How I did NOT buy 3 super desirable nifties today... and shot the ones I own instead

These are great! Actually, all the photos you post are great You definitely don't NEED more lenses and you ARE to be commended on not giving in to the temptation. But sometimes the temptation is too great and there is nothing wrong with that either. I should take a lesson from you and stop worrying about what camera I have or am going to keep or buy and start taking photos and learning more. I know it's the photographer and not the gear, but it is very hard not to focus on the equipment ... it's easier than doing the real work. Anyway, congratulations on your self-restraint!

 

Interesting subjects are the best cure for the addiction...and you're right your friend is VERY photogenic, although I believe that to be the case with most of France.

 

Ha ha, we'll be starting a 'snap the uglies' thread now! Really gorgeous pics, of course helped by attractive subjects, but even beautiful can be made to look unattractive by a crap photo, so well done you.....as alway.

 

I am really enjoying it, though it's making me tempted to investigate the FDn 50/1.2 L which apparently is the sharpest of any of Canon's 1.2s, culmination of decades of lens tech blah blah blah. Not cheap though

 

You forgot TALENTED PHOTOGRAPHER.

 

I know what you mean seeing these has me thinking about a Rokkor 50/1.2...thankfully my lack of funds will keep me from doing something foolish.

 

There's someone offering a MD 50/1.2 for about $400 at a local forum here, it's a bit more than I paid for my FL55 and the pics didn't strike me as significantly sharper, otherwise I'd consider it! The colors looked better though

 

The Hexanon 57/1.2 also has quite the reputation...in all honesty though, I think once you get into the 1.2 range the lenses are all pretty good. The Pen-F 42/1.2 is another option although I'd guess given that Pen-F lenses are spendy I would imagine SLR lenses would be a much better buy.

 

I've read that a lot of f1.4s have better across-the-frame performance than their f1.2 counterparts. It's also claimed that the Konica M Hexanon 50/1.2 is sharper than Canon's legendary 50/0.95 at every equivalent f/stop which makes this and the L really to-die-for. I guess the advantage of the crop sensor is we don't feel poor corner performance much. One of these days I'll eventually decide to do a sell-off and get one of them I'm sure. But not right now

 

Isn't the M-Hexanon a 50/2 instead of a 50/1.2?

 

There's both, the f1.2 Titanium was made for a limited Millennium edition RF and is a manual lens with 2000s lens tech. If I won the lottery this is the first lens I would buy