Expensive Lenses

[Dali]

Here we speak of expensive lenses, not good ones.

 

[Sirius Glass]

By owning and using the best photographic equipment that I choose to afford, deprives me of the right to blame a lousy photograph on the equipment and forces me to admit the the lousy photograph was a result solely based on my own work and lack of imagination.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

there is no free lunch , if you think your nikon 10 dollar lens is good , no such thing.

 

[removed account4]

good to one person is junk to another

 

[Dali]

there is no free lunch , if you think your nikon 10 dollar lens is good , no such thing.

And you think your $3000 Leitz or Zeiss lens makes a real-world difference? I am not that naive.

 

[removed account4]

And you think your $3000 Leitz or Zeiss lens makes a real-world difference? I am not that naive.

but if you had a huge camera to go with it, you would be a masterful photographer !

 

[Sirius Glass]

And you think your $3000 Leitz or Zeiss lens makes a real-world difference? I am not that naive.

Zeiss lenses on my Hasselblads make all the difference, so I see that you are naive and that you have a lot to learn. Sit back and listen but not to Mustafa as you have already figured out [ok so you are not naive].

 

[Dali]

Yeah, it would be the first step to create masterpieces but you know what, the more I hear that the less I am convinced.

 

[Paul Verizzo]

I'm going to bid on a spare, unused Hubble lens.............

 

[Paul Verizzo]

good lens is good lens , it saves you from doing countless things in darkroom , its like you have a ferrari , you can go other point earlier and with fun and proud , there is no bad logic behind this.

A Ferrari gets stuck in traffic just like my Buick.

Do you realize that cheap plastic lenses today, like in cell phones, are often as good as old, hand calculated, mechanically ground, uncoated lenses of 60 years ago? And that it's all diminishing returns? That a $10,000 lens in most cases won't take a better picture than a $200 one? That great pictures usually have more to do with the skills of the photographer than the lens quality?

All you have to do is look at all the fools with their digital auto-everything $3000 cameras and big glass and look at the results. Usually, they suck. No skill.