helimat wrote: PetKal wrote:
The first 200 f/1.8 I got almost four years ago. Paid an uncomfortably high price for it, but it was kinda mint. After two weeks I ended up returning it......I felt it was way too much money for the use I could get out of it.
Lo and behold, a few months after that I started looking again.....bought my second 200 f/1.8 for a better price and the lens even sharper. Increased my use of the lens significantly by making an effort in that direction. The more I used it the better I liked it. Then I decided I needed a backup 200 f/1.8....so I started looking again
It is an awesome lens and a triumph of sorts for the folks who designed it and were building it. I can\'t be without it any longer.
But do you have a backup to the backup...
Hell, if Ed Sawyer is true to his word, he might find me another copy for $2,000 perhaps. Helimat....consider this.....that would be cheaper than these new lenses: 14L MkII, 17mm and 24mm new TS-E lenses and 28-300L.
I simply have to love the lens that gets me a 100% crop like this.
