Reply To: Fauxtogs who should end up on the main page…

[nesgran]

But with a big aperture there is no need to keep the shutter at 1/15, that is what I’m trying to say. You are fooling yourself if you think the colour rendition, contrast and sharpness will be as nice with the kit lens as one of the best L lenses available if you did a bit of PP on both of them. That said, the kit lenses are good for what they cost but they can’t compete with the versatility of the better lenses available. What you are finding is that the long focal lengths are thinning your DOF, why not just step closer with a shorter focal length if you are finding that the far eye is out of focus? What you gain with the bigger aperture is versatility, if you want you can stop it down but you can also chose not to depending on the shot.

The 200mm f2 is a beautiful lens but it costs about $6k new and is too long (imo) on a crop body for portraits. With the longer focal lengths you get the appearance that the ears are too close to the face as you get the compression setting in.