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Canon lens test : For a very brief time (actually less than 24 hours), I had the privilege of trying out the venerable Canon 70-200/2.8L IS lens. This lens costs about $1600 new and the "L" in the name stands for "Luxury". It is a massive lens, very heavy, but it feels extremely solid and the focusing was about as quick as anything I've ever used. So I decided to try out this lens and my other lenses on a Canon 40D crop-sensor body. Of course, any test is only as good as how well the conditions are controlled and I tried my best to duplicate the settings for the shots. The lighting was identical and I tried to crop the frame exactly similar in each shot (the images below are 100% crops of those pictures). One thing I probably should have done is lock the mirror up to prevent excessive vibration, especially at smaller (higher) apertures. This may explain to some degree why the high aperture images are less clear. The caption will describe the lens used and F-stop, etc. These photos will probably be best compared side-by-side in two separate browser windows and the images should probably be viewed in the "Original" size format. I was particularly surprised at the performance of the 70-300 lens when compared to the 70-200L. From what I've read in other lens reviews, the 70-200L would perform better on a full frame sensor body. However, from my tests, the 70-300 comes very close to its performance on a crop sensor (APS-C) body like the 40D. I was also somewhat disappointed with the performance of the 50mm/1.8 prime, especially at apertures wider than f5.6. Even though this is an inexpensive lens (about $85 at B&H Photo), it is touted as a great performer but either my copy is bad or those reviewers were smoking something funny! :-)

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