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Mr645
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Registered: Jun 7, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 1386
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Review Date: Oct 16, 2012
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $250.00
| Rating: 4
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Very sharp, even at F2.8. Decent construction. Inexpensive on the used market
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Poor contrast, poor handling, issues with flare when there is a light source facing into the lens. A decent value at a few hundred dollars.
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I traded some gear worth about $250 for this lens, Canon mount. Typical Sigma quality. Nice heavy construction, but focusing is still and requires two switches to go from AF to MF while most Canon lenses let you switch without doing anything. Wonderful sharpness, even wide open, but image contrast is not that of a Canon lens. Also, flare is a major issue, need to be very careful with lighting to get great images with this lens.
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 Oct 16, 2012
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Pi Chapman
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Registered: May 11, 2010
Location: Poland
Posts: 239
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Review Date: Dec 26, 2010
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $330.00
| Rating: 10
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One of the best price/performance ration (only Canon 50 1.8 wins here) nice colours, usually very good contrast and sharpness, very fast AF
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Loud AF, inconsistent contrast and strange flare sometimes.
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Very cheap, sharp and with great colours. It produces sometimes strange results with high flare artefacts, low contrast, but it's quite rare. For the price you pay you cant have absolutely any complaints. If you dont want to spend at least 3-5x the price for marginally better performance (I used HSM version and 24-70L) you cant go wrong with it.
Strange thing I noticed it has better light than my 24-70L, meaning my old 20D was metering 1/3 stop lower, as if it was 2.5f (without being underexposed). I wonder if anyone else has same experience.
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Dec 26, 2010
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Daniel5243
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Registered: Jul 4, 2010
Location: United States
Posts: 33
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Review Date: Oct 7, 2010
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $325.00
| Rating: 9
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If you get a good copy, it is incredibly sharp. Excellent color reproduction.
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82mm filter size
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Oct 7, 2010
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$301.67
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