It is an unfair comparison, you should compare wide to wide or tele to tele.
In my experience teles are performed better for night scene, at least my
Zuiko 100/2 told me that is true.
C.H.Ling
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From: <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I think its still very good even at 200mm perhaps at f2.8 its not quite as
> sharp at 200mm as 80mm but other than that I can't see any problems.
> Contrast is still very good. I have a shoot of the hong kong convention
> centre taken from kowlon over the river towards the convention centre done
> at about 1800mm to 200mm f5.6 or maybe f8 om4 ti mirror and app prefire on
> a tripod and its the sharpnest night photo I have done so far (I have to
> travel to hong kong on business 3 times a year and in the evens I have
> little to do apart from night photography)... Far better edges than the
> 24mm f2.8 Mv I have - which is *soggy* around the edges for night
> photography - realy disapointing! A little better than the Olympus 35-70
> f3.6 @ f8. I would say the edge definition on the 80-200mm night shoot is
> very very nearly equal to the centre definition of the Olympus 28mm f2!
> its only the weight that stops me carying around mountains each day.
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