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Greetings,
The best part of the "my lens is better than your lens" discussion
is that I've learned more about lens in the last three hours than I did
in the last three years. I have one auto focus lens NIKKOR AF 35-135
1:3.5-4.5 and zoom range works pretty good for candids around the house
and scouting pictures. I tend to think it has a bit of a soft focus and
wants to "hunt" on my train shots. Besides user ignorance I think it
has a problem with picking it's focus point on 3/4 to deadon shots (too
amny potential targets for the chip especially with rail running off
into the distance). However I'll also confess to not using it on a
tripod very often. I tend to stick my 400 or 200 telephoto on the
tripod and shooot down the track a ways and then take a grab bag print
shot at approx 35-50mm equivelent with the AF 35-135 lens. I perfer a
manual focus zoom over the automatic because of the very fine adjustment
need to shoot with it in manual override. I've got a ten year old
manual Sigma 35-70 F2.8 APO that takes better pictures than my 35-135
Auto NIKKOR. Though I think familarity has a lot to do with that last
point.
Here's a question along the same lines: If you could only have two
or three lens what would be your choices?
Greg
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