Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm sorry, Mark, but I sold the 35/2, 20/2.8 and 24/2.8 and 20-35/2.8L. I'm working (about to start) at the ER. Tomorrow I will try to post some images shot in the studio comparing the 17-35/2.8L to the 28/2.8 and 35/1.4L. I never said Canon primes are on the weak side. I have high regard for the 50/1.4 and 1.8, 85/1.8, 85/1.2L(I), 135/2.8 soft focus, 100/2, 200/2.8L, 300/4L. I love primes. One of the reasons why I love my M8. And I am not a bit surprised by this. The super L zooms cost at least as the sum of the primes they replace. Almost all L zooms are newer optical designs, have better mechanical construction assuring better collimation and centration, etc. IMO, I seem to remember that on the Nikkor field, a zoom like the AF- S 17-35/2.8 ED (and a long list of other letters I don't remember anymore) performs at least as good as most of the same age primes it intends to 'replace' at similar apertures. But I don't have any of them anymore. Saluti, Ed PS: Sorry, but I will not be able to respond fluidly today, but I will try to do my best. El 09/04/2007, a las 02:50, Mark Rabiner escribi?: > On 4/9/07 12:30 AM, "Eduardo Albesi" <eduardoalbesi@ciudad.com.ar> > typed: > >> Same experience here with Canon lenses. Both my old 20-35/2.8L and >> 17-35/2.8L produce consistently much better images than the 20/2.8 >> and 35/2 primes, and just a tad better than the 35/1.4L and 24/2.8. >> The 28/2.8 maybe the cheaper lens in that focal length range, gives >> about the same quality of the L zooms. >> >> Ed >> El 09/04/2007, a las 01:15, Will von Dauster escribi?: >> > > Lets see em! > I'm not buying it! > > > I realize there's an ongoing internet urban legend that Canon > primes are a > little weak and who cares because no one uses primes anyway (I do) > but it > doesn't take much to make a prime perform better than a zoom. Lift > a pinky. > Unless all your going by are shots of the want ads. maybe. 5 elements > instead of 18. Less things floating around in plastic helicals > which go bump > in the night and never perform as well again. All an all a more > elegant > imaging experience with a lens one forth the size and 4 times the > speed. > Give me a prime anyday. > And old non AF one maybe. > A non super multi coated one with a dented lens hood or no lens hood. > A slow one wipe marks or a scrach. I am shooting Nikons but in this > regard I > don't think there's much difference. I can just put more old primes > on a > modern body. A canon person can just use an old film body. > > Mark Rabiner > 8A/109s > New York, NY > > markrabiner.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >