Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch writes: > I'm sure there are, but I for one would not be interested. Why? Because > I > know that there are some major compromises in the Canon lens. It is not > terribly sharp at the edges at the wide end. They created this lens > specifically to work with digital cameras, whose resolution is quite a > bit > less than good film. So they let the quality suffer in the edges a bit > to > make it work for a reasonable price. Indeed. The 17-35 and the 35-350 are clearly intended as lenses for the DCS series of digital bodies. It's not that they're bad, just not as sharp (or expensive) as they would have been if they were designed primarily for film. And in the summer, they're the only lenses one needs on the front of such a camera...the winter is a different matter.