Dear all,
I am rather new to the list, but I am following the conversations on a daily
basis. I find them very interesting, especially while I want to buy a EOS
30.
However, I have some difficulty in choosing the proper first lens (I did not
find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, yet). I am not a photo-mad
amateur, just an amateur that very much likes to take pictures. I like make
photos of holidays, trips, landscapes and interesting structures. With the
latter I mean small or large, nature or man-made objects (or parts of them)
that are not the way they are regularly represented in pictures. (e.g. a
photo of frozen lake, which of course you won't recognise, because I only
take a detail, showing a very nice green and white pattern. Or making a
still life of a used espresso cup with spoon and sugar bag.) I hope you
still understand.
These goals were until now satisfied by my Sigma SA-300 with the standard
28-80 and 70-210 of course also Sigma. That was my first set from about '94.
It annoyed me that the AF was sometimes not functioning properly and that
the DOF button broke down two times and is beyond repair.
I have looked to all internet pages I could find and came up with two lenses
that could fulfill my wish, the 28-105 USM or the 28-135 IS USM. As the
price difference (� Hfl 500 ~ $200) is known to you guys, I have a few
questions.
1) Is this difference worth the IS?
2) Is it problematic that the aperture of the 28-135 changes much faster
(40mm f4.0; 50mm f4.5; 85mm f5.6) than the 28-105 (40mm f4.0; 80mm f4.5)
3) Are filters (UV, Polarizer) so much more expensive for an 72 (28-135)
than an 58 mm mount?
4) Is the 30mm extra on the 28-135 worthwhile.
In short,
Both lenses are rated similarly and rather well as consumer-grade lenses in
both MTF-tests (value for me?), EOS-list and user-comments. Is there any
preference to one of both lenses regarding above questions and the value for
price?
It has become a rather long story. Sorry to have bothered you with that, but
I think it is better to make clear what you want than to have a half the
information you wanted.
Thanks
Edo Schraa
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