On Nov 2, 2005, at 5:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given this limitation of the 35-135, I'd be much better off using the
28-105 and cropping more at the long end.
Is the 35-135 very unusual this way? Is something likely wrong with my
copy that wide-end minimum focus is more like 15 feet than the
seemingly
marked 7 feet? But even 7 feet is really long compared to the
others. Is
35-135 a difficult range to design?
Can't speak to the design, but I know I looked at that very same lens
in the used department of National Camera here in Minneapolis last
winter.
Fresh off the purchase of my DS, I was dying to fill out my
collection of autofocus zooms, and this was sitting in the case with
a very low price.
The loooooong minimum-focus distance is what prompted me to leave it
there and look for something else. Otherwise, it seemed like an OK
lens. So, while I don't have the exact distances marked off to
compare against the one you've got, I do recall that you do have to
step quite a ways back to photograph someone who is in the same room
with you.
I get better close-focus results with my Tamron XR 28-200!
-Charles
--
Charles Robinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Minneapolis, MN
http://charles.robinsontwins.org
