I read a lot of lens reviews and Flickr opinions on different lenses. One of the most common comparisons between lenses is sharpness. One of my favorite lens review sites is the-digital-picture.com. He’s got thorough, but not excessively wordy, reviews on all the Canon stuff. He also posts test results with one of those ISO 12233 test charts to measure resolution. It’s pretty neat. But, one thing that chart can’t measure is color saturation. While my 10-22 and 28-135 are pretty sharp, ever since getting my first L (200 f/2.8L II, the black prime), I’ve barely used them. Whenever I shot the 28-135 and 200L at the same time, I was always spending a lot of time in Lightroom tweaking the colors and tone curve on shots from the 28-135. The colors and exposure from the 200L were always spot on. I used to get in there and tweak them a little, I think because I was used to having to do that, but I don’t even touch them anymore because they come out great. A good example of this can be found in this gallery. Three lenses were used, the 200L, 28-135 and 50 1.8. You should be able to spot the 200L. Besides minor cropping/re-framing, the 200L’s images are basically straight off the camera. The 28-135 was used for all the present unwrapping.
