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The Canon Mark II 'big white' primes are said to be designed for 100MP. The smaller Mark II / III zooms are indeed in the 40 - 50 range. Bear in mind that the
by dingaling 9y ago
The Canon Mark II 'big white' primes are said to be designed for 100MP. The smaller Mark II / III zooms are indeed in the 40 - 50 range. Bear in mind that the 24MP crop sensors have been pushing past the 50MP-full-frame-equivalent for several years and really show up any lens flaw.
The one example that stands out is the Canon 70-200 f4 IS zoom, which has an ageing early-digital-era reputation for being razor-sharp but never managed that even on my old 1Ds III and looks like mush on a 5Ds. Hence a Mark II is to be released this year.
Interestingly the even older non-IS f4 version was on the list of lenses approved for the 5Ds, which shows how difficult adding those extra optics makes lens design:
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