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<blockquote data-quote="gustafson" data-source="post: 494991" data-attributes="member: 40735">Mike, good insight. I guess what confused me was reading that some folks shoot exclusively with the 35mm prime and nothing else. I also read someplace that with the 3300 having a 24MP sensor, even a wide lens such as a 35mm can produce crops that top a telephoto lens. My test shots quickly disabused me of that notion <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />The other issue with the 35mm test shot may have been the AF. I had set it to AF-A, and its not clear to me what the camera decided to focus on (There were parked cars, light poles, moving cars on the road, etc. in between me and the strip mall across the road. In the case of the 55-200mm at 200mm, the only thing in the viewfinder was the strip mall, so it likely had an AF advantage over the 35mm. Even so, lesson learned that you can't simply match shots with a tele by cropping shots with a 35mm prime.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gustafson, post: 494991, member: 40735"] Mike, good insight. I guess what confused me was reading that some folks shoot exclusively with the 35mm prime and nothing else. I also read someplace that with the 3300 having a 24MP sensor, even a wide lens such as a 35mm can produce crops that top a telephoto lens. My test shots quickly disabused me of that notion :D The other issue with the 35mm test shot may have been the AF. I had set it to AF-A, and its not clear to me what the camera decided to focus on (There were parked cars, light poles, moving cars on the road, etc. in between me and the strip mall across the road. In the case of the 55-200mm at 200mm, the only thing in the viewfinder was the strip mall, so it likely had an AF advantage over the 35mm. Even so, lesson learned that you can't simply match shots with a tele by cropping shots with a 35mm prime. [/QUOTE]

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