Well in sunny and partly cloudy weather a slower zoom
is fine. Get anywhere where there isn't good lighting
though and you'll have to use a tripod or strong flash
or high speed film or a combination of the three. Also
be prepared to have pretty severe barrel distortion at
the wide end and pincusion at the long end. Zoom
lenses that are 3.5-4.5 are fine as a replacement for
the occasions you are looking for. Test slower zooms
though since they are usually of much cheaper build
and optical quality and might have to be stopped down
to get acceptable results.
Mark Lloyd
--- Olympus List <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My 28mm is an f2.8, my 50mm is an f1.8, my 90mm is
> an f2.5.
>
> That being said, I'm thinking about buying an "all
> in one" zoom lens for my
> "camera and one lens only" trips... But I'm
> wondering, when is a lens too
> slow?
>
> The ones I've been looking at which are compact and
> still give great range
> (28-105mm) are like f3.5-f5.3 or something like
> that.
>
> Is that really dark? Am I going to have to
> compensate (for hand held shots)
> with faster film and thus get reduced fineness on
> the film side, or else
> bring a tripod so I can use longer exposures and
> thus defeat the purpose of
> using a zoom lens as far as carrying convience??
>
> Thanks.
> Albert
>
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