Some really good points to consider. Thanks. You're right about the
zooms being nice, too. I guess it's just a question of getting used
to the sticker shock. What appear to be the nice zooms in the C@non
lineup at the 16-35mm f2.8 ($1400), the 24-70mm f2.8 ($1100) and the
70-200mm f2.8 IS ($1700). Pretty brutal. Buy all three and you've
spent over $4K on three lenses. Of course, looking at those is in
keeping with a full-frame mindset. I've considered buying an EOS-1v
and shooting film for a while as I get lenses and get used to the way
their stuff works, but it's just so hard to walk away from Olympus.
There's a nice range of 4/3 lenses either out now or in the pipeline.
Six months or so until the next camera rollout. I'm sure I'll be on
the wait-and-see bench until at least then. It's a strange market,
IMO. Nobody seems to know exactly where they're heading. There's no
Cont@x or Leic@ up on a mountain somewhere setting a gold standard.
Everybody seems to have some good glass and some not-so-good glass.
Some decent bodies and some not-so-decent bodies. C@non has the
stranglehold on the upper end of the pro market, but their stuff is
so...I dunno...C@anon-y. ;-)
On Jul 16, 2005, at 12:30 AM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
> I had those concerns too. But almost all the manufacturers are
> building lenses with zoom ranges appropriate with the multiplier so
> that you actually have a useful range. Minolta just announced digital
> range zooms this week. I have seen enough comparisons so that I no
> longer really want a full frame digital. The existing lenses just
> don't work very well with a sensor with color aberration and
> vignetting in the corners.
>
> Since you mention single focal lengths, very little further
> development has gone into them except for the very long ones that
> have been redesigned to add VR or an internal focusing motor. The
> result is that, at least with Nikon which I know a little about, the
> development has gone into zooms, so much so that their own MTF charts
> on the Nikon Japanese site show the modern zooms to be superior to
> even their very best single focal length lenses. My impression is
> that it is the same for the other makers as well.
>
> But everything has become more pricey. How much was an automobile
> when you could buy a new OM kit with lens for less than $300?
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
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