gawaine maxwell wrote:
>
> Hello Skip
> I have this lens and cannot recommend it highly enough. It is well built,
> quiet and very sharp. I have not used the f2.8 but I believe it is almost
> twice the weight. I decided to go for the f4 rather than the f2.8 because I
> felt it would be more practical and less likely to be left at home than the
> bulky f2.8, furthermore it is a practical handheld lens. It has been claimed
> that it is actually higher quality than the f2.8 and it certainly contains a
> lot more fluorite elements than the f2.8 if that is any measure of quality.
> I read a review in Amateur Photography where the guy doing the bench testing
> said that in 27 years of testing zooms in this range this was the finest he
> had ever tested-in terms of optical quality, construction, design and ease
> of use. I frequently use mine with the Canon 1.4x & 2x extenders and the
> images remain remarkabley sharp. With the 2x extender one has to use manual
> focus but I find the design of the lens so good that reverting to MF is
> completely natural and easy to do. Go for it !!!
> In reply to Kenneth Darling Sorensen regarding the hood for this
> lens, mine is the ET-74 and it definetly fits perfectly.
> kind regards
> Gawaine
>
Great, guys! Thanks for the responses, that looks like what Heather will
be getting as a belated Mother's day gift, or something like that...
Skip
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