Who makes the best glass?

larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
edited March 25, 2005 in Accessories
Is there an acknowledged leader or "best" when it comes to our lenses?
Or do some mfgs make a better short lens and someone else makes the best long lens?
Is this something that has been pretty much nailed down or is it an area of argument?
Basically I'm looking for who makesthe best brightest clearest long lens...


anybody have any opinions comments or ideas.....
den.smugmug.com

Comments

  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    Canon. Sheesh.


    Harry? :cool
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    I'm wandering a bit out of my depth, but I think the myth is that Canon's better know for their long glass, and Nikon for their short lenses.

    In practice, neither you nor I could tell the difference. So it doesn't really matter.
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    ...is canon glass better than Ziess glass?
    den.smugmug.com
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited March 24, 2005
    lark wrote:
    ...is canon glass better than Ziess glass?

    Not if German is your native tongue. :D

    The merits of lenses are better discussed for specific lenses rather than in broad sweeping statements, but Sid is correct that in the most general of ways Canon is better regarded for its long teles with IS, and Nikon is favored as producing more consistently really good wide angles. But when you talk about a specific lens it is not this easy. Zeiss is highly regarded also, but again you have to discuss a specific lens for a specific camera for a specific purpose.

    Chose your system, Nikon, Canon, whatever and buy the best lenses you can. They will be with you a long time. When you are so good that you can see the difference between the very best from Canon and Nikon or Zeiss, then you will have arrived. Most of us are not anywhere near as good as our equipment is able.
    Pathfinder - www.pathfinder.smugmug.com

    Moderator of the Technique Forum and Finishing School on Dgrin
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    pathfinder wrote:
    Most of us are not anywhere near as good as our equipment is able.
    Amen to that.
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    Amen to that.
    Thanks you guys!
    I didn't know it but that's what I was after......I'll probably never know the difference.
    My glass (L's, etc.) is good enough, I don't have to look further than the Canon line.
    I thought Canon was the best when I switched, I just needed to hear it from y'all.
    Thanks
    Den
    den.smugmug.com
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    lark wrote:
    Is there an acknowledged leader or "best" when it comes to our lenses?
    Or do some mfgs make a better short lens and someone else makes the best long lens?
    Is this something that has been pretty much nailed down or is it an area of argument?
    Basically I'm looking for who makesthe best brightest clearest long lens...


    anybody have any opinions comments or ideas.....
    Nikon glass is the best. Just ask any NiKon user. Don't listen to the Canon users, they are biased. :D
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • ridetwistyroadsridetwistyroads Registered Users Posts: 526 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    Nikon glass is the best. Just ask any NiKon user. Don't listen to the Canon users, they are biased. :D
    thumb.gif


    Or, is a ford/chevy thing? rolleyes1.gif
    "There is a place for me somewhere, where I can write and speak much as I think, and make it pay for my living and some besides. Just where this place is I have small idea now, but I am going to find it" Carl Sandburg
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    ridetwistyroads wrote:
    thumb.gif


    Or, is a ford/chevy thing? rolleyes1.gif
    A little more like a North/South circa 1861 thing.
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    A little more like a North/South circa 1861 thing.
    Uhhh, Harry..... yer in the South. :uhoh
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited March 24, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    Uhhh, Harry..... yer in the South. :uhoh

    And I'm definitely in the North. But I used to use Nikon film cameras and they were very good. Either Canon or Nikon glass used properly will make very acceptable images. So will the glass from Minolta or Pentax or Olympus. Most of them are all good. But the "L" stuff from Canon is even better :D
    Pathfinder - www.pathfinder.smugmug.com

    Moderator of the Technique Forum and Finishing School on Dgrin
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    Uhhh, Harry..... yer in the South. :uhoh
    I know it Sid. Its quite similar to the Civil War except for the slavery issue. In this one I see Canon as the North with slave labor working for sub-standard wages churning out brain damaged Rebels to enslave unknowing consumers to their line of lenses. An evil empire to be brought down. We may be outnumbered but the Force is with us. :lol4
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    I know it Sid. Its quite similar to the Civil War except for the slavery issue. In this one I see Canon as the North with slave labor working for sub-standard wages churning out brain damaged Rebels to enslave unknowing consumers to their line of lenses. An evil empire to be brought down. We may be outnumbered but the Force is with us. :lol4

    :lol4 :lol4 :lol4 and I don't own either one, Yet :D
    Benjamin
    My Galleries
    Flicker
    G+
  • ridetwistyroadsridetwistyroads Registered Users Posts: 526 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    I know it Sid. Its quite similar to the Civil War except for the slavery issue. In this one I see Canon as the North with slave labor working for sub-standard wages churning out brain damaged Rebels to enslave unknowing consumers to their line of lenses. An evil empire to be brought down. We may be outnumbered but the Force is with us. :lol4
    Aye, may the force be with you. :lol

    Live on, and prosper. :cool


    (yes yes, scifi crossover referance. shoot me, i'm from the south....rolleyes1.gif )
    "There is a place for me somewhere, where I can write and speak much as I think, and make it pay for my living and some besides. Just where this place is I have small idea now, but I am going to find it" Carl Sandburg
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    I know it Sid. Its quite similar to the Civil War except for the slavery issue. In this one I see Canon as the North with slave labor working for sub-standard wages churning out brain damaged Rebels to enslave unknowing consumers to their line of lenses. An evil empire to be brought down. We may be outnumbered but the Force is with us. :lol4

    rolleyes1.gif And since I'm a Canon owner and live in ATL, you can call me Sherman.
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • KalamataKalamata Registered Users Posts: 97 Big grins
    edited March 25, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    rolleyes1.gif And since I'm a Canon owner and live in ATL, you can call me Sherman.

    times have changed, I'm old enought (just) to remember Eisenhower as President, while on a state visit Prince what's his name from Japan was denied permission by the state department to shot the President with his new Canon camera. It would send the wrong message.
    rolleyes1.gif
Sign In or Register to comment.