A new lens, I’m in love.
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Awesome, I really like all the stuff I’ve seen out of that lens.
I reallreallreally hope Canon bring out something like it in this next round of new lenses..
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Aaron,
Out of curisoity, what were your respective apertures on the pictures above? Are wide angle 2.8 lenses different from other lenses in that they still give a large depth of field at 2.8? Otherwise, it would seem that a wide angle at 2.8 would not be very useful for landscapes where you want everything in view to be in sharp focus?
In order: F/ 2.8,5.6,2.8
Yeah, Aaron, that was my understanding too until recently. As I have been reading, I learned that it seems that your maximum sharpness is somewhere in the middle range of aperture… say 2 stops less than wide open to about f8. Apertures smaller than this achieve large DOF, but the image quality may suffer due to diffraction.
It seems to me, from what I have read so far, that the maximum sharpness with maximum DOF, would be achieved by using the best part of a particular lens, say f 5.6 – 8.0 set at the hyperfocal distance (you may be able to go larger aperture with a 2.8 lens?) But all of this is what I am still trying to resolve in practice.
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