I sent mine back, although a good lens for me its not good enough for them to be charging the price they are (good glass but overpriced)
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It is a very expensive piece of glass. I have been tempted over the last few months, but I won't give in.
As a side note I'm still waiting for Onestopdigtial to send my 100L Macro to Canon for repair. It's taking what feels like an age. Posted on the 26th April.
The downside to grey market purchasing is very present.
As a side note I'm still waiting for Onestopdigtial to send my 100L Macro to Canon for repair. It's taking what feels like an age. Posted on the 26th April.
The downside to grey market purchasing is very present.
I agree it's expensive, but I'm hoping it'll last for many years to come. And with the cashback, reasonable price and the need for some retail therapy after splitting with GF, I thought, why not.
It feels incredibly well put together and some of the pictures I've taken so far (coupled with the Mk III) are gorgeous, I don't regret it.
And just bought second hand Canon 2x extender (the Mk I as was impulse buy), though photos don't seem quite so sharp, although only had for couple of days so not properly used it.
Slightly different willy wave 
From The Land Comes The Cloth by M+M Morrison, on Flickr
This is a new book by Ian Lawson, one of my favourite photographers. I seen his exhibition which was based on this book 2 years ago and fell in love with his shots and style. The first edition released is limited to 1000 copies and I'm well chuffed I got one, the quality is amazing!
From The Land Comes The Cloth by M+M Morrison, on Flickr
This is a new book by Ian Lawson, one of my favourite photographers. I seen his exhibition which was based on this book 2 years ago and fell in love with his shots and style. The first edition released is limited to 1000 copies and I'm well chuffed I got one, the quality is amazing!
Am off to Le Mans next month and am thinking of hiring a Mk3 1.4x to try out. A friend who's coming has a Mk2 so it might be interesting to compare the two to see how they fare as I've heard the Mk3 works better with the 70-200 Mk2. Will let me decide whether it's worth splurging on a Mk3 1.4x or grabbing a used Mk2.
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Definitely mate, recently went through the same thing. Retail therapy definitely helps a bit. Enjoy your lens
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I just got a response from Onestop about my faulty 100L Macro. I'm a little surprised by the response to be honest.
"We sent your lens to Canon for inspection, but they said this is a common problem with this lens that it sometimes does fail to focus. You would need to focus it on something else and then focus it on the object that you want to focus on. Even Canon does not classify this as a fault, and they said it is normal for this lens to behave like this."
No way was the behaviour normal. It would focus at a certain distance but when trying to focus on an object further/closer away it would result in a failure to focus - Not even an attempt to focus, no hunting at all, nothing. Just the AF failure light would indicate. This is on all focus distance limits using the selector switch.
The only way to remedy this was to use the manual focus ring and move it to the far end and then re-attempt auto focus, which would work only once. As afterwards when attempting to focus on a subject further/closer away it would fail again. The behaviour definitely isn't normal. This consistent behaviour was also present on a different body.
I'm a little suspicious about the whole sent off to Canon for testing to be honest..
The good news anyway is that they are sending me out a brand new replacement. So I'm ultimately happy. Should be with me early next week.
"We sent your lens to Canon for inspection, but they said this is a common problem with this lens that it sometimes does fail to focus. You would need to focus it on something else and then focus it on the object that you want to focus on. Even Canon does not classify this as a fault, and they said it is normal for this lens to behave like this."
No way was the behaviour normal. It would focus at a certain distance but when trying to focus on an object further/closer away it would result in a failure to focus - Not even an attempt to focus, no hunting at all, nothing. Just the AF failure light would indicate. This is on all focus distance limits using the selector switch.
The only way to remedy this was to use the manual focus ring and move it to the far end and then re-attempt auto focus, which would work only once. As afterwards when attempting to focus on a subject further/closer away it would fail again. The behaviour definitely isn't normal. This consistent behaviour was also present on a different body.
I'm a little suspicious about the whole sent off to Canon for testing to be honest..
The good news anyway is that they are sending me out a brand new replacement. So I'm ultimately happy. Should be with me early next week.
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yea it does sound odd, shame you cant contact Canon direct to confirm they did receive the lens
yea it does sound odd, shame you cant contact Canon direct to confirm they did receive the lens
FWIW, I have a 100L Macro and I've never had anything remotely like that happen! It can hunt a bit if it's way out of focus but that's understandable and what the limiter switch is for. Totally fail to focus - nope never and I don't believe for a second that's anything other than a fault. Good that they're sending a replacement though.
I just got a response from Onestop about my faulty 100L Macro. I'm a little surprised by the response to be honest.
"We sent your lens to Canon for inspection, but they said this is a common problem with this lens that it sometimes does fail to focus. You would need to focus it on something else and then focus it on the object that you want to focus on. Even Canon does not classify this as a fault, and they said it is normal for this lens to behave like this."
No way was the behaviour normal. It would focus at a certain distance but when trying to focus on an object further/closer away it would result in a failure to focus - Not even an attempt to focus, no hunting at all, nothing. Just the AF failure light would indicate. This is on all focus distance limits using the selector switch.
The only way to remedy this was to use the manual focus ring and move it to the far end and then re-attempt auto focus, which would work only once. As afterwards when attempting to focus on a subject further/closer away it would fail again. The behaviour definitely isn't normal. This consistent behaviour was also present on a different body.
I'm a little suspicious about the whole sent off to Canon for testing to be honest..
The good news anyway is that they are sending me out a brand new replacement. So I'm ultimately happy. Should be with me early next week.
sounds rubish to me and if canon said there is nothing wrong with it why would they send you a brand new lens?
I use mine on a 1Ds2, I've never had any issues with vignetting. It does have some wide open (1.3EV), but it's not something that a lens profile can't correct automatically.
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This is the trouble with grey imports. You are kinda left dangling and at the mercy of whatever they tell you.
Definitely! It can hunt but it shouldn't fail to focus as long as the subject is in it's working focus distance. I was out in the forest when it first started doing it. I thought that's odd. Pulled the battery and remounted the lens thinking that would solve it, but nope.
Yeah, I don't think it was even sent to Canon.
I have the tracking number for the new one coming to me, so it's on its way. Shall be inspecting it thoroughly when I receive it, should be either Monday or Tuesday. Hopefully the new one will also have a quieter gyro, as the previous was very noisy and a little scratchy sounding!
I can't wait to get it back as with all this warm weather it's prime time macro season out there!
I had a compact from Digital Rev go wrong and they asked me to send it direct to a repair centre in the UK and once I had a quote back from them saying it was a defect digitial rev agreed for me to proceed with the reapir and then reimbursed me the cost when I had an invoice. Much more up front and open than the approach one stop seem to have taken.
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That's a much better way of doing things. I think if I have any problems in the future then I'll suggest this to them. That way I'm not dealing with potential BS from a customer service agent. Not to mention that It's a worry packing up such an expensive fragile item to be sent half way around the world in the hope that it gets there okay.
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it's my birthday and i'll buy myself a fuji x100s if i want to...if i want to...if i want to..
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Handheld as couldn't find the old QR plate, typical!
Ive just bought this head too. Although for bigger hands I find the knobs (hehe) really hard to turn. I think I would have been better getting the 405 which I may still do down the line.
very nice ive just got a x100 that's lovely to useit's my birthday and i'll buy myself a fuji x100s if i want to...if i want to...if i want to..