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- From: bruceb@mpd.tandem.com (Bruce Burden)
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- Subject: Re: 80-200/f2.8 for $$$, why?
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:42:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.182009.4194@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> ka1gt@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (robert.m.atkins) writes:
- >
- >1 - Ability to take pictures earlier or later in the day (nature photographers
- >often work at dawn and dusk).
- >4 - Better ability to throw backgrounds out of focus
- >8 - Tripod mount on lens (I think this is true for the example you quote)
- >
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- For me, these three points are key. Since changing from MF to
- AF, I have only one zoom lens (a 28-70 ATX), the others are prime
- lenses. I am considering the 100-300 ATX that Tokina recently brought
- to market as a flexible compliment to my prime lenses.
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- Since I am often working in low light conditions, a tripod mount
- is quite nice as well (only wish Minolta had done so with their 100mm
- macro...)
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- A point often missed is the ability to throw the background out
- of focus. I never appreciated this ability while working with the
- slower MF lenses I had. While shooting burrowing owls in a school
- yard the modular class rooms would have defeated the pictures had
- they been in focus. With the wider aperture, however, the buildings
- bacame a pleasing tan background.
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- Bruce
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