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white
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Registered: Sep 18, 2003
Location: Canada
Posts: 21
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Review Date: Apr 2, 2007
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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A notable improvement over the previously very decent lens. The improvement in the corners is more noticeable at the wide end. The best ultra-wide I have used.
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We always want more.
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I perform my testing in the real world of hyper-focalized compositions that occur in landscape photography. Some lenses fall apart more in these situations as they try to control aberrations on near and far distances at the same time. Some lenses that are great on a flat surface fall apart more in landscape work. This is the best retro-focus wide I have seen for landscape work, zoom or fixed focus. This looks better than my Blad 40CF and 50CF.
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 Apr 2, 2007
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mbailey
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Registered: Apr 12, 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 333
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Review Date: Mar 31, 2007
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,598.00
| Rating: 10
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Great feel and build.
Quick silent focus.
Sharp though-out focal range and aperatures.
Not too much more $ than the mk1.
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Expensive filters.
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Mar 31, 2007
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tom guffey
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Registered: Jun 17, 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 574
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Review Date: Mar 31, 2007
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,599.00
| Rating: 9
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Improvement over the original, especially around the perimeter of the len - sharper that first series. Clean and extremly clear throughout the working range of the lens. Solid, superb autofocus - a little faster than the original. Typical "L" seires feel to the lens.
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The 82mm filter - even where I purchased it, Glazier's in Seattle, didint stock any 82mm filters. Was hoping that the prising would be better.....but, you get what you pay for. A little heafty, but to be expected on a lens this wide and fast.
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Mar 31, 2007
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sjms
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Registered: Mar 20, 2003
Location: United States
Posts: 16295
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Review Date: Mar 30, 2007
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,470.00
| Rating: 7
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Pros:
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Wide as i want it on a FF camera
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At f2.8 still isn't what i expected. better then the 1st gen but still falls a little short in FF.
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FF view 1Ds2
while it is an improvement over its previous namesake at wide open at 16mm the lower right corner it soft. move up to the smaller apertures and it is quite a nice lens. i kind of expected i higher quality image. it is more of a marginal improvement overall. i will need to give it a good work out and see.
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Mar 30, 2007
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7.98
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