On Feb 14, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > Nikon 17-35 f2.8 AF-S & 14-24mm f2.8G, both outperform all but the > rarest Zeiss and Leitz lenses in their ranges. The Zeiss 17-35mm f2.8 > for the Contax N is even better than the Nikon. The 14-24 in > particular is stunning at the wide end, possibly the best 14mm lens > ever made. > > Also the Nikon 80-200 AF-S and Minolta/Sony 70-200 f2.8 G SSM are > known to match or beat most f2.8 primes in their range. > > Downsides to all of these lenses is size.
... and of course that unmeasurable: the quality of their out of focus blur or rendering aspects. In this most primes still thump most zooms, even ones with superlative sharpness, contrast, chromatic aberration and rectilinear correction, hands down. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
