12-04-2018, 02:44 PM
(12-03-2018, 10:59 AM)Rover Wrote: Well, what do you expect - the new one has 15 elements vs. 8. The old one also sucked pretty hard with regard to IQ, last I checked.Tests don’t tell the whole story. I had mine calibrated by Canon, to get around the focusing problems back then, and it has been a stellar performer since.
The way it renders an image is absolutely magnificent, to me anyway, but then, tastes do differ. There is a reason, however, that it is used by many Canon professionals (which I am not, I hasten to say)
.Kind regards, Wim
Gear: Canon EOS R with 3 primes and 2 zooms, 4 EF-R adapters, Canon EOS 5 (analog), 9 Canon EF primes, a lone Canon EF zoom, 2 extenders, 2 converters, tubes; Olympus OM-D 1 Mk II & Pen F with 12 primes, 6 zooms, and 3 Metabones EF-MFT adapters ....