Re: [APML]: Best lens manufacturers

[Cary Chleborad <bennu@ns.net>]

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> Hi folks,
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> I am also looking for camera lenses and wondered if anyone would care
> to suggest some good manufacturers/ bad manufacturers and rules of
> thumb for lens purchases.

Carl Zeiss optics win hands down...anybody that tells you different is
either inexperienced or to proud to admit that they can't affor them...
make sense?

On the affordability scale....

Best quality would be Nikon then Cannon, I'd avoid everything else,
especially Sigama, Tamron, Tokina, and Quantery.  In general, the third
party lenses are junk.

Oh yes...before all the flames....Photography is what I do for a
living... I live and breathe and study every aspect of it.  I have used
just about every brand and type of camera  in my career.  I am speaking
from hardcore experience, not just b.s.
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-Cary Chleborad   Sacramento, CA
Sacramento Valley Astronomical Society - http://www.calweb.com/~svas/