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First Merry Christmas to all

While searching for full frame lenses, someone told me is to look for lenses that has a red circle / band on the lens body itself, this circle usually is close to the front of the lens for some brands and others is around the back.

I was not sure because this guy was trying to sell me a lens that will cost me around USD 2200/-, basing the fact that a full frame camera will not work perfectly with others but because this has this red band around it, this means it is designed to work with a full frame body hence the price and eventually a better picture quality.
 
Yes you are right, it was a canon lens 50mm-1.2 it was a gift for my brother who uses a Canon 5D MarkII.
 
Sarie said:
First Merry Christmas to all

While searching for full frame lenses, someone told me is to look for lenses that has a red circle / band on the lens body itself, this circle usually is close to the front of the lens for some brands and others is around the back.

I was not sure because this guy was trying to sell me a lens that will cost me around USD 2200/-, basing the fact that a full frame camera will not work perfectly with others but because this has this red band around it, this means it is designed to work with a full frame body hence the price and eventually a better picture quality.
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Myth! Your profile says you have a Sony A900. So you must be aware of the Carl Zeiss (high end premium) lenses do not have this at all, does this make it a bad lenses? Canon 'L' lenses does have this characteristic of the red ring representing the higher end of lenses.

Full frame lenses does not mean it will yield higher picture quality, some crop lenses which are optimised for crop sensors could perform just as well, such as the non L Canon 17-55 2.8/f EFS lens
 
Sarie said:
Yes you are right, it was a canon lens 50mm-1.2 it was a gift for my brother who uses a Canon 5D MarkII.
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Very nice gift too, if he decides he don't fancy it then please send it to me :D
 
I fully agree with you evo456 but since I was buying this as a gift for a Canon user, and due to my limited knowledge in that brand, I had my doubts. You are right the Carl Zeiss does not have the red color characteristic.
 
Sarie said:
Yes you are right, it was a canon lens 50mm-1.2 it was a gift for my brother who uses a Canon 5D MarkII.
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Ah, I see. I think the Canon L lenses are pro grade but not the only ones that will work with Full Frame. I don't know much about Canon lenses, being a Sony user, but hopefully someone will be able to help you.

That said, the Canon 50mm f1.2 is around £1200 so $2200 sounds a bit on the pricey side.
 
Sarie said:
I fully agree with you evo456 but since I was buying this as a gift for a Canon user, and due to my limited knowledge in that brand, I had my doubts. You are right the Carl Zeiss does not have the red color characteristic.
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In that case any canon lenses with the red ring will do just dandy :thumbs:
 
Thank you all, your inputs were most helpful.
 
As has already been said, Canon L Lenses (red ring) are all full-frame compatible, but so are all Canon-Made EF Lenses.
EF-S Lenses are crop camera only, and some third party (Sigma, Tamron etc), EF lenses are crop only too.
 
Thmaga said:
As has already been said, Canon L Lenses (red ring) are all full-frame compatible, but so are all Canon-Made EF Lenses.
EF-S Lenses are crop camera only, and some third party (Sigma, Tamron etc), EF lenses are crop only too.
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Indeed.

I've been looking at this over the past couple of weeks since going FF and I think I've worked out that

Sigma: Lenses with DC are crop only (not to be confused with DG)
Tamron: Lenses marked DI II are crop only (DI are FF)
 
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