than the 100 macro. The vignetting occurring is irrelevant and the distortion only to recognize when millimeter paper is photographed. In the viewfinder and on printouts no distortion can be seen. Autofocus can not be heard and super fast. Unfortunately, the lens hood must be purchased separately. The photos made that I liked from the start, so that 100mm are've got into normal focal length. However, this is a question of their own viewing habits. There are also photo enthusiasts that could can be soldered a 35er on the camera.
Now I walk slowly out of the words. I find the lens just super. If you ever break down, I'm going to get immediately a new - and, although I've been using the 90 TS-E still a similar focal length in the bag. Oh, sometimes I do not know if I'm not yet a completely klitzekleinbisschen still prefer to have the 90 TS-E. But you already notice: The focal length has it done to me easily. By the way, even at 6x6 was formerly the 100 my favorite focal length. Longer focal lengths flatten the image too much (200mm) and shorter focal lengths stagger the depth of too little. But that's - I said above - depending on the individual way of seeing and of use. Before I forget: On Crop cameras can in my opinion not to develop this particular visual effect. In the days when I had a D30 or a 10D, since it had a looong pause (actually I've got hardly photographed because my pictures were too shallow - this effect on Crop cameras has to do with the fact that shorter focal lengths used Need to become). When I had the 5D (2005) it came right on it again. "Finally," I thought.
