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Originally Posted by GME  Glad you're pleased with it. What will you mostly use it for? I was considering it and at the price you mention even more so. |
There were a number of reasons for the purchase, firstly I wanted it as a light weight general purpose walk about lens and at 705gm it fitted the bill. I have a 70-300mm DO lense and have not been too impressed with the image sharpness on this one and it also produces some strange background effects which I was not too keen on. The 70-200mm was to replace this lens and based on shots taken to date the 70-200mm f4 certainly produces much sharper pictures with a more pleasing out of focus background. The other reason was that I had a FD 70-210mm in the days of film which was my favourite and most used lens and I wanted to replace it with a EF EOS compatable lens.
Obviously on a cropped sensor it becomes a 112-320mm lens and will accept a 1.4 teleconvertor without any noticeable image degradation or loss of AF giving a 156-448mm in 35mm film equivalent so it provides a useful range of focal lengths.
Use to date has been portrait shots, small mammals, flowers and water fowl. The images are exceptionally sharp and I would say it is probably one of the best L lenses Canon have produced for the price.
Gerry