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Headphoneus Supremus: Videographus Supremus: Makes audio cables using super-advanced materials, like "some clear tape" and "some not so clear tape."
Originally Posted by Edwood
Yeah, that's the problem with zoom lenses. Never really consistent across the focal length range. With prime lenses there is only one to contend with, and it's always the same quality. For better or worse.
-Ed
It's just the nature of lenses in general and it takes time to learn all the qualities of a lens. Even a prime will behave differently at different f-stops and sometimes focus distances.
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lan's Head-Fi International Meet 2008 "CanJam" High Definition Videos! are here
lan's Head-Fi Meet 2007.Nov.10 High Definition Videos! are here
lan's Head-Fi International Meet 2006 High Definition Videos! are here
My advice to you:
- Use your own ears as everybody's hearing and preferences are different.
- Try to audition as much equipment as possible to find your sound.
- Buy used to save money.
Check out Jim Radcliffe's Leica dlux3 and Sigma dp1 galleries: Leica D-Lux 3 Photography by Jim Radcliffe which just shows you that in the hands of a skilled photographer, anything is possible!
Thanks for this link. Portfolios like Radcliffe's have always been really inspiring to me as a photographer. To see his use of composition and lighting elements in simple yet powerful combination is exactly the kind of thing that gets my eye working better. We can learn; we can grow and improve.
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Doing my duty . . . . the way I see it.
"The trouble with most people is not what they don't know, but what they know for certain that isn't true."
Mark Twain
Well, I had a lot of free time today so I decided to try out my 18-200VR again.
It is pretty nice at it's max telephoto focal length, but the pictures I took at the wide end where horribly blurry. Nothing like what I could expect from my other lenses. Colors were also lacking quite a bit.
Wow........ These new primes have really spoiled me. I remember when my 18-200VR was the best I had.
In other news, I'm having fun using the nikon 60mm micro. It's darn sharp, which I love! Like others have said, you do have to get very close to do macro, which can be a pain.... especially when you don't like bees all that much. ^_^
Yeah, it can be tough to use the 18-200 when there are better lenses about. Although I took it to Can Jam with me, I only found one use for it, in the 100+ shots I took, namely capturing a shot in Mikhail's amazingly dark room. Other than that VR-needing situation, it just sat. It's hard for me to use it on outdoor (i.e. good light) pictures any more, as it's only marginally sharper than my digicam (Fuji E900). I almost certainly will replace the 18-200, but I just can't decide on what to replace it with.
Headphoneus Supremus: Videographus Supremus: Makes audio cables using super-advanced materials, like "some clear tape" and "some not so clear tape."
You have a gap from 36-179mm right?
I like the 55-200VR. It's cheap, light, small, and pretty good. But it's a cheaply built lens and some people may not like that.
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lan's Head-Fi International Meet 2008 "CanJam" High Definition Videos! are here
lan's Head-Fi Meet 2007.Nov.10 High Definition Videos! are here
lan's Head-Fi International Meet 2006 High Definition Videos! are here
My advice to you:
- Use your own ears as everybody's hearing and preferences are different.
- Try to audition as much equipment as possible to find your sound.
- Buy used to save money.
If you can't take a great picture with an 18-200 VR, there's something wrong somewhere. Mine is nice and sharp with great color. I've shot in a bunch of different situations with it with no problems at all.
If you can't take a great picture with an 18-200 VR, there's something wrong somewhere.
Well.............................................. .
All of my primes just give me a much sharper picture vs. the 18-200VR. I don't know, but I personally really like sharp pictures. I also love colors, and again the primes just give me better results, which doesn't make sense to me but........... it seems to be the case.
I took some similar shots today with my 60mm, so I'll have to compare sharpness and color.
I like the 55-200VR. It's cheap, light, small, and pretty good. But it's a cheaply built lens and some people may not like that.
Yeah, as crazy as it sounds, that's my gap at the moment, not counting the 18-200, lol. It works for what I do though, as the 180 is good for sports and portraits, the 35 for product and general photography, and the 10-20 is now my meat & potatoes scenic lens. Perhaps the simplest tweak to my kit would be adding an 85 1.8 for another perspective control outdoors, and looser portraits. I'm pondering that among other options. The Sigma 50-150 looks intriguing.
Originally Posted by bigshot
If you can't take a great picture with an 18-200 VR, there's something wrong somewhere. Mine is nice and sharp with great color. I've shot in a bunch of different situations with it with no problems at all.
My issue with it is that I feel the shots I take with it could have been better looking than they result (inc. PP). It was a fun lens to learn my preferences with, and the VR can come in handy, but it seems somewhat pointless to use when there are so many lenses available with fewer optical compromises, unless one needs to avoid changing lenses at all costs.
It was a fun lens to learn my preferences with, and the VR can come in handy, but it seems somewhat pointless to use when there are so many lenses available with fewer optical compromises, unless one needs to avoid changing lenses at all costs.
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