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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I made that comparison because I have these two zoom lenses but they are consumer level (one is the one that came with the camera, the Canon Rebel Digital). And the one I'm looking for is a fixed 35mm lens. People keep telling that lens is an important element of the final quality of the picture and then, I was looking for some good quality lens and, obviously, they are all too expensive, I can't afford them. A little more research and I found a Canon lens, the EF 35 mm f/2, no USM, absolutely no fancy feature but, according to all the reviews I read, its optics is superb for the price, around $230. Well, I can afford to spend this amount for a good quality lens and according to those reviews, and they are a lot, this lens is supposed to give results almost as good as its equivalent "L" series sister. But the "L" series equivalent lens is one thousand dollars more expensive. So I thought: is it worth spending these 200 bucks? It's a fixed lens, 35mm is the equivalent to 55mm in my camera, this is one of the most used focal lens for me, so I am thinking on giving it a shot. It has no USM, almost all reviews agree that its biggest and probably only weakness is that its AF capability is noisy. Well, I don't mind the noise if I can get good optics, for the sake of learning how much of a difference better optics can do (well, as much better optics as my budget can afford). Besides, there is always the manual focus option. I've taken some pictures with my current two zoom lens, and both indeed seem to suffer from that problem as described in the link above: far away trees that are supposed to be green look rather dark. I am able to correct the problem using Photoshop, but I wonder how much better the picture would be if I had used a better lens. Loading...
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