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Canon should discontinue this

Started Sep 22, 2014 | User reviews thread
Scott Larson Veteran Member • Posts: 7,505
Re: Canon should discontinue this

Michael Thomas Mitchell wrote:
At the time, however, the lens was really unique because (if I recall correctly) it was the only standard zoom available with image stabilization. In fact, wasn't it just one of two lens with the stabilization feature, the other being the 70-300?

Heck yeah! It was the first EF lens I ever bought and the first zoom lens I had ever used. It sounded like the perfect lens.

But the second EF lens I bought, the 100mm f2, was such a huge increase in image quality that I couldn't think of using the zoom except in cases where I could stop it down, try to keep bright light sources out of the frame, and accept lower image quality except in unexplainable cases where the lens performed really well.

I was also using the D30.

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