How do you spot the Canon EF 24-105 with the flare problem?

PeterT

PeterT

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Hi, I am going to Focus on Imaging 2006 and if the price is right I will be buying an EOS 5D or maybe a 20D and I am tempted by the new
Canon EF 24-105mm f 4 L IS USM Lens. This is to replace my EOS 1N that I sold last summer, only leaving me with my trusty EOS 600!
What do you think of my intended purchase and are there any issues that I should be aware of. I believe that some of the early 24-105mm lenses had an issue with flare. How do I spot one of these?
Can you put a polarising filter on this lens without vignetting. At the moment I have the EF 24-85 lens and this is a problem on the wide setting even with one of the Hoya ultra thin filters?
Thanks for your thoughts, PeterT.
 
Thank you for your replies. After a bit of searching I found the information on the forum. Regarding the 5D rather than the 20D, on a recent trip to the Lake District I "pretended" that my EOS 600 was a 20D with my 24-85mm lens in that the widest I would allow myself was 38mm (approx 24x1.6 crop). I kept wanting to have a wider angle for a lot of my shots so this is pushing me towards the 5D.
I had thought about keeping my film camera and having all slides put onto Super size CD at the time of developing. I had my last film processed like this at my local chain of high street photographers and the quality of images on the CD was appauling with hairs or other bits on the images and a max file size of 502kb. What a waste of time!!

PeterT.
 
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