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| Try any of the L glass you will find it worth the money "SimonLW" news:439096d9$1_5@newsfeed.slurp.net... > I'm looking for an upgrade from this lens. I'm looking for a bit more > speed and sharpness on the long end. While not bad, the 18-55 shows some > chromatic aberration (purple fringing) at some settings. The curved ocean > horizon shots didn't look that great either thanks to lens distortion. > > If you have experience with your lens under various shooting conditions, > I'd like to here from you. > Thanks -S > > BTW, I'm using the 6mp Rebel. May upgrade to the next Rebel (hopefully 10+ > mp) when it is released. > | ||
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| "SimonLW" news:439096d9$1_5@newsfeed.slurp.net... > I'm looking for an upgrade from this lens. I'm looking for a bit more > speed and sharpness on the long end. While not bad, the 18-55 shows some > chromatic aberration (purple fringing) at some settings. The curved ocean > horizon shots didn't look that great either thanks to lens distortion. > > If you have experience with your lens under various shooting conditions, > I'd like to here from you. > Thanks -S > > BTW, I'm using the 6mp Rebel. May upgrade to the next Rebel (hopefully 10+ > mp) when it is released. > It depends on what you want to spend. The 17-85 f4.5-5.6 isn't any faster, but is a better lens, wide to long, wide open to stopped down. The 17-40 f4L is an f4 for its entire range, so it's a stop faster on the long end, and is an excellent lens, especially for $600 or so. Or you can go to the 24-70 f2.8L, 2 stops faster at the long end, much sharper, and $1200. Probably your best choice with more than 8mp are factored in. Like the man said about cars, "Speed costs money, how fast do you want to go?" -- Skip Middleton http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com | ||
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| I'm looking for an upgrade from this lens. I'm looking for a bit more speed and sharpness on the long end. While not bad, the 18-55 shows some chromatic aberration (purple fringing) at some settings. The curved ocean horizon shots didn't look that great either thanks to lens distortion. If you have experience with your lens under various shooting conditions, I'd like to here from you. Thanks -S BTW, I'm using the 6mp Rebel. May upgrade to the next Rebel (hopefully 10+ mp) when it is released. | ||
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| In article <8M1kf.2732$4v.732@fed1read03>, Skip M >"SimonLW" >news:439096d9$1_5@newsfeed.slurp.net... >> I'm looking for an upgrade from this lens. I'm looking for a bit more >> speed and sharpness on the long end. While not bad, the 18-55 shows some >> chromatic aberration (purple fringing) at some settings. The curved ocean >> horizon shots didn't look that great either thanks to lens distortion. >> >> If you have experience with your lens under various shooting conditions, >> I'd like to here from you. >> Thanks -S >> >> BTW, I'm using the 6mp Rebel. May upgrade to the next Rebel (hopefully 10+ >> mp) when it is released. >> >It depends on what you want to spend. The 17-85 f4.5-5.6 isn't any faster, >but is a better lens, wide to long, wide open to stopped down. The 17-40 >f4L is an f4 for its entire range, so it's a stop faster on the long end, >and is an excellent lens, especially for $600 or so. Or you can go to the >24-70 f2.8L, 2 stops faster at the long end, much sharper, and $1200. >Probably your best choice with more than 8mp are factored in. >Like the man said about cars, "Speed costs money, how fast do you want to >go?" > Reminds me of the old engineering saying "quality, speed or price, pick any two". David -- David Littlewood | ||
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| On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:29:43 +0000, David Littlewood >In article <8M1kf.2732$4v.732@fed1read03>, Skip M > >>"SimonLW" >>news:439096d9$1_5@newsfeed.slurp.net... >>> I'm looking for an upgrade from this lens. I'm looking for a bit more >>> speed and sharpness on the long end. While not bad, the 18-55 shows some >>> chromatic aberration (purple fringing) at some settings. The curved ocean >>> horizon shots didn't look that great either thanks to lens distortion. >>> >>> If you have experience with your lens under various shooting conditions, >>> I'd like to here from you. >>> Thanks -S >>> >>> BTW, I'm using the 6mp Rebel. May upgrade to the next Rebel (hopefully 10+ >>> mp) when it is released. >>> >>It depends on what you want to spend. The 17-85 f4.5-5.6 isn't any faster, >>but is a better lens, wide to long, wide open to stopped down. The 17-40 >>f4L is an f4 for its entire range, so it's a stop faster on the long end, >>and is an excellent lens, especially for $600 or so. Or you can go to the >>24-70 f2.8L, 2 stops faster at the long end, much sharper, and $1200. >>Probably your best choice with more than 8mp are factored in. >>Like the man said about cars, "Speed costs money, how fast do you want to >>go?" >> >Reminds me of the old engineering saying "quality, speed or price, pick >any two". > >David And, of course, the "Racer's Creed": overkill is just about right. -- Bill Funk Replace "g" with "a" funktionality.blogspot.com | ||
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| Skip M wrote: > Or you can go to the 24-70 f2.8L, 2 stops faster at the long end, > much sharper, and $1200. If losing the wide end isn't a problem, what about the 24-85/3.5-4.5 ? Not that it's going to hold a candle to the 24-70L, but it's quarter the price. - Len | ||
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| SimonLW wrote: >I'm looking for an upgrade from this lens. I'm looking for a bit more speed >and sharpness on the long end. While not bad, the 18-55 shows some chromatic >aberration (purple fringing) at some settings. The curved ocean horizon >shots didn't look that great either thanks to lens distortion. Image distortion can be an issue with almost any extremely wide lense. You'll have to learn to ignore it, deal with it in software, or buy specialized lenses that have little or no barrel distortion. >If you have experience with your lens under various shooting conditions, I'd >like to here from you. I have the excellent Canon 17-40 f/4 L and use it all the time. It's very sharp wide open at the wide end, and has excellent optical quality. It's about half the price of the 16-35 f/2.8 L and performs just about as good, except for the aperture of course. I also have the Canon 70-200 f/4 L telephoto lense, and it too is of excellent quality. These two lenses cover 99% of what I need, and they never failed to impress me with their optical quality. They're real price/performance gems. >BTW, I'm using the 6mp Rebel. May upgrade to the next Rebel (hopefully 10+ >mp) when it is released. Don't get too wrapped up with the number of megapixels. I have the Rebel XT (8mp) and would have been just as happy with a 6mp sensor. Unless you want to really blow up prints to massive images, the number of pixels in the sensor isn't that critical. When I made the move from film to digital, I waited for Canon to release the right combination of features, performance, and price (I already had several Canon lenses). I almost bought the Canon 20D, but heard the Rebel XT was coming out with similar performance. I grabbed one as soon as I could and I've been a happy camper ever since. Features and performance are the important things to worry about. Forget about marketing hype and the megapixel numbers game. | ||
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| "Bill Funk" news:2ie3p1lona78bo6nn70h0mh77rvlk6o4bn@4ax.com... > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:29:43 +0000, David Littlewood > > >>In article <8M1kf.2732$4v.732@fed1read03>, Skip M >> >>>> >>>> BTW, I'm using the 6mp Rebel. May upgrade to the next Rebel (hopefully >>>> 10+ >>>> mp) when it is released. >>>> >>>It depends on what you want to spend. The 17-85 f4.5-5.6 isn't any >>>faster, >>>but is a better lens, wide to long, wide open to stopped down. The 17-40 >>>f4L is an f4 for its entire range, so it's a stop faster on the long end, >>>and is an excellent lens, especially for $600 or so. Or you can go to >>>the >>>24-70 f2.8L, 2 stops faster at the long end, much sharper, and $1200. >>>Probably your best choice with more than 8mp are factored in. >>>Like the man said about cars, "Speed costs money, how fast do you want to >>>go?" >>> >>Reminds me of the old engineering saying "quality, speed or price, pick >>any two". >> >>David > > And, of course, the "Racer's Creed": overkill is just about right. > > -- > Bill Funk > Replace "g" with "a" > funktionality.blogspot.com "No replacement for displacement." -- Skip Middleton http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com |