On 20 Jul 2003 at 23:57, Pål Jensen wrote: > Gregory wrote: > > I'm going to guess that this sort of advice appeared with early zooms, > when the quality really was pretty bad. But they've been improving for > half a century or so, and are a lot better now than they used to be. But > there seems to be a lot of very old photographers that hang on to old > advice for a long time. > > > REPLY: > > Yes, about 20+ year old advice...
So prime lens development has stagnated for 20 years? Not according to companies (who actually communicate to their users) like Leica. The comparison is Zooms vs Primes, currently most zoom lenses are better than their earlier brethren however the best current prime lenses still whip their asses in the areas of sharpness, speed, contrast, flare resistance and distortion. For instance my Pentax FA 24-90 zoom does not out perform my Leica 90/2 APO- Summicron-M ASPH. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
