In article <3346EA0F.3416@hol.gr>, mediadyne@hol.gr says...
>Bjorn Rorslett wrote:
>> Paul Strauss wrote:
>> > Tom Brown wrote:

>> > > Can anyone please let me know their experience with this lens? Thanks

>> > Great Lens, very sharp. and you can tell the difference. If you are
>> > planning on shooting landscapes the extra wide angle really makes a
>> > difference in you pictures. The F2.8 does not seem to be an important
>> > factor for me since I am using it outside and looking for depth of
>> > field, however at sunset it might be.

>> The DAF-IF 20-35mm f/2.8 Nikkor is one of my favorite lenses on the F5.
>> It is a great performer within its targeted field, which is
>> photojournalism. However, being designed for reporters this implies it
>> has best performance at fairly large apertures. It is *not* designed for
>> landscape photography nor does it perform well in this situation. The
>> reason simply is the lens looses too much sharpness at f/11-f/22, which
>> precisely are apertures used for landscapes where one desires a huge
>> DOF. In fact, I never use this lens for landscapes as my old 25-50 f/4
>> Nikkor by far outperforms the 20-35 f/2.8 here.

>Now I'm realy confused. Just about when I was getting to order this
>lens!(20-35)
>I need it for landscape work. Anybody have any other opinions???

Hmmm, unless the lens has some seriously decentered elements, I would
not expect performance inferior at f11-22 to that provided by another
similarly high-quality lens. A really poor lens could be worse at these
stops, but it would be worse yet at wider apertures... Smaller stops are
the great lens-levelers, since diffraction degradation is the same for all lenses for a given format at the same small stops. There may be some differences in corner performance even at small stops with super-wides
and wide-angle zooms, but I would expect most of the frame to look pretty
much similar in good lenses by f16, anyway...
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