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Canon should discontinue this

Started Sep 22, 2014 | User reviews thread
EduPortas Contributing Member • Posts: 839
Re: Canon should discontinue this

Scott Larson wrote:

EduPortas wrote:

I agree. I tried using this lens for video on my 6D and IQ was not good at all

(video tends to bring out the best and worst of all lenses).

Is that due to the lower resolution of video?

Bought a nice fixed F2.8 28mm IS by Canon and the difference was astounding.

Yes, if you only intend to shoot at 28mm then by all means purchase a prime lens at that focal length.

However I don't find the center quality of the cheaper older zoom to be all that bad:

http://www.wballphotos.com/28f35.jpg

This would look fine on a 1.5X crop camera although the edges and the top of the image look pretty bad in full frame.

Yes, video format exposed the lesser qualities of the lens. That's one of the reasons videophiles are obsessed with sharpness. Even though we'll turn it down all the way when recording our footage, we will manually increase it again in PP. So the better sharpness you get natively, without any processing by the camera, will be better in the end.

As you say, the edges were unusable on FF. That was my experience on the 6D.

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