Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:59 PM -0600 12/16/08, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: >On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 Tina Manley <images@comporium.net>wrote: > >>...Also, some Canon lenses are worse than others. The 16-35 zoom is >>absolutely awful. The 24/1.4 L is pretty bad. Wides are much worse >than longer lenses. >============================================================ >Tell me about it! I hate that 16-35, but it's the widest lens the office >has, >so I grit my teeth when I have to use it, even stopped down. I miss >using fast >prime lenses on film where I could shoot even at f/2 and have good results. >We still have some fast Nikkor manual lenses and a Nikkor-EOS adapter, but >the Canon screen is so hard to use with them I can't get consistent >focus.(except for my >35mm f/3.5 PC Nikkor, which seems to snap into focus easier, and is >very sharp). > >Alan I got rid of the 16-35 after I got the 12-24 Sigma. That may be a slow lens, but the optical quality is lots better. Also, it is essentially distortion free! I still have a MF Nikon 15/3.5 which is fairly good, but it's an old design and it shows, especially in the poor flare performance I have he 24/1.4 and 35/1.4 and while the 35 is quite decent (although not as good as the 35 Summilux ASPH) the 24 is really quite soft until you stop it down a lot, and then it's only somewhat soft. It's really for those occasions when only f/1.4 will do. At 24 the best that Canon has to offer are the two zooms, the 24-70/2.8 and the 24-105/4. They are both quite decent zooms, but really can't be compared with the best at that focal length. I'm waiting for the 21/2.8 and 18/3.5 Zeiss lenses in Canon mounts. The 21 especially is huge; about 3 times the volume of the 21/1.4 Summilux, but if it provides decent performance then the new 5D MkII might make sense. In any case, the M8 with the Leica wides are just so much better. -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com