Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Oh, I zoom when I have too. I've been using the Canon EOS >system for more than 10 years now, and throughout the years >have gotten 3 2.8 zooms covering from 20mm to 200mm, plus a f4 >zoom for when I walk around a lot and want to bring a zoom. >But 2.8 is very limiting. I've been thinking of selling all my >zooms and throw in a bit of money and buy that 11 megapixel >Canon, then use only prime lenses (24mm 1.4, 35mm f1.4, 50mm 1.4, >85 1.8, 132 2.0, 200 2.0) and just crop to zoom. >It's almost a 2x zoom factor from the 3 megapixels to 11 >megapixels. I then can pretend I have a set of super fast >(1.4 to 2.0), high quality, light weight zooms :-). Phong Buy the EOS 1Ds and keep "all" the Canon L lenses, zooms or not. Felix - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html