Some days ago there was a discussion about wide angles and lens speed.
One of my favorite lenses for years have been my 24/2, which I always use
when traveling. I don't know if it is better or worse than the 24/2.8 (a
lens I used on a trip to Egypt some years ago and brought back a lot of
nice slides) and I guess that in most cases the lens speed difference does
not matter much.
But if you, like I, use slow slide films and take pictures indoors or in
other low-light situations, the one F-stop difference makes the difference
between taking a picture on F2 at 1/15th of a second and F2.8 at 1/8 th of
a second, which might cause blur. And the faster lens makes it a little bit
easier to focus in poor light, too.
Lars Bundesen
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