demiro
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I dismissed it because the lens is crap! After reading this review and many other,
I found the lens is very soft/blurry at F2.0, wide open.
http://www.monox.jp/digitalcamera-sp...g1xmk2-04.html
About half way down the page, you can see proof that the lens can't even resolve the 2 year old 13MP sensor.
http://www.monox.jp/img/canon_powers...125mm_f020.jpg
Once you get to about f4.0 it gets better (in the center), but then the corners get worse. This lens is one of the worse I've ever seen! It is way too big, heavy and definitely NOT worth $800
I think your statements are a bit too definitive at this stage. The lens may well turn out to be poor, but do we really know that yet? Maybe wait a few months before declaring it "one of the worst you've ever seen".