J. C. O'Connell wrote: > they dont allow "better control of the background" > when you WANT some more background do they? Thats > what shorter lenses are for in a lot of cases.
Of course, I agree with that. I use wide angles a lot for flower macros. > It is not always desired to have the extreme telephoto > effect. And even with the shorter lenses (50mm is NOT > short in macro range on APS anyway) I have a 500mm and use a 300mm for butterfly closeups. 50mm is short. :-) > you can control > background somewhat with DOF/aperture if needed. Of course. -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

