135L with TCs

[Dave Throgmartin]

Today I was closer to the Chicago suburb area and checked out a 135L at Calumet Photographic. The lens is quite impressive to see in person. f/2.0 is very fast and the overall quality in test images was excellent with a superb ability to melt the background away.

I put a EF 2x III extender on it and was reasonably happy with the results. The focusing, although not fast, was accurate with no hunting. The resulting image quality at f/5.6 looked reasonable on the camera LCD. I'm going to take a look at the pictures I've taken with my other lenses and do some walking around with one of lens fixed to 135mm for a dry run. I think the 135L is is the lens for me.

Thanks to everyone for their help.

I'm not sure if this is just my observation or if there is fact behind this, but the 135L appeared much more impressive to me than the mark I 200mm f/2.8 I looked at yesterday.

Best Regards
Dave