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Subject: [OM] Re: Tamron 80-200 test shot
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:06:27 +0800
It is an unfair comparison, you should compare wide to wide or tele to tele. 
In my experience teles are performed better for night scene, at least my 
Zuiko 100/2 told me that is true.

C.H.Ling

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> I think its still very good even at 200mm perhaps at f2.8 its not quite as
> sharp at 200mm as 80mm but other than that I can't see any problems.
> Contrast is still very good. I have a shoot of the hong kong convention
> centre taken from kowlon over the river towards the convention centre done
> at about 1800mm to 200mm f5.6 or maybe f8 om4 ti mirror and app prefire on
> a tripod and its the sharpnest night photo I have done so far (I have to
> travel to hong kong on business 3 times a year and in the evens I have
> little to do apart from night photography)... Far better edges than the
> 24mm f2.8 Mv I have - which is *soggy* around the edges for night
> photography - realy disapointing! A little better than the Olympus 35-70
> f3.6 @ f8. I would say the edge definition on the 80-200mm night shoot is
> very very nearly equal to the centre definition of the Olympus 28mm f2!
> its only the weight that stops me carying around mountains each day.



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