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all of the Pictures on my website are taken with a off-brand 200mm zoom lens...ain't nothing wrong with those... David Epling Stockton, California Central California Rails http://cencalrails.railfan.net -----Original Message----- From: David R. Busse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, April 06, 1998 06:54 Subject: Re: SPORRS: Lens Repair >======================================================= >-> This is The 'SPORRS' Mailing List >-> Info File: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/infosporrs.htm >-> Note: Remember to include your name in each list post or reply. >-> Please delete all unnecessary quoted text from the original message! >======================================================= > >Sam Reeves wrote: >> > >> >> Not to be nitpicking, why would you want to repair a zoom lens? Throw it in >> the garbage can. Fixed focal length lenses will be sharper than zoom lenses. >> Ask any of my instructors at Foothill College and they will sing the perils of >> zooms lenses for you. When you blow a slide/negative up to 8x10 and 11x14, >> the loss of sharpness of a zoom will show! Sorry, but its the truth. ; - ) >> > >Sam, Sam, Sam...tell your instructors to hop in their Packards and >Stuedbakers and go to any camera store that carries high-end Canon or >Nikon zooms...check out the Canon 70-200f2.8L and Nikon 80-200 f2.8. >These are probably the finest zooms ever made and are standard equipment >for photojournalists worldwide. Expensive lenses but tack sharp. A quick >study of how pros use their equipment will reveal that photojournalists, >not college instructors, probably use their equipment in a more similar >fashion to railfans. And most photojournalists will be out of a job if >the images are constantly fuzzy. > >I was a "prime lenses only" person until I switched to EOS six years >ago. Now, the bulk of my shooting is done with two lenses--the >80-200f2.8L (the 70-200 replaced this lens in the Canon line a couple of >years ago) and the 20-35f2.8L. The camera bag's much lighter and the >shooting routine simpler. I will hold their sharpness up against any >prime lens out there, and I'll also hold up many published photos (and >unpublshed ones) that were gotten with the zooms, in "run and gun" >situations, that just couldn't be had with a bag full of prime lenses to >fumble with. > >I am certain your instructors will not have any good things to say about >autofocus or auto exposure, either. That's fine as long as you remember >that the vast majority of "photography instructors" are long on theory >and short on the practical aspect of taking pictures under >pressure--when you get one chance to produce. > >Rick Newton's post said it better than I ever could, but I had to throw >my opinions in, being a "zoom lens fan" who discovered the truth just a >few years ago. There are several zooms out there that are very expensive >and well worth it. You get what you pay for. > >--David R. Busse >Diamond Bar, California > > >======================================================= >-> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' >-> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ >-> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved >======================================================= > ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
