Most fast teles are designed to be optimum at wide f-stops. Stopping down to f/8 usually will only improve the edge very slighty - unless we need more depth of field. At some circumstances f/8 would result in a shaky/blurry picture. Shooting at f/8 is not a complete madness, of course, but most of the time I use my 180/2.8 at f2.8-5.6.. I just remembered that even my F300/4.5 is superb already at f/5.6!
-----Original Message----- From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "late" performance On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > are not so good stopped down past f/5.6 or so. Of course shooting > a 200/2.0 at f/8 is madness! Why? Kostas (genuine question)
