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Subject: [Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:18:12 -0500
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On Oct 19, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:
> Both versions of the 16-35 are very, very poor and need to be stopped down
> to f/8 at least but will still show many aberrations at the edges.
This was the first Canon lens I bought - within a week or two I dumped it -
just awful.
> I haven't used the 24-70, but the earlier 70-200 2.8 and 2.8 IS were not
> that great. The current IS v.II is quite good, but very heavy and large.
I'd reserve "great" for my Leica 100 and 180 Apo and 50 lux asph lenses.
My first generation 70-200 2.8 IS certainly wouldn't qualify as "great"
though my particular copy of it performs fairly well on the 5D.
I wonder if this one of those "you might get a good one" situations.
Regards,
George Lottermoser
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