Digital lifestyle specialist, Pinnacle Micro, has announced a new L-series standard prime lens: the EF 50m f/1.2L USM from Canon.
Sharing the widest aperture of any lens in Canon's current EF range, the new model offers fine control over depth-of-field, and consummate low-available-light performance.
"It is expected to be popular among wedding and portrait photographers as well as professional photo-journalists," says Cobus Erasmus, Canon brand manager at Pinnacle Micro.
"Endowed with Canon's latest AF technologies, the lens embodies the brand's reputation for superior-response high-speed auto focus, while a circular aperture beautifully produces even background blur." The ring-type ultrasonic motor (USM), high-speed CPU and improved AF algorithms combine to ensure highly responsive auto-focus. The USM holds the lens with precision and accuracy, the instant it arrives at the correct focus and without overshoot, and features full-time manual focus override.
The L-series is Canon's professional lens range, designed and built to meet the needs of the most demanding professional photographers. To match the weather resistance offered by EOS-1 series camera bodies, seals and gaskets and a lens mount O-ring prevent the ingress of dust and moisture, to keep pros shooting in inclement conditions.
In addition to optimised lens shaping to reduce reflections, and the use of anti-reflective material inside the lens barrel, the EF 50mm f/1.2L USM employs Canon's patented Super Spectra lens element coatings.
"These suppress flare and ghosting - more prone to occur with digital cameras due to reflection off the image sensor," says Erasmus. "By increasing light absorption, coatings reduce reflections off lens element surfaces to deliver crisp, undistorted images with natural colour balance."
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