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The best walk around landscape lens -- ever :-)
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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 546285" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>No experience with that one, but I felt that same way when I bought a 18-200mm quite awhile back. I know many users like it fine, but mine has long since been sold... only lens I ever sold, I still have a few old ones never used now. It wasn't "bad", but it just never excelled, just never quite happy.</p><p></p><p>18-200 is a 11.1x range. That's really a lot. I should have known better too, lots of compromises to make that happen.</p><p></p><p>18-140 is 7.8x</p><p></p><p>18-85 is 4.7x (and I was very happy with mine... still not f/2.8 though, and 18mm is tough about distortion and vignetting). I still have it, but I use FX now.</p><p></p><p>Something like 24-70 is 2.9x, and short zoom ranges like that have fewer compromises. My opinion is it's equal to any prime lens. And of course, a f/2.8 lens performs better at f/4 than does a f/4 lens, like with bounce flash. But certainly spending $1800 helps too... price is a huge factor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 546285, member: 12496"] No experience with that one, but I felt that same way when I bought a 18-200mm quite awhile back. I know many users like it fine, but mine has long since been sold... only lens I ever sold, I still have a few old ones never used now. It wasn't "bad", but it just never excelled, just never quite happy. 18-200 is a 11.1x range. That's really a lot. I should have known better too, lots of compromises to make that happen. 18-140 is 7.8x 18-85 is 4.7x (and I was very happy with mine... still not f/2.8 though, and 18mm is tough about distortion and vignetting). I still have it, but I use FX now. Something like 24-70 is 2.9x, and short zoom ranges like that have fewer compromises. My opinion is it's equal to any prime lens. And of course, a f/2.8 lens performs better at f/4 than does a f/4 lens, like with bounce flash. But certainly spending $1800 helps too... price is a huge factor. [/QUOTE]
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