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Title: This is the lens I keep reaching for . . .
Review: I own several lenses - all Canon (except for one) - zoom and primes, but this is the lens I keep reaching for time and again. I have sons in marching band (one in college and the other in high school). On a sunny day, coupled with a high quality 1.4X adapter along with the 1.6 crop and you have almost 700mm of reach - enough to pull in faces across a stadium. I never realized how pathetic third party lenses were in the AutoFocus department until I purchased one. The AF speed and accuracy are worlds apart. Reviews say the AF stops working when using a 1.4x adapter. Ummm, they got that wrong. The AF works just fine. Take off the 1.4 and you're good for shooting in a dimly lit church. The IQ is solid with pleasantly surprising bokeh. And it is compact enough to make it through the stadium bag check . . something to think about . . I love my primes, but in the end this workhorse ain't pretty to look at but it does the job week after week . .
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