p.3 #8 · Now or Never Again: B&H has your perfect lens:
I have one and it back focuses at 1,000 feet wide open and has some weird focus shift at minimum distance between f/5.6 and f/8. For such an expensive lens this is absolutely unacceptable. I've sent it back to Canon 12 times for recalibration and they have been unable to come up with a fix. As an example of the poor performance of this overpriced piece of garbage I photographed a fly at 1,000 feet and it's antenna was out of focus and the rear section of its wings were sharply in focus, showing how bad the back focus problem is. I would not recommend this lens to anyone until Canon recognizes that they do have a problem and comes up with fix or I get a credit for the full amount on my next purchase. I would take the lens back to Cannon personally but the 16 wheel van I use for transport is currently in the shop for repair.
Edited by looscanon on Dec 30, 2007 at 10:44 AM GMT
p.3 #16 · Now or Never Again: B&H has your perfect lens:
dmclogger wrote:
Does it come in black
Logger, welcome to the FM forum.
I am sure you will feel at home here. As you should soon find out, we have our own paint-superteles-black lunatic fringe home team .
p.3 #17 · Now or Never Again: B&H has your perfect lens:
I was at the used counter at B&H last week when an employee came out and told the guy who was helping me that they'd put a price on 'it.' My guy said '$100,000?' Nope, $99,000 he said. I was so sure I was misunderstanding something, I didn't even ask what could be 100K used. Now I know.
p.3 #18 · Now or Never Again: B&H has your perfect lens:
Navyblue wrote:
The owner can no longer afford to tip the porters at the airport for carrying this beast.
Porters? I think it has more to do with rising gas prices. It's probably getting expensive to run the van that's required to not only haul the lens around but carry the half dozen sherpas that carry the lens, trunk, tripods, etc... That or maybe the extra weight is costing the owner extra fuel to run his private airplane and putting a dent in the milage.
