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If You Get A Good Copy It's AMAZING Locked

Started Dec 9, 2020 | User reviews thread
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highdesertmesa
highdesertmesa Senior Member • Posts: 1,241
Re: Post up the original

RDM5546 wrote:

ProDude wrote:

pdqgp wrote:

I am glad to see however, that it's working for you and if Amazing is the word that describes it in your use, then there's nothing wrong with that. My wife calls me amazing at times too but I've yet to get that consistent review from everyone but then, it only matters to one person just like this lens to you.

Cheers.

Sorry for the hyperbole but after my initial experience with a decentered copy I suppose I may have gone off the deep end with excitement that the replacement copy was so very much better it was like getting over the Flu. Normal was GREAT! However it is interesting to note how much this lens is battered by so many yet the professional reviewers out there, while pointing out it's weaknesses (as they do with virtually ALL lenses) that they also end up commenting they are keeping it for those times one is running around and are able to capture things they would otherwise have missed. That has significant value.

I'll stand by the fact that at pretty much across the board that up to 1/2 the image in the file mostly in the center is dang sharp and needs NO apologies. Sure, the corners are not perfect, but frankly in most cases that's not the end all be all critical factor of a good lens.

Glad your wife approves of you as special.

I have owned several 10X lenses and none are as great as primes from end to end of the focal range but this one is the best 10X zoom I have owned. So for me it is amazing for a handy range 10X zoom. I had a big white EF 35-350mmL USM I paid more than $2000 for in 1993 that I just sold after getting this lens. I took some great shots with that big white lens but this much cheaper RF Lenses is amazing and it was not amazing but just good in the center wide open. I hope the RF 24-240mm lasts me 28 years and still sell for pretty high price like the 35-350L did. I got change back on my upgrade to the RF 24-240!! enough change for me to buy the RF 35mmf1.8 and the RF 50mmf1.8 two more RF lenses idiots like to whine about being less than perfect in their opinion!!

I find the RF 1.8 lenses easy to love, especially the 50.

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