You can see differences in very critical situations between today's aspheric
element equipped lenses and yesterday's multi-element lenses. The
differences show up especially well in situations where you see chromatic
abberations, coma, and astigmatism, like point light sources. Not all the
lenses, just the best.
But most photographers don't exploit those characteristics or task the tools
close to their limits. Camera shake and poor execution negates many of
today's advantages.
The one big area that has had vast improvement is the high-ratio zoom lens.
The quality of today's 24/28-200 lens is nothing short of amazing. That's
one lens that I wish I had as an option on my OM bodies.
Personally, I question the longevity of today's plastic-glass sandwich
concoction that incorporates the all-important aspherical surfaces. I'll
bet many won't last. And the keep-weight-down-at-all-costs construction
paradigm of today's consumer lenses is a poor formula for longevity.
As an aside, I picked up a Canon Rebel-2000 autofocus SLR camera the other
day, and I was FLABBERGASTED at how light it was. It couldn't have weighed
25 oz. (I just checked at canonusa.com: body 12.6oz, lens 6.7oz = 19.3oz !!)
For crying out loud, it had a plastic lens mount on the body! I just hope
that these things don't get dropped. I guess the plan is that over their
10-15yr life, they will either get obsoleted, destroyed, or abandoned.
Skip imadinosaurandproudofit
From: ll.clark@xxxxxxxxxxx
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Trouble in OM paradise
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:38:42 -0500
In <110.9dbdf5f.294674a0@xxxxxxx>, on 12/10/01 at 03:27 PM,
Doggre@xxxxxxx said:
> But I'm skeptical that I could see any difference between photos
>taken with comparable lenses from the 70's era and today's newest
>offerings. Maybe in enlargements?
Not even then.
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