11-28-2010, 02:39 PM
[quote name='Brightcolours' timestamp='1290953516' post='4519']
So a 17/18-50/55mm f2.8 lens just always makes more sense.
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Wrong. I sold my tokina 17-50 for a canon 17-85 and couldnt have been happier with the decision. In fact the 17-85 has proved to be my "best selling lens" eg. more than half of the pics I sold were taken with that very lens. Its personal preference and shooting style that decides which lens you buy. No one lens "always makes more sense" to everybody.
If I am serious about portraits, I usually look for a evenly coloured background. Simply throwing a messy and distrcating backround oof will not give comparable results, its the method for the lazy yielding inferiror results. Finally comparing dof of the 15-85 with a point and shoot, is quite daring.
So a 17/18-50/55mm f2.8 lens just always makes more sense.
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Wrong. I sold my tokina 17-50 for a canon 17-85 and couldnt have been happier with the decision. In fact the 17-85 has proved to be my "best selling lens" eg. more than half of the pics I sold were taken with that very lens. Its personal preference and shooting style that decides which lens you buy. No one lens "always makes more sense" to everybody.
If I am serious about portraits, I usually look for a evenly coloured background. Simply throwing a messy and distrcating backround oof will not give comparable results, its the method for the lazy yielding inferiror results. Finally comparing dof of the 15-85 with a point and shoot, is quite daring.