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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: gofioamasado on June 02, 2007, 06:46:38 am

Title: Canon 200 mm f1.8 EF L USM
Post by: gofioamasado on June 02, 2007, 06:46:38 am

Hi, everyone, greetings from Tenerife, Spain,
I'd like to know opinions about using this lens, (Canon 200 mm f1.8 EF L USM) issues, and all information to lead me to make a decission on purchasing this lens.
Does somebody knows which was the last price on a brand new unit of this lens before Canon stopped its production?
Thank you very much in advance.

Title: Canon 200 mm f1.8 EF L USM
Post by: eronald on June 03, 2007, 07:26:31 pm

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Hi, everyone, greetings from Tenerife, Spain,
I'd like to know opinions about using this lens, (Canon 200 mm f1.8 EF L USM) issues, and all information to lead me to make a decission on purchasing this lens.
Does somebody knows which was the last price on a brand new unit of this lens before Canon stopped its production?
Thank you very much in advance.
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very, very sharp.

Edmund

Title: Canon 200 mm f1.8 EF L USM
Post by: dseelig on June 08, 2007, 11:56:12 pm

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very, very sharp.

Edmund
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great Lens but parts for older discontinued lenses are running out. I ahd a 200 2.8 L the first one it took mnths to get the parts to fix it many places were called . For a limite dprodction lens like the 200 1.8 it will be harder and harder ot get parts as time goes on Canon usa will no longer fix it David

Title: Canon 200 mm f1.8 EF L USM
Post by: macgyver on June 09, 2007, 12:09:10 am

I'll second all of that; it has a reputation for being excellent glass, but I just had a friend have a first hand experiance with trying to get a discontinued lens serviced.  Not pretty at all.