Re: Almost flawless! 35mm f/2 IS USM review
Jonathan Brady wrote:There are some great images in this thread: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1264523
Site listed in the first post is down, and I don't have the inclination to trawl through 51 pages of a forum discussion looking for good photos.
As for it being an overstatement... well... the review was my OPINION. I feel like it's a perfectly accurate statement of how I see this lens. And since it's a review I wrote, it doesn't really matter what you think at the end of the day.
Agree.
Additionally, IMO, it's ABSOLUTELY POINTLESS to blame a piece of a equipment for not having something that's not part of the specifications.
Disagree.
To fault an f/2 lens for not being f/1.4 is just ....
I never said that.
Similarly, to fault a non-IS lens for not having IS is just ....
I never said that.
Same goes for a non-L lens not being an L lens.
I never said that.
If your reading comprehension sucks so bad that that you can't figure these things out before buying, perhaps you shouldn't be buying the product in the first place.
Right you are.
How can someone fault a piece of equipment for NOT being something it's not? (I hate this hammer, it SUCKS at screwing in screws! lol) Additionally, if it did have a particular specification a user wanted, it would no longer BE that prior item. For instance, if this lens had a 1.4 aperture, it would no longer be an f/2 lens, making it an ENTIRELY different product (larger, heavier, needing a different/more powerful focusing motor to achieve the same focusing speed, more expensive, etc.) and therefore it would have a different price, value proposition, and utility. Not to mention it would be the first of it's kind in the world (a stabilized f/1.4). Oh wait, it was already the first of it's kind for Canon (a stabilized f/2).
So, if you were ragging on this lens for not being what it clearly isn't... how about you reconsider that position...
So, to restate... given that this is the EF 35mm f/2 IS USM, I feel it's ALMOST PERFECT.
So, just to be absolutely clear then, your point is that this is the very best EF 35mm f2 IS lens in the world, in fact it's "almost perfect" at being an EF 35mm f2 IS. No other EF 35mm f2 IS lens can match it. And it'd be wrong to compare it to any other kind of 35mm lens, because that would be like comparing apples to oranges. Right?