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DIY: Improve the Performance of your Canon Kit Lens!

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DIY: Improve the Performance of your Canon Kit Lens! - 02-09-2012, 01:36 PM

How to Increase the Performance of Your Canon Kit Lens

Quick, simple, DIY.
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02-09-2012, 01:44 PM

Man I'm definitely going to do this, did you see those before and after pics?!?! AMAZING!
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02-09-2012, 02:11 PM

The comments to that article are hilarious.
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"There's no possible way the red paint could improve the optics in any way. It is possible that the silver ring was causing a halo effect and blurring the original image, but I think the hood would have negated that effect on its own. I'd like to see this experiment recreated using green ink, or possibly painting the entire lens white."

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02-09-2012, 02:47 PM

LOL, some people are just clueless. I wonder ig the 10one guy actually did it expecting a change.

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02-09-2012, 03:04 PM

I love it, I wonder if I remove the 0 from 50D...Then I would have a 5 D.
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I love it, I wonder if I remove the 0 from 50D...Then I would have a 5 D.
How do you think I went from my D3000 to my D300?
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02-17-2012, 06:16 PM

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02-17-2012, 06:39 PM

I'm going one step further....Krylon white AND a red stripe. Then I will sell it on craigslist as an ultrarare collectible lens.

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02-18-2012, 09:10 AM

Those are funny. I'm not a big fan of the white lenses. They just look odd to me and it's hard enough to be discreet with a huge lens. I know that many people do like the look though and to each their own. I'm still surprised they would do that to a $2,000 lens and mess up the resale value.

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