Mike Johnston observed:
>
> The quality of ALL 28-200mm zooms is poor. It's too extreme
> a range and the market demands a small size and low price.
> It's possible to design a GOOD 28-200, but it would be
> the size of a fast 400mm and cost as much as a used car.
Canon do a 35-350 variable-aperture zoom (a 10x zoom range, even
more than the 7x of a 28-200). And while it is at least as large
as a 400/5.6, its 'only' somewhere around $1700 street price.
I see quite a few of them at motorsports events (especially now
Canon have come out with the D30 body).
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