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rendra
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Location: Indonesia
Posts: 25
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Review Date: Feb 25, 2006
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| Rating: 10
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Fast AF, Nice color rendition, Relative small size
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none
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The best lenses I've own so far. Terrific if you combine with fast body such 1v, 20D since you will not miss any shots those you like !
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 Feb 25, 2006
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b-man
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Review Date: Feb 12, 2006
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $900.00
| Rating: 10
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Fast, SHARP, incredibly pleasing bokeh, fast focusing, focus limiter, big manual-focus ring, strong build, everything that should come with the price...
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Massive lens hood
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I bought this lens initially for basketball, but it's a bit too long on my 20D. However, it is incredible for just about everything else. F/2 is a huge asset for poorly lit speeches, etc. A great lens for sharpness, bokeh, everything I mentioned in pros. Go out and buy one if you're interested in a great lens!
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Feb 12, 2006
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terminator
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Location: United States
Posts: 272
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Review Date: Feb 8, 2006
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $900.00
| Rating: 10
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SHARP!
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Canon needs better quality control!
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Photos by this amazing lens state it all. So I will not repeat all the beautiful things about this lens again.
Just to tell my story about this lens. I bought it from Amazon, and found a receipt with a different name on it. It seemed to be a returned item. I throughly inspected the lens and did not find anything wrong. Then I cut out the UPC and sent it to Canon Rebate Center. After several days I heard from a friend that he found a big dust inside of his brand new Canon 85mm f/1.8 lens. Then I re-examined the lens under strong light and found two unpleasant marks inside of the front element. Both are about 3-4mm in the length. So I sent it to Canon Irvine for a repair. Two weeks after, I received the lens again. Guess what? I found a much longer mark this time - 15-20mm in the length! Fortunately it is not a scratch. It looks much like the mark after one cleans the glass with some wet fibre. It does not affect image quality as far as I can tell. However it is annoying to think of the fact that for $900 you get an imperfect piece of glass from Canon! I would fire the quality control employees if I am the manager in Canon.
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Feb 8, 2006
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Liquidpics
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Feb 3, 2006
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Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Sharp, Fast, Awesome Bokeh! Great performer in low light situations! The best portrait lens out there for a full frame camera!
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This lens really hooks you into the "gotta have" more fast L's phenomenom.
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Feb 3, 2006
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Al_10D
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Jan 13, 2006
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $706.00
| Rating: 10
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Sharp wide open, excellent colors and bokeh.
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None
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So far it is the best lens I ever owned.
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Jan 13, 2006
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Forrest Egan
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Location: United States
Posts: 6297
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Review Date: Jan 11, 2006
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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super sharp, excellent color and great bokeh
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none
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This is clearly one of the best values in an 'L' lens; even better with the Canon triple-rebate.
Excellent portrait lens, even on a 1.6x crop.
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Jan 11, 2006
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madmax200
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Registered: Aug 15, 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 1866
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Review Date: Jan 10, 2006
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Recommend? yes |
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| Rating: 10
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The best
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small a/f switch, hood is a pain and too tight.
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Wow is how I rate it. Extremely sharp with high contrast/saturation.
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Jan 10, 2006
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mngpsnut
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Registered: Jul 14, 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 77
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Review Date: Jan 9, 2006
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $845.00
| Rating: 10
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Very clear, very smooth, very good in all aspects of this lens.
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DOF for indoor ice hockey is tough to calibrate when the light is low and your at f/2.0 you need a high shutter speed to catch the stop action and sometimes background is needed for clarity. But than again, Ice Hockey is the hardest sport to photgraph.
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Sharpest L I own, and I also have the 200mm f/2.8L II! Outdoors this knocks the socks off anything you can put on a Canon camera in its range. Indoor sports like swimming, diving, gymnastics are a cinch to shoot. Did some outdoor grad photos with this lens and had great results.
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Jan 9, 2006
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jamato8
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Registered: Dec 23, 2005
Location: United States
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Review Date: Jan 8, 2006
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Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Rivals anything I have seen for sharpness. The contrast and color is something I wish all lenses possessed. When you use this lens, if the image is not sharp you can not blame the lens! I also enjoy the feel of the lens. If this were a Leica lens and cost 13 or 14 hundred I would be happy. That I can get this in Canon is excellent.
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Not a real gripe, well a little, but the focus is noisier than any L lens I have used and the lens rattles if you shake it. This is not a problem if you realize the lens is made this way. I thought something was wrong with mine but after receiving feedback on my post asking for opinions on this, I found out that it is just the way the lens is made.
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Jan 8, 2006
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uz2work
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Review Date: Jan 6, 2006
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $890.00
| Rating: 10
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sharp image quality, f2, does wonderful things to blurred backgrounds
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none
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While this focal length is not one that I do a lot of shooting at, I find myself looking for opportunities to use this length just because I find the image quality from the lens to be so pleasing.
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Jan 6, 2006
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minhster16
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Review Date: Dec 29, 2005
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Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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razor sharp, excellent contrast, color, bokeh
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size is a bit large, especially when the hood is attached.
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bought this lens based on the recommendation of many on this board, and I'm very impressed. Despite the long focal length on my 20d, I try to do all my portrait on this lens now b/c the clarity, contrast, colors are drastically different from any other lenses i own. The highly rated 85mm f1.8 pales in comparison to this lens.
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Dec 29, 2005
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carlsbadbum
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Location: United States
Posts: 1961
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Review Date: Dec 25, 2005
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Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Sharp & Fast
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Best with IS
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I can't add what is already said about this lens, so this is the best of the best in my L series collection.
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Dec 25, 2005
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gmcfly
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Location: Brazil
Posts: 81
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Review Date: Dec 20, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $870.00
| Rating: 10
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Sharp wide open.
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None.
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Wide open on FF: no CA, very sharp and a hardly perceptible vignetting.
Nice build quality. Fast AF. Beautiful bokeh.
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Dec 20, 2005
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kuere
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Location: Switzerland
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Review Date: Dec 18, 2005
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| Rating: 10
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Sharp and nice colors
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It is a little heavy
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I've bought this beauty on a business trip to Tokyo. What a nicxe experience first time installed on my new 5 D - sharp and nice color. Best buy for my 5D.
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Dec 18, 2005
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smac
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Review Date: Dec 10, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $799.00
| Rating: 10
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This is the sharpest lens I have ever used, bar none. And I've used a lot! I shoot a lot of night int wide open and it is superlative beyond description.
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Dec 10, 2005
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tanglefoot47
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Review Date: Dec 5, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $900.00
| Rating: 10
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Sharp and fast focus, color and contrast
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None
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All I can say is wow, I have read so much about this lens and how good it is. This lens blew me away the first time I used it in a dimly lit school gym. Cranked up my 20D to 1600 and got the best shots ever in these conditions
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Dec 5, 2005
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