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The best glass is free glass...
15 years ago
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You can't argue with this fact. Free lenses just rock. A very rare opportunity for me.
My uncle had in storage an old 1990's Canon film EOS camera. All Canon EOS mount lenses work on the digital bodies too, and he said they were just sitting there collecting dust.
I already have a newer film EOS rebel so I had no use for the body. He wanted to keep it around "just in case" and in which case I told him feel free to let me know and I will give him his lenses back. He had 3 lenses, 1 of which I already have and that was the 50mm F 1.8. He also had a 430 EZ flash which like my 580 EZ will ONLY work in full manual modes on a DSLR so he kept that as well.
What I ended up getting were two lenses, one of which is meh... its a film kit lens and the other is much more interesting. No L glass of course, if they had been L series lenses I think he would have had to revive me off the floor *faint*
The two lenses are the older Canon EF 28-70 3.5-4.5 and the Discontinued 28-210 F4 prime Non-L series. Of course the second one is the INTERESTING one. Its a non L version of the very popular 70-200 F4 L series lens and the predecessor to said lens. It's a prime lens, meaning it can operate at an f stop of 4.0 throughout its entire range making it the "fastest" zoom lens I own now (not to be confused with how fast the AF motor as it is SLOWER then my 55-250. Its a great lens to MF with, but the AF drive is still plenty usable in good light).
My 55-250 has Image Stabilization which in some instances is more useful then a SLIGHT 2/3rds f stop increase... but it should be a great addition to my collection and defiantly has it's uses. The lower f/stop means it can also do more artistic/ DOF shots at 200mm then either my 55-250 or 70-300 can do at that point. It is a great lens for things like portraiture and flower photography, though it doesn't have nearly as close of a macro range as my 70-300 does; which still makes that lens useful to me in addition to being compatible with the 1.4x multiplier (the 55-250 is NOT compatible with it)
As a prime lens like the 50mm it also is more consistent with things like light bleeding and theoretically can produce sharper images.
But any way you look at it; free glass is the best kind ^^ I'm not opposed to used gear and hand-me-downs, if it does the job who cares if its white and has a red ring around it? While L series glass would be a nice thing to have... I've decided it won't likely happen in my lifetime. And I'm fine with that. There are a lot of INTERESTING and cool lenses out there, especially when you dip into the older and OOP stuff. Many of which were re branded and slightly improved so they could be sold for 3x the price, such as the 70-200 F4 L.
My uncle had in storage an old 1990's Canon film EOS camera. All Canon EOS mount lenses work on the digital bodies too, and he said they were just sitting there collecting dust.
I already have a newer film EOS rebel so I had no use for the body. He wanted to keep it around "just in case" and in which case I told him feel free to let me know and I will give him his lenses back. He had 3 lenses, 1 of which I already have and that was the 50mm F 1.8. He also had a 430 EZ flash which like my 580 EZ will ONLY work in full manual modes on a DSLR so he kept that as well.
What I ended up getting were two lenses, one of which is meh... its a film kit lens and the other is much more interesting. No L glass of course, if they had been L series lenses I think he would have had to revive me off the floor *faint*
The two lenses are the older Canon EF 28-70 3.5-4.5 and the Discontinued 28-210 F4 prime Non-L series. Of course the second one is the INTERESTING one. Its a non L version of the very popular 70-200 F4 L series lens and the predecessor to said lens. It's a prime lens, meaning it can operate at an f stop of 4.0 throughout its entire range making it the "fastest" zoom lens I own now (not to be confused with how fast the AF motor as it is SLOWER then my 55-250. Its a great lens to MF with, but the AF drive is still plenty usable in good light).
My 55-250 has Image Stabilization which in some instances is more useful then a SLIGHT 2/3rds f stop increase... but it should be a great addition to my collection and defiantly has it's uses. The lower f/stop means it can also do more artistic/ DOF shots at 200mm then either my 55-250 or 70-300 can do at that point. It is a great lens for things like portraiture and flower photography, though it doesn't have nearly as close of a macro range as my 70-300 does; which still makes that lens useful to me in addition to being compatible with the 1.4x multiplier (the 55-250 is NOT compatible with it)
As a prime lens like the 50mm it also is more consistent with things like light bleeding and theoretically can produce sharper images.
But any way you look at it; free glass is the best kind ^^ I'm not opposed to used gear and hand-me-downs, if it does the job who cares if its white and has a red ring around it? While L series glass would be a nice thing to have... I've decided it won't likely happen in my lifetime. And I'm fine with that. There are a lot of INTERESTING and cool lenses out there, especially when you dip into the older and OOP stuff. Many of which were re branded and slightly improved so they could be sold for 3x the price, such as the 70-200 F4 L.
That's really nice though. Hand me downs can be just as awesome as new things. Make good use of it~
Hooray for backwards compatibility.