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MFD on 70-200 F4L IS (+1.4TC & vs 70-300L)

Started Jun 25, 2013 | Discussions thread
jitteringjr Veteran Member • Posts: 3,608
You can sell a lens you don't like.

NancyP wrote:

You rent the lens ONCE, to see if you like using it for your sport shooting. It is cheaper than regretting a purchase.

For people in rural areas, renting might make sence, but not so much when there is a good used market. If one rents a 70-200/4 IS for a week with shipping and damage waiver, they are out $100 or so guarantied. Well what if they find out they like it? Now they pay full price to buy it.

What if they buy it and don't like it? Well then they sell it and lose about the same $100. I'll take a possible loss of $100 any day over the guarantied loss of $100.

Better yet, buy used and lose nothing if you don't like it becuase you sell it for what you paid for it.

Back to the OP, I notice a little softness at close to MFD on my 70-200/4 IS but we are talking about butterfly and flower sized subjects. I haven't really done tests to see if it's just at 200mm though. For those shots, I have a macro lens though. For portraits, I never see a softness with it unless I messed something up.

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