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What do you think the best combination of lens fluid and cleaner are? I've been using a combination of Eclipse cleaning fluid and Pec Pads recently and don't necessarily find them the best combination. What are your thoughts/experiences?

Hre's a puzzler, for me at any rate. The 15-85 designation of this lens, is that the 'true' size, or being as it is a lens for a 1.6 crop factor camera is it really a 24-136, as a say 24-70 would be on a full frame camera?:)

Hello Folks, I've currently got a 7D and was limbering up to buy a 5D mk2 (I fancied getting a body with full frame sensor to do landscape stuff) when up pops the mk3. At £3000 ish for the mk3 body I'm finding it hard to justify buying it. Is there that significant a difference between the...

Thanks guys for your comments. I like the idea of hiring the 100-400 and the 400 to try out. As usual with me it'll probably take an age for me to decide what to do.

Well I'm in Lincoln so not so close but interesting how so many of you guys are having the same dilema.

On the Canon 7D doen't the 70-200 end up at 156-448 taking the 1.6x crop sensor thingy into account?

Sorry Bracytron, what I meant was should I buy the 1.4x mk3 extender to go with my 70-200. (I have considered the 2x mk3 extender but I believe you lose 2 stops with this whereas with the 1.4 you loose 1 stop) Or buy the 100-400L lens.

This is my first post so I'll try to not bore you all. I have a Canon 7D with a 70-200 f2.8L IS USM mark 1. Question is, would it be worth buying the 100-400 f4.5/5.6L zoom or buy a 1.4x extender mark 3 to go with the 70-200. I've considered the 2x extender but having looked on the net it's...