Comments on: Canon EOS 40D – mini Review + Problems

By: Roman Tarnavski

Roman Tarnavski — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:43:21 +0000

That’s unfortunate about the 70-200, as that’s one of the corner-stones of Canons L lenses, although that would be the f/4 and not IS.
Speaking of which, am thinking of getting one.

By: Charles Tomalin

Charles Tomalin — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:29:55 +0000

I’m inclined to agree with S Clark above. I bought two lenses this year, a 24-105mm L IS – definitely soft – and the 70-200 F4 L IS – amazingly sharp (you could cut your fingers on the hair on the head on portraits). The 24-105 goes back this week for calibration, but I wonder if Canon really care as the majority of users would now if their lens was soft or not.

By: S Clark

S Clark — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:40:57 +0000

The last Canon lens I bought was the 70-200 f4L IS and I tried two copies, both being bad. I returned the lens for a refund and am giving up new Canon equipment until they can hopefully do something about their terrible quality control. I have had to send in all my Canon DSLRs multiple times to get focus problems fixed and my small P&S Canon broke in a few months and had to go in.