Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No, as Adam said, all the development work has been targeted at zooms. >> So all is not equal. In terms of what's available, zooms are at least the >> equal of primes. > > This may apply to all photography of the usual sunday and garden > variety. Take any of those zooms into a night-time industrial setting or > any other scenery with extremely bright light sources (within or outside > of the frame) and a night sky and watch the attack of the UFO armada > you'll be getting with your zooms lens. > > The laws of physics apply to zooms just as well as to primes and under > certain circumstances less (elements and glass surfaces) is definitely > more (picture quality).
Note what Adam Maas wrote: > > Take the Nikkor 14-24 for starters. It's a brand new design (released > last fall), 14 elements in 11 groups with 2 ED, 3 Aspherical and 1 > Nano-coat elements. The only prime to exceed it in performance is the > Zeiss 21mm Distagon, which is 15 elements in 13 groups (and is also > the only vaguely modern 20/21mm design for 35mm SLR's, having been > released around 10-15 years ago as a clean-sheet design). The Prime's > more complex, not less. -- 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.
