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- Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 L
- Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
- Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens
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Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM - Review @ The Digital Picture
The Digital Picture has recently posted their review on Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM and wrote:
” The Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens has decent sharpness wide open and good sharpness when stopped down a stop or so. Corner sharpness is good even at full frame. The long end of the focal length continues to be the weakest performing over the range. Overall, sharpness is definitely improved from the 75-300 IS.
The Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens exhibits barrel distortion (on a full frame body from 70mm to 120mm or so. Slight pincushion distortion is visible at 300mm. CA is very well controlled.
Light fall-off is quite noticeable wide open (f/5) at 200mm and improves slowly as the focal length is increased or decreased - or the lens is stopped down one stop. Light fall-off is still noticeable at 100mm f/4.5 and 300mm f/5.6. 1.3x and 1.6x FOVCF body users will avoid most of this issue. “
Canon EOS 5D with Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS Sample Photos
Francesco has just posted his personal test of Canon EOS 5d with Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM and commented:
“It is certainly a fantastic lens. Unfortunately too heavy, big and intrusively obvious to be used as a walkaround lens. Great for sport / high movement and certainly for portraits in available light. I found the fall-off (vignette) at 70-100mm a little bit too much but looks overall nice in the pictures.”
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Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM - Review by The Digital Picture
The Digital Picture reviewed Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM and commented:
” The Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens’ color and contrast are excellent. The rectangular baffle (above) over the rear of the lens is purposed to increase contrast and reduce flare/ghosting. CA (Chromatic Aberration) is well controlled with some CA visible at 24mm in very harsh contrast situations - mostly at full-frame edges.
Eight circular aperture blades provide excellent quality defocused image quality (bokeh - foreground/background blur). While f/4 in this focal length range is not the best at creating diffusely blurred backgrounds, close subjects at 105mm can have pleasingly defocused backgrounds.
Canon’s latest generation Image Stabilizer (IS) provides an additional 3-stops of handholdability in the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens. This is definitely my favorite feature of the 24-105 L. The 24-105 L’s IS is very quiet and very well behaved (does not jump when starting, …). IS does not stop subject motion blur, but it is excellent for stopping camera shake. IS allows use of narrower aperture settings to increase DOF (Depth of Field) in handheld shots with non-moving subjects (landscapes, sculptures, art …). IS allows use of longer shutter speeds to create motion blurs - such as moving water. “
Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM Repair Notice
Canon USA has announced service notice regarding Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM flare problems:
We have recently discovered a problem with early production samples of the EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens in which flare occurs at an unacceptable level under certain conditions. The flare is most obvious in the wide zoom and wide aperture settings
Canon 35mm f/1.4 L
The Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM is a large-diameter wide-angle lens with f/1.4 capability that optimises brightness. It is the successor to the EF 24mm f/1.4 USM and further complements the Canon L-series of wide-angle lenses. The optical system includes a polished aspherical lens along with a floating element, providing high image quality with outstanding correction for both wide f/1.4 aperture and aberration effects and outstanding definition over the entire image area. In addition, the lens’s ring USM and silent AF operation make it an outstanding L-series lens for both professional and advanced amateur users.
REVIEWS (last update: 25.10.05)
Canon 10-22mm VS Sigma 18-50mm @ 18mm
Klam has posted his sample test of Canon 10-22 and Sigma 18-50mm at FredMiranda forum and commented:
“I conducted the test on an overlapping focal length of 18mm. Since I frequently shot my 18-50 at 18mm, I knew I should try to find something wider, which is the reason that I picked up the 10-22.These 100% crops were shot on tripod, delayed timer, RAW straight converted using Canon DPP.
Both lenses are very decent in the centre. The Canon doesn’t seem to show as much improvement and is quite good “wide open” at f/4.0.
The Sigma looks very soft in the corners at f/2.8. At f/4.0 it improves very slightly but still seems soft. Everything is ok by f/8.0. On the other hand the Canon shows a lot of corner detail even at its “wide open” setting of f/4.0. Overall the Canon is a lot better in the corners.”
- Canon 10-22 VS Sigma 18-50 @ 18mm @ Centre
- Canon 10-22 VS Sigma 18-50 @ 18mm @ Upper left-corner
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM - Review @ BobAtkins
Bobatkins.com tested and reviewed the Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM and wrote:
“..lens is sharper at f5.6 than the old lens was at f8. Don’t get carried away though, since despite using a UD glass element, it’s still not as sharp as the 300/4L. Even the new lens benefits by stopping down to f8. With an EOS 20D and at f8, on real world targets, image quality almost approached that of the 300/4L is some shots. However on resolution test charts the 300/4L showed higher contrast and resolution. Still, the performance of the new lens is pretty good.
..the new EF70-300/4-5.6 IS fits the bill as an ideal “walking around” lens for nature, travel and sports photographers. It’s small enough and light enough to carry around as part of a kit (it would pair well with an EF-S 17-85/3.5-5.6 USM) and the image quality and stabilization are improved enough over the old lens to justify its additional cost. ..”
Canon 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM Samples
Guitarman has some samples from Canon 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM with Canon 20D at his website:
@ 300mm:
@300mm and Tamron 1.4x SP(pro)TC
More samples are available here
Comparison of Canon Midrange Zooms
Acapixus did a comparison of Canon EF 24-105/4.0 L IS USM versus a EF 28-105/3.5-4.5 USM and a EF 28-135/3.5-5.6 IS USM versus Canon EF 17-35/2.8 L USM versus Canon EF 50/1.4 USM versus Canon EF 100/2.8 USM macro.
The comparison was shot at ifferent focal length and at different f-stops using a Canon EOS 10D set at ISO 100. The camera was tripod mounted. Images were captured as RAW and converted to 24 bit TIFF files using DPP 1.503. Sharpness was set to 0 (no sharpening) and no other postprocessing has been applied to the images. 200×200 pixel crops were excised from the centre and periphery and saved as TIFF prior to conversion as JPEG files
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM - Review by Spoli58
Spoli58, a FredMiranda forum member, posted an extensive report on Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM and wrote:
“- Overall impression: good quality optics, better than EF 55-200, probably not L grade but not too far if you consider the price and the class of this lens.
- In the range 70 to 85mm @ F8…F11 the results look similar to my EF-S 17-85mm IS USM, surprisingly sharp at the corners (hard to see real differences in terms of sharpness and geometrical distortions) — great outdoor lens in good light conditions.
- At F8 the image is sharp for almost the entire focal range — at the long end (between 200-300mm) the image looks a bit soft without affecting the resolution — maybe it’s just the fact that I’m using a cheap tripod and IS turned on rather than a rock solid tripod, mirror lock and no IS.
