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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

FBoneOne wrote:

It also shows that some of the old days lenses that still cut it today were truly amazing...

One example of an old lens that still works is the FD 85mm f1.8. I put one on my Sony NEX 5n (a 16 megapixel 1.5x crop sensor) and found no major differences between that and my EF 85mm f1.8 on my 1D Mark IV. There might be a little more purple fringing and the bokeh may be a little better with the EF lens, but the resolution was no different, the colors no different, and no image suggested that it was shot with a thirty year old lens.

Here's the old lens wide open:

Obviously zoom lenses haven't aged as well as the 28-135mm IS has shown. 

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