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Old 20-11-12, 11:53
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Originally Posted by miketoll View Post
From what I have read over the years any 18-200 (or 18-270 or 300 or whatever) are a huge compromise trading convenience against image quality. If you want quality the consensus is to avoid such lenses.
Totally agree with this. In general anything with a zoom ratio of over 3x(ish) will start to suffer as it is basically impossible to optimise lens performance across such a range. So you end up with something that is good enough across the range, smaller ratios tend to mean better quality (within a similar price) and primes are even better.
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