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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 358198" data-attributes="member: 13090">Well, I'm not sure what there is to explain other than to say a prime lens, like your 35mm f/1.8 will, most often, be significantly sharper than a zoom lens. There are exceptions, there are always exceptions, but that being said, Photography is, most always, a juggling act and when it comes to lenses you typically juggle speed -- meaning maximum aperture -- against focal length against overall image quality. Can you have all three in one lens... One that's really fast, with a huge focal length and great edge-to-edge sharpness? Yes you can, but it will cost you; sometimes hugely, depending on just *how* fast you wanna go and just *how* sharp you want your images. It's easy to get into the &quot;Thousands of Dollars&quot; bracket...&nbsp; Your 55-300mm is, to put it bluntly, a mediocre lens: It provides you a lot of flexibility and it's not all that expensive a lens; the tradeoff is in overall image quality.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 358198, member: 13090"] Well, I'm not sure what there is to explain other than to say a prime lens, like your 35mm f/1.8 will, most often, be significantly sharper than a zoom lens. There are exceptions, there are always exceptions, but that being said, Photography is, most always, a juggling act and when it comes to lenses you typically juggle speed -- meaning maximum aperture -- against focal length against overall image quality. Can you have all three in one lens... One that's really fast, with a huge focal length and great edge-to-edge sharpness? Yes you can, but it will cost you; sometimes hugely, depending on just *how* fast you wanna go and just *how* sharp you want your images. It's easy to get into the "Thousands of Dollars" bracket... Your 55-300mm is, to put it bluntly, a mediocre lens: It provides you a lot of flexibility and it's not all that expensive a lens; the tradeoff is in overall image quality. [COLOR=#ffffff]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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