The 24-85mm was bundled with the IX in a special box and the lens was
claimed to be a good match, being a 40-115mm (approx.) equivalent. It
WAS the same lens and I used it on a 35mm body too. The IX felt like
an attachement on the lens but it was a pretty and nicely balanced
outfit. When I sold them, having lost faith in the APS system, I sold
them separately as by this time the lens was worth more than the
body. There was a consumer grade 22-55mm lens (I think) rather than
18-55mm but that was also full frame. I'm surprised that there has
been no digital version of the IX as it was a very neat design.
The Nikon Pronea and Minolta Vectis lenses were APS image size I
think and may the basis for new digital lenses. But Canon held hard
to the 'full frame' lens for a long time, partly because they had an
advantage in designing a wide throat and shallow body for the switch
to EOS auto-focus in the late eighties. That's why they can do faster
lenses cheaper and why almost anything fits them with an appropriate
and simple adapter.
There was a claim that the 24-85mm had been upped in resolution for
use on APS as it appeared as a new lens at the same time as the
bodies - and it was 'acceptable' given the greater enlargement ratio.
On a 35mm body it is far superior to the standard nasty consumer
zooms but it is four times the price as well - I recommend it to
beginners. However, if you used the panoramic feature on the EOS IX,
then the limitations were shown as the enlargement ratio was far
greater on a 10x4 print of a section of the APS frame.
AndrewF
On 18/07/2005, at 12:38 AM, Andrew Dacey wrote:
>
> On 7/17/05, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> Well, I happen to have a 25-85/3.5-4.5, but not a 24-70. Are you sure
>> about the APS bit; that it is the same lens? Why would it then cover
>> 35mm? I also find it hard to believe that they put such a large
>> lens on
>> an APS camera.
>>
>
> I thought it was the 18-55 that shipped with the Digital Rebel that
> had come from the Canon IX bundle?
>
>
>
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