EF 4/70-210 - OLD model quality

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Does somebody have experience about the old EF 4/70-210 without USM from around 1987 ? A german photo-tester tells, it should be better than the new USM's 4/70-200 L and 2,8/70-200 L in term of BRILLIANCE, NOT sharpness ! As I started with Canon in 1992, I do not know and could not find anything useful about this probably "wonder-lens". Photodo ranked it only 2,9...but the MTF alone does not say too much. What I know exactly is the quality of my just sold EF 2,8/70-200 L and my new EF 4/70-200 L, which is very good - not as tough as my Leica's, but close. Maybe I have missed above "killer-lens". Thanks for anyone experienced with it and for web-links about.

Best Regards Rainer

-- R. Krönke (Rainer.Kroenke@T-Online.de), June 07, 2002

Answers

I've been using this lens since 1989. It's not a "killer-lens", but it's not bad either. Just another lens.

-- Boris Krivoruk (boris.krivoruk@kp.org), June 07, 2002.

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