List of rumored lenses

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GMCPhotographics said:
wayno said:
Is the 16-35 ii good sharp at edges at F8 at 16? I'd be surprised.

I've been using one for 4 years now....have you tried one? I hope you aren't basing your opinions on forum chatter. Please take a look at my flickr page and see if there are any landscapes where the 16-35IIL is found to be lacking...then again, I never found the 17-40L particularly lacking either. Both are excellent lenses.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23849425@N06/

I haven't used one but I've read reviews to suggest its still a bit soft around the edges at F8, just as I feel the 17-40 is. I love the 17-40, I think it's dead sharp across most of the frame but certainly is far from perfect around the corners. I always took the 16-35 to be optically pretty similar to the 17-40 after about 5.6... I assume yours is sharp to the edges from the sounds of it.
 
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GMCPhotographics said:
wayno said:
Is the 16-35 ii good sharp at edges at F8 at 16? I'd be surprised.

I've been using one for 4 years now....have you tried one? I hope you aren't basing your opinions on forum chatter. Please take a look at my flickr page and see if there are any landscapes where the 16-35IIL is found to be lacking...then again, I never found the 17-40L particularly lacking either. Both are excellent lenses.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23849425@N06/

Now you might be right, but a couple of low-resolution images on flickr are unable to show the technical merits of the lens (I like the photos though) because nearly everything looks sharp down-sized so much...
 
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caruser said:
Now you might be right, but a couple of low-resolution images on flickr are unable to show the technical merits of the lens (I like the photos though) because nearly everything looks sharp down-sized so much...
+1 We need 100% magnification for this. A screenshot from a corner of a 100% enlarged image could do I guess...
 
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wayno said:
florianbieler.de said:
Oh you mean like the 35 1.4 which is a big ass dream contrary to the older 50 1.4 and 85 1.4 which just ****** up on every full frame?

Not on every full frame. My Sigma 85 works like a dream. AF is fine.

Not in my experience. The Sigma 50mm has a horrendous in-consistency getting focus.
 
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RLPhoto said:
wayno said:
florianbieler.de said:
Oh you mean like the 35 1.4 which is a big ass dream contrary to the older 50 1.4 and 85 1.4 which just ****** up on every full frame?

Not on every full frame. My Sigma 85 works like a dream. AF is fine.

Not in my experience. The Sigma 50mm has a horrendous in-consistency getting focus.

Same for me. I got it once to play around with, sharpness is really nice but it not only focused wrong, it even focused wrong differently when focusing near or far so you couldn't even correct it with in-camera focus correction. Some people apparently have sent in their cameras and the lens to let it adjust at Sigma but boy I won't send them my 5D3 so that they can play around and adapt their lens to my body. This seems to happen mainly on full frame cameras and also with the 85mm.
 
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Newbie here.
Was I the only one who bit on this joke?

Now, if you must know, I'm a lefty!
And I ordered my first digital SLR on Saturday from the Canon eStore.
Logged on this morning and saw the joke.

First thought it would be a 7D Professional, like the EF lenses with the "L" in their designation.

Wondered for a moment if I could cancel my existing order, and get a 7DL instead.
 
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RGF said:
I believe that I have read discussions (though not a rumor) that the 45 and 90 TS would be replaced. Or is this wishful thinking on my part?

I'm not really sure that a pair of oddball, low volume, niche architectural pro lenses would constitute a "big" announcement. Maybe these two, a 35IIL, 200LIS macro and a 100-400IIL would though!
 
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