[LRflex] Re: OT:Canon/Nikon Lens 'Catalog' Query

  • From: Richard Ward <ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:01:45 -0700 (PDT)

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.




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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


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