Two pearls of wisdom from Jim which should be indelibly etched on the subconscious:
> Good grief no. Amazing the questions we get sometimes. Canon is far > superior to Stigma. That is true in every regard for every lens. Even more so when you realise that the Canon one will work with your next camera body too. > Now, as to the difference between a prime and a zoom, this has been > covered everywhere many times. Of course the zoom will be inferior. > But the prime doesn't zoom. You decide what's more important to you. Again: perfectly true and it always will be so. A well-designed prime lens will always give less flare and have less distortions than a well-designed zoom. The flexibility of the zoom though is a truly huge advantage for a small hit in quality. Primes do have another advantage for me: close focussing ability. In the digital era: what I'm waiting for is some customised "tweak-ware" (TM). That is, the camera records the lens type, aperture, focal length and focus distance - as now. The software then "undistorts" the image according to parameters in its database for that lens. The output could be as close as possible geometrically to that from the hypothetical perfect lens. Bob * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
