Thanks for the Links and the Info! It looks like I've just been 'spoiled' with being able to count on Red Rings meaning certain things come in a Canon L lens. I don't know whether Dougs statement that: " > In my limited experience the Canon L designation doesn't mean it measures up to the real L lenses." is even a logical statement! :-) If Canon designated a lens as an "L" lens, that makes it a Canon L lens, ergo it's a real canon L lens. It's not like some car dealer when it slaps decals and logos on some new car on their lot and suddenly it's a "Sport" version of that car. But I'm just poking fun at semantics here. :-) There is a definite point to the "L" designation not always being placed on Optically Great Lenses, though. Sometimes it's more of a designation of Construction, Materials, and Weather Sealing, than of Optical Quality. See the Super Zoom L's (35-300usm is - iirc) specifically, and some of the wide angle primes and ultra wide zooms aren't so uber good either. Seeya. Richard W. ________________________________ From: Miha Golobic <miha.golobic@xxxxxxxxx> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Fri, August 20, 2010 7:15:30 PM Subject: [LRflex] Re: OT:Canon/Nikon Lens 'Catalog' Query 2010/8/21 Doug Herr <wildlightphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > In my limited experience the Canon L designation doesn't mean it measures > up to the real L lenses. > > Doug you may well be right as I have* zero* experience with canon. Miha ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/