Take a look at http://www.photodo.com/. They have some very nice
reviews of lenses up. More accurate I think than the ones at slrgear.
At least one review at slrgear was in such conflict with other
reviews elsewhere that I wrote them to ask them about it and I got a
really disappointing reply that ignored the substance of what I said.
Completely convinced they could not make a mistake in spite of the
fact that they had recently made a mistake and "corrected" it with
very questionable methods.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Oct 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> " I would only really need it if I get the 70-300 DO.
>> Maybe someday I would consider an
>> EOS mount 300mm but I haven't even looked at any descriptions of them
>> yet."
>
>
> The 70-300 may have your name, errrr, picture on it: scroll down a
> tad.
>
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/Canon-70-300mm.shtml
>
> The DO's look like good performers in a quite small package.
>
> I can't get off square one on deciding on a AF lens for a 5D---no
> time to think for a few weeks yet.
> Will likely use it as digital film for Zuikos for awhile unless
> swing for the double rebate for a 24-105 f4 IS.
> Pnet has mixed reviews as well. The vignetting is complained about
> vociferously (not hard to fix), modest flare issue; but the
> softness in the corners at Fl>70-85 or so is a major issue. Some
> have used DXO optics Pro to recapture some resolution (some were
> very satisfied with this approach, not just in comments on their
> sponsored web site) and fix the higher CA on FF and vignetting in
> one shot. Others have used PTlens (whole lot cheaper), though it
> doesn't do the deconvolution analysis or other technique to regain
> some res in the corners. Hard to justify springing for multi 100
> dol software to fix a >1K lens, though may be a satisfactory
> solution. Johnny clearly likes the lens just fine (as do others)
> in his landscape applications, when it is stopped down a bit.
> Other options: Tokina ala Chuck, Tamron or just start with Tamron
> MF 35-105 f2.8 adaptall.
>
> http://www.slrgear.com/reviews/showproduct.php/product/145/cat/11
>
> Mike
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