A LOT of saleable shots have been made at f 2.8.  Most sports shots and 
other news type photos are made at 2.8.

My "slow" lenses are 2.8...and that is just the long stuff and 
zooms...like a 16/35 2.8L 70/200 2.8L, 400 2.8L.  I make many photos that 
are in magazines all over the US and world using lenses like this at 
these aperatures.  I also have fast short lenses like the 24 1.4L and 50 
1.4USM that I use a LOT.  Awesome lenses and shooting avaliable light is 
often very nice.  Heck I even have a 50 1.0 Noctilux for my Leica M6es

The 70-200 2.8 is very sharp at 2.8...I use it wide open all the time.  

Once upon a time Jim Davis said: 

>One wonders just how many saleable shots were actually taken at F2.8
>on these lenses. I always found this aperture give too shallow a DOF
>for a face. You can get maybe the nose in focus...


Harrison McClary
http://www.mcclary.net

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