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Wednesday, May 17. 2006

Lens lust

(The Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 USM IS would be kind of tempting, but it costs the same as the 24-105. The better max apeture really isn’t worth the difference in quality between an L lens, especially since the 17-55 is useless on full-frame cameras.)

(Of course, this isn’t real lens lust, which would have a laundry list of enormously expensive lenses that are only good for quite specific purposes, like tilt and shift lenses, as well as hyper-expensive L class lenses.)

Posted by Rodger Donaldson in Photography at 21:19 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I want a fish-eye (for ubercam).

I want one so much!

I don’t, however, have a spare US$1,000ish to get one (secondhand..and especially not the US$2500 to get one new).

Steenking ubercam.

#1 Christine D. on 2006-05-18 17:14 (Reply)

Pshaw, a mere US$2500. A snip next to the uber-lens.

(Wikipedia is incorrect, though; Canon still list it in their catalogue.)

#2 Rodger on 2006-05-18 22:10 (Reply)

And now I have one of them—shiny new 50mm lens.

#3 Rodger on 2006-05-20 12:03 (Reply)

Yay for prime lenses.

As for the uber-lens... that’s just loopy!

#4 Christine D. on 2006-05-22 16:30 (Reply)

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