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The Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM
Lens has an excellent focal length range that includes the longest focal
length found in a Canon zoom lens. This long focal length and focal length range
combine with very good image and build quality to make the 100-400 one of the
most popular serious wildlife and sports lenses [...]
February 20th, 2008 | Posted in Lens Review | No Comments
The Canon EF 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM Lens
is a mid-grade long telephoto zoom lens.
Introduced in 1990, the Canon EF 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM Lens is built
reasonably well. The finish does not appear modern, but the build quality is
decent. A metal lens mount shows that the 100-300 is not a bottom-of-the-line
lens.
AF is very fast and quiet. The [...]
February 20th, 2008 | Posted in Lens Review | No Comments
The Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM
Lens is a relatively small, very light and very cheap lens
for this focal length range.
The Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM Lens is really cheap. Usually you get what
you pay for - unfortunately this is the case with the Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6
III USM Lens.
Build quality of the [...]
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The Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM
Lens is an ultra-compact and very well built telephoto zoom lens
with excellent image stabilization.
I was immediately impressed by the solid build quality of the Canon EF 70-300mm
f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM Lens. It is not a light lens (1.6 lb / 720g) for its size
(3.2″ x 3.9″ / [...]
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With the introduction of the Canon EF
70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens, Canon has replaced one of its most popular lenses
and its first image stabilized lens - the Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 IS. The
75-300mm IS lens was popular because of its useful focal length range, small
size, light weight, midrange price and Image Stabilization. The Canon [...]
February 20th, 2008 | Posted in Lens Review | No Comments
The Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM Lens
is my favorite and most-used lens.
Combining a very popular and very useful focal length range with
excellent image quality, professional build quality, superb autofocus
performance, a fast aperture and one of my favorite features - Canon’s
valuable 3-stop Image Stabilization - makes the 70-200 IS one of [...]
February 20th, 2008 | Posted in Lens Review | No Comments
The Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM Lens is
a middle child in the very popular Canon L Series 70-200mm family.
The 70-200mm L lens family shows many genetic similarities aside from their
obvious focal length range similarity. Top notch image quality with
build quality to match is at the top of the list. All have constant [...]
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Take one of Canon’s most popular lenses,
the Canon 70-200mm f/4 L, add an up-to-4-stop Image Stabilizer and you
get the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM Lens. If you don’t need the
subject-action-stopping and background-blurring capabilities of the faster Canon
EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS Lens, this lens will deliver everything else you need in a
smaller, [...]
February 20th, 2008 | Posted in Lens Review | No Comments
The Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM Lens is
arguably Canon’s best value “L” Lens combining professional grade
build and optical qualities.
Though solidly built, the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM Lens is
relatively light (25 oz / 705g). Actually it is very light and small
compared to the much more substantial Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 L [...]
February 20th, 2008 | Posted in Lens Review | No Comments
The Canon EF 55-200mm f/4.5-5.6 II USM
Lens is very light and compact, focuses fast, has a good
focal length range and is inexpensive.
There is a Canon Lens Chart floating around that lists the Canon EF 55-200mm
f/4.5-5.6 II USM Lens as weighing 3.4 lbs. I can assure you that a scale would
require many of them to [...]
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