Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!prophet From: prophet@umcp-cs.UUCP (Dennis Gibbs) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Wide-Angle Zoom lenses Message-ID: <2543@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 14:24:33 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2543 Posted: Thu Jan 17 14:24:33 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 01:24:29 EST Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 26 <> Recently in this newsgroup I posted a request for information about the Canon 28mm f2.0 wide-angle lens. I have received several replies on this lens, all of them positive. Recently, however, I became aware that Canon also has a wide-angle zoom lens that zooms from 24mm to 35mm, and it is an 'L' series lens, f3.5. This lens is quite a bit more expensive than the 28mm lens, but it seems that the zoom would offer much more versatility, since it covers three focal lengths. I am not a professional photographer, and I realize that a zoom might not have the sharpness of a fixed-focal length lens, but I have been satisfied with the shots taken with my 70-210 mm Canon lens. So it seems I must make a decision as to whether to get the 28mm lens or the 24-35 mm zoom. Are there any other tradeoffs other than a possible loss of sharp- ness? I am willing to make that tradeoff for the convenience of a zoom. Does anyone have any other suggestions for wide-angle lenses? Thanks, Dennis -- Call-Me: Dennis Gibbs, Univ. of Md. Comp. Sci. Center. UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!prophet CSNet: prophet@umcp-cs BITNET: GIBBS@UMDB ARPA: prophet@Maryland