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<blockquote data-quote="gustafson" data-source="post: 494975" data-attributes="member: 40735">OMG [USER=27586]@hrstrat57[/USER], you slay me! @<a href="http://nikonites.com/member-9252-steveh.html" target="_blank">SteveH</a>, thanks for the heads up on the weight not being that big an issue.So to change topics a bit, last night while waiting for the seller to show up, I took some test shots with my 35mm prime. I took a shot of a strip mall about 150 feet away under street lighting, and a couple of close-ups of the table I was sitting at. When I got my hands on the 55-200mm, I took a shot of the strip mall zoomed in at 200mm, and a few close-ups. When I reviewed the shots later, I found to some surprise that the zoomed-in shot with the 55-200mm was way sharper than similar crops of the shot I took with the 35mm prime. The shots with the prime also showed purple fringing around neon signs, while the 55-200mm showed none. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I was under the mistaken impression that images of distant objects with the 35mm prime would be comparably sharp once cropped, but that doesn't seem to be the case.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gustafson, post: 494975, member: 40735"] OMG [USER=27586]@hrstrat57[/USER], you slay me! @[URL="http://nikonites.com/member-9252-steveh.html"]SteveH[/URL], thanks for the heads up on the weight not being that big an issue. So to change topics a bit, last night while waiting for the seller to show up, I took some test shots with my 35mm prime. I took a shot of a strip mall about 150 feet away under street lighting, and a couple of close-ups of the table I was sitting at. When I got my hands on the 55-200mm, I took a shot of the strip mall zoomed in at 200mm, and a few close-ups. When I reviewed the shots later, I found to some surprise that the zoomed-in shot with the 55-200mm was way sharper than similar crops of the shot I took with the 35mm prime. The shots with the prime also showed purple fringing around neon signs, while the 55-200mm showed none. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I was under the mistaken impression that images of distant objects with the 35mm prime would be comparably sharp once cropped, but that doesn't seem to be the case. [/QUOTE]

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