Bill Peifer wrote: >Shel asks, "Why not use a faster, sharper prime? What is this penchant >people have for zooms?"
I can suggest a short answer: In these circumstances a prime won't be sharper. Using long focal lengths under conditions like these, technique (camera steadiness) will totally overwhelm all but the grossest diferences in lens sharpness. Michael Reichmann (the Luminous Landscape guy) has commented on this with regards to many people's fixation on sharpness. Except with wide angles, you're throwing away that expensive sharpness of your primes whenever you don't use a good tripod. -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
