Originally posted by Pentaxor I'm sure that there are excellent photographers that are pleased with mediocre lenses. but will these stop these excellent photographers from wanting high quality lenses? choosing a lens is not entirely dependent on the skill level of the photographer, but rather the capability to afford, want, need, and use for practical reasons. of course buying a lens for collection or simply for bragging rights are not one of the sensible reasons, but they are still reasons no matter how shallow they are.
I'm not at all condemning LBA. I'm just saying that, even though I desperately want a 70 LTD (probably two weeks from now, I'm thinking), I know it won't make *me* a better photographer, and in the end, the pictures represent ME far more than the GEAR. So we choose tools by the way *we*
feel about them, and put up all sorts of arguments for and against, using numbers - numbers that *aren't truly relevant to the final product*, and can only reflect a shadow of the "quality" of a lens. Fair enough?