In article <4hn50r$okt@nntp4.u.washington.edu>, marglin@saul5.u.washington.edu says...

>Are zoom lenses in this range of reasonable quality for general purpose
>use? If so, I would use it on a Nikon FE. If the image quality is
>lacking, I'd probably simply get a 20mm lens.

Why spend real bucks on an off-brand 20-35mm zoom of less than stellar performance quality when a really excellent Nikkor 20mm
f2.8 is available for roughly the same price? (And the Nikkor
20-35mm is so much larger, heavier, more expensive, and no better
than the Nikkor 20mm f2.8.) Personally, I find narrow-range
mid-range zooms much less useful than tele zooms, and the very narrow-range wide-angle zooms even less useful than mid-range
zooms (unless you absolutely cannot move), since it is so easy
to "zoom-with-your-feet" with shorter focal-length lenses when
not shooting infinity subjects.
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