In general I have found that most telezooms are softer at the long end than the short end and most primes at the same focal length as the long end of zoom will easily beat the zoom at the long end. For this reason, I try to avoid telezooms ( and wide zooms, and extended range zooms for that matter ).
For some reason, the closer you get to "normal lenses" in focal length, the better zooms do, but super wide OR super long zooms, no go! JC OCONNELL [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Toine Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 4:26 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: DA 55-300 LBA I sold my 80-320 to finance this lba. My only problem with the 80-320 was lens creep while walking. Corner sharpness is a little better on the 80-320 which isn't a surprise for a FA lens. Contrast and image quality at 300 is better with the 55-300. At the wide end the 80-320 has very good image quality, maybe the best of the two. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
