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Old 31-01-2012, 08:33 AM
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acropolite (Phil)
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I have a few L lenses as well as a couple of others.
I agree completely with H on the 70-200 F4 IS, it's everything you would expect from an L series Lens. The 24-105 F4L is good (sharp throughout the range) but with some deficiencies, namely barrel distortion and CA, although both are easily corrected with DPP. My opinion of the 16-35 F2.8 L is not good, my copy at least, is very soft at the edges (last 20%) at all apertures, edge softness is a common complaint with this lens. For portrait work the edge softness isn't an issue and the constant f2.8 aperture is desirable, but for landscape the softness defeats the purpose of that lovely full frame high res sensor.

The 100mm F2.8 Macro in either variant is an excellent lens, if you like fisheyes then the 15mm f2.8 fisheye (full frame not circular) is also an excellent lens and very sharp. The 15mm fish is not good for astro work as the abberations at the edge of the frame translate to large triangular stars.
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