I quite enjoy these threads. Yes, they often repeat.
However, there are new people to this forum everyday that have not seen this. Plus, there are some people now looking for this lens who couldn't afford it before or weren't interested.
If we restricted these posts to truly original content, this would be a very small forum. So I say post away, even show me why your 35-80mm IV is a great lens, I welcome it.
Blowout wrote:
what's next?
amazing shots with 70-200 f4?...PLEASE!!!!!!!
we got enough of this. )
Calm down- a lot of people make lens purchasing decision based upon review like this by people they know and trust.
I know my 10-22 post convinced a buyer or two, and Tom Hick's posts about the 180L convinced me to buy that lens! While uz2work's posts led me to buy a 100-400, so I think these are actually very valuable.
With that said, the 17-40 is a great little lens, that I regret selling, and will buy again soon- and people may want to know that
I've been hanging around here for over three years, and always enjoy seeing what people use their equipment for, and what they think some of their best examples from their favorite lenses are.
Blowout has been here less than three weeks, and already is annoyed...
I had it but sold it after 2 rolls. It's very soft as many users have complaint. The color is not as vivid as my 28-70/2.8L either. A medicore wide angle with a L label.
Very disapointed!
I bought my 17-40 about 6 months ago and have been debating every since whether I like it or not. Until yesterday. I was looking at some pictures of a wedding a did a few weeks and looked at one really sharp picture and thought to myself, wow my 50mm is sharp. I opened up the exif info and it turns out it was shot with my 17-40. I was very impressed. The performance on a full frame is really disspointing though. On my Elan 7ne the corner and edge sharpness is terrible, and I imagine it would be rather dissapointing on a 5D as well.
xmattkx wrote:
Calm down- a lot of people make lens purchasing decision based upon review like this by people they know and trust.
I know my 10-22 post convinced a buyer or two, and Tom Hick's posts about the 180L convinced me to buy that lens! While uz2work's posts led me to buy a 100-400, so I think these are actually very valuable.
With that said, the 17-40 is a great little lens, that I regret selling, and will buy again soon- and people may want to know that
I don't post much, or read as much as some others here, but I have been looking at the 17-40 and did want to know that!
You do all realize that if you want to see a bunch of photos of a given lens that Pbase allows you to browse galleries based just one what lens is used.
They probably have 50,000 images from the 17-40 alone
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