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Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
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Review Date: Sep 10, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $2,200.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Well build. Sharp and crisp images.
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Cons:
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Not wide enough on a 10D.
Price.
Size and weight
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I like this lens a lot. It has a very fine zoomrange for travelling with a 10D. Though i sometimes can use a bit more wideangle. It is very sharp for a zoomlens, but it is not up to the standards of a prime. It is useable wide open, but it gets better if you stop it down 2 stops.
Highly recommended.
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Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM
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Review Date: Sep 10, 2003
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Recommend? no |
Price paid: $1,360.00
| Rating: 2
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Pros:
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Well build. Good zoomrange.
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Cons:
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Optical quality.
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I have now tried 3 different copies of this lens, and i have returned all 3 of them. The images are so soft, that they are not usable for my purposes. I have done the testing with a D60 and a 10D. I suspect that the results in the corners will be even worse on a fullframe-camera.
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Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM
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Review Date: Apr 10, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $2,000.00
| Rating: 6
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Pros:
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Very large aperture,
Build quality,
Sharp and crisp pictures
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Cons:
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Price,
Autofocus
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Imagequality is very good, except for the corners at aperture 1,4. The autofocus is slow for a USM-lens. It glides into focus, where other USM-lenses snaps into focus. No doubt it's a good lens, but if you don't need aperture 1,4 go for the 2,8 version. This lens i much too expensive for what you get. I sold mine to get the 16-35mm.
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Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS USM
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Review Date: Apr 1, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $4,300.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Sharpness,
Contrast,
Colorrendition,
Bokeh,
Autofocus,
IS,
Build quality
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Cons:
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Weight,
Price
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This is no doubt the sharpest lense i have ever had. Images are very sharp and crisp from max aperture. Colorrendition and bokeh is execellent. Autofucus is very very fast even on a slow camera like the D60. The build quality is very good. German Fotomagazin rates this lense as the best they have ever tested (including Zeiss, Leica and the other IS-superteles). German Colorfoto rates it as the best 400mm available. One of the problems with this lense is the very small DOF at close distances. So if i am close to the subject i normally stop down one or two stops. Another problem is the weight. Forget about handholding this lense (IS doesn't help much). You will need a Wimberly head or a Manfrotto 3421. The price is high, but you get what you pay for! I haven't testet it with TC's yet, but i guess performance is similar to the smaller brother 300 2,8 L IS.
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