I would guess as is typical of market behavior, a premium is paid for supposed
above average quality....the question always being how much more is fair to pay
for "above average" quality or performance?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce & Wendy Hamm <bhamm@xxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, January 05, 2001 11:15 AM
Subject: [OM] Lens recommendations
Hi Folks,
I believe that this was eluded to a couple of days ago, but there hasn't
been much comment on it so I thought I might raise it again. The question is
are there cases, where zuikos of the same focal length are offered in different
models, when one should not look to purchase the lens with the fastest
aperature. I'm thinking, for example, of the 35-70mm with f3.6, f3.5-4.5, f4 or
the 100mm f2 vs f2.8, 135mm f2.8 vs f3.5 etc. Are their situations where the
slower lens is actually of better quality than the faster? Or situations where
the jump to the faster aperature results in a disproportionate increase in
price vs performance? I think this info would be valuable to those of us
zuikoholics that are relatively new to all of this.
Thanks,
Bruce
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