James B.Davis wrote: What good is that incredible sharpness when the camera is hand held at a low shutter speed, is what I'm asking.
If you don't understand how you get maximum sharpness maybe you need to do some testing on tripod and off. You discuss lenses as if there's no more to getting incredible sharpness than just owning an incredibly sharp lens. I assure you that unless you use a tripod in low light, you lose all of that sharpness and your lens is reduced to a cheap plastic lens in sharpness. -------------------------------------------------- Jim, You are looking at it from a very myopic view. Sometimes getting the image is better than not getting it at all. Yes, there is more to sharpness than just owning a sharp lens, but what I am trying to say is that sometimes you can use a fast lens to get the image where a slow lens will not. Sometime you have no time or choice in setting up a tripod, so my F1.4 at 1/60 will get the image your 1/8 at F8 will be fuzzy. Peter K * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
