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PickledEyes
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Registered: Jul 29, 2003
Location: United States
Posts: 49
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Review Date: Jan 21, 2004
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $795.00
| Rating: 10
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Razor sharp pictures, and excellent blurred backgrounds. Simply amazing optical glass.
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None noted
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The Canon 135 f/2l is in a league of its own when it comes to quality. I have taken shots with this lens that were sharp to the tune of picking out individual panes of glass off Alcatraz Prison from beyond the Golden Gate bridge! And to boot it was handheld. The lens looks great on the 10D, and balances well in your hands. There is a lot of good glass in this remarkable prime. Get one, and you won't be sorry.
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 Jan 21, 2004
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AlexF
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Location: United States
Posts: 1007
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Review Date: Dec 22, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $775.00
| Rating: 10
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sharpnes, bokeh, speed, handling
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none
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used both versions of 70-200 f4&f2.8 and replaced them with this lens.
Amazing sharpness and bokeh with an acceptable weight.
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Dec 22, 2003
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wcbert
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Location: United States
Posts: 839
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Review Date: Dec 9, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $850.00
| Rating: 10
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It is black, light, sharp and fast!
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None
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This lens has become my favorite lens for capturing candid photos of people. My 70-200mm 2.8L IS was. But it is heavy, long, white and attracts to much attention. With 1.4x extender I have 188mm 2.8L lens and this combination permits me to take photos without attracting attention and the quality of the photos taken are on the same level as my 70-200mm 2.8L. I wonder if I got this lens first would have bought a 70-200mm 2.8L IS, maybe not.
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Dec 9, 2003
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spartan123
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Registered: Nov 9, 2003
Location: United States
Posts: 3683
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Review Date: Dec 3, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $850.00
| Rating: 10
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Everything
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None
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All a person can say is "WOW". The pictures are incredible.
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Dec 3, 2003
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Lars Johnsson
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Location: Sweden
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Review Date: Nov 19, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $850.00
| Rating: 10
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Very very sharp, fast, beautiful bokeh
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None
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This lens is incredibly sharp, even wide open. Great colour & contrast. It's my favorite lens. It's probably the only lens that I never hesitate to use wide open all the time.
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Nov 19, 2003
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Richard Smith
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Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 517
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Review Date: Nov 3, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $600.00
| Rating: 10
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Sharp, Fast, Reasonably Compact.
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None
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Complete agreement with all the previous reviews. My first 'L' Prime and it has not dissapointed.
Quite often carry this with the 1.4x TC instead of the larger and heavier 70-200mm.
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Nov 3, 2003
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cristina
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Jul 14, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $800.00
| Rating: 10
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Fast AF, VERY Sharp!
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None
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This is one of my favorite Canon lenses. The AF focus is extremely fast; but its best feature is sharpness. It is excellent for pet portraits, where a lot of fur detail is required.
Absolutely love it !!!! I haven't used my zooms since I purchased it.
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Jul 14, 2003
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dominique E
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Location: France
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Review Date: Jun 13, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $900.00
| Rating: 10
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very sharp, fast focusing
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none
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One of my sharpest canon lenses and I love it. Still very good with the1.4 tc. Beautiful bokeh from wide open on. Better than my 2,8/70-200 L IS. Great for shooting indoor sports!
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Jun 13, 2003
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hugoso
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Location: China
Posts: 291
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Review Date: May 27, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $770.00
| Rating: 10
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Sharp and contrasty.
Excellent handling and balance with 10D
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Nothing. Just a bit long on the 10D.
Looking forward to using this lens in a full frame DSLR.
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I noted that the "MKI", older products with hard case, is a bit warmer than the recent "MKII".
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May 27, 2003
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SportsPix
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Location: United States
Posts: 151
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Review Date: Apr 6, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $750.00
| Rating: 10
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Amazingly sharp with very high contrast. Reasonably light and compact given its lens speed and once you have used it for a short time you;ll consider it a great value.
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Hmmm, I can't think of any.
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I love this lens on a film body for people! This baby is right up there with the EF 200 1.8L for lens sharpness and contrast. Deep hood works well but is huge! I love the images on film though and the shallow DOF and blown out backgrounds are amazing to all who look at images I've shot with it. Alas for the digiratti this lens may have grown too long for its best role.
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Apr 6, 2003
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Roger Cavanagh
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Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1381
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Review Date: Apr 2, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Images have great crispnesss, colour, clarity, contrast and excellent bokeh. Nice size and weight to carry around.
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None really - though it would be nice to have IS.
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This is my favourite lens. In the UK it is now around GBP 750 as it's got cheaper since I bought it 15 months ago. I cannot imagine anyone not falling in love with this lens.
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Apr 2, 2003
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Jack Flesher
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Registered: Oct 23, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 3489
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Review Date: Apr 1, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $650.00
| Rating: 10
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Sharp. Very sharp. Fast focusing.
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None
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Great handling and very sharp lens. I love it!
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Apr 1, 2003
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Harold St
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Registered: Sep 16, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 786
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Review Date: Mar 31, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $775.00
| Rating: 10
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Image Quality, Build Quality
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None
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Just adding my highest rating for this lens. I purchased this lens in lieu of the 70-200mm f2.8 because I wanted a less conspicuous (smaller and black) lens. I haven't been disappointed in any way. The lens produces amazingly sharp pictures with beautiful bokeh from wide open on.
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Mar 31, 2003
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dave chilvers
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Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1620
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Review Date: Mar 30, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Bright sharp viewfinder, great out of focus backgrounds, Cost for an `L` lens,easy to carry on camera, usable wide open.
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Lens hood is quite large(as it might need to be) but it does make carrying several lenses with hoods a bit of a problem but expecting a built in hood would probably be wishful thinking.
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Certainly one of the sharpest lens I have ever used( the only other SLR lens that I think comes close was the Leica 100mm apo macro or maybe the 90 apo Leica`M` lens) I think the ability to throw the background out of focus easily helps to make the image stand out from the background.Can you judge a good lens by the amount of sharpening you require? if so then this is the sharpest. I did various tests against my other lenses (50 1.8, 100 2.8 macro,70-200 2.8 IS) and these three were all very close to each other and it was quite hard to split them but the 135 f2 stuck out like a sore thumb with less sharpening required. Stick on the 1.4 and (IMHO) there seems to be little change, superb sub £1000 L glass and a treat to carry it around with the 1.4 as opposed to the 70-200.Don`t get me wrong, the 70-200 is superb but the 135 is better. This lens is usable wide open.
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Mar 30, 2003
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rebel300
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Posts: 13833
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Review Date: Mar 29, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $875.00
| Rating: 10
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Incredibly sharp
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no negatives
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Great color, super extreme sharpness. IMO the sharpest lens in the Canon line day in a day out.
A must have for Sports Photographers. Use the 1.4 TC with it and the detail loss is minimal.
I rate this lens at 4.9 on a 5 scale
LM
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Mar 29, 2003
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