Stacey_K

The 11-22 is a really nice lens. Going from 14 to 11mm is a bigger jump than it would at first seem.

To the OP, this should answer your question. ^

Have a look at the tamron 70-300. most reviews between them say the tamron is better on the long end and is cheaper. I love mine.

I did, the 24mm f.4 prime is the newest 24mm they have, the other option is the 24mm f2.8D. neither are super performers. My point was, not all "primes and better than zooms" and not all "zooms are...

Here is what I did. Have you ever handled that lens? I did and it was simply too large/heavy for me to use comfortably. I got the 16-85 and then got a 85 f1.8G for a fast portrait lens. I've been...

The lack of recordable actions is a deal breaker for me.

Lack of actions are why photoshop elements is useless to me. I have a "lift shadows" and sharpening actions I honestly would not want to live without. I would hate to have to manually go through...

How in the world is supporting Adobe in any way related to "taking care of the collective whole"? So we should pay Adobe tax just because we also pay property tax which helps cover public...

Bad analogy. You use up the gas, that's why you buy it. It can't continue to work after you have used it. Same with internet bandwidth etc.  I'm still using CS-2 and thank you very much it does...

It's also 4X the cost of the Tamron 70-300. I guess you missed the "won't break the bank" part? :)

Exactly the point I was trying to make. I ran into this issue using wide lenses on medium format film. Any film flatness issue would ruin the resolution even with the lens stopped down some. For...

Because a wide lens has less dof behind it. Problems at the focal plane (in the past was film flatness) shows up much more with a wide lens. Go look at a older MF prime wide vs tele lens. Look how...

OK from this a couple of lenses you might want to look at: I am a big fan of the 70-300 VC tamron. For the money it's hard to beat and would think is a nice lens to shoot trains with hand held. Not...

That simply just isn't always the case. NC on that one. You pick the absolute cheapest and easiest to make prime to compare with. Lets try again with a 24mm lens. The 24 F2.8 is pretty much a...

Not all primes are better than any zoom. There are many so so primes that don't have the IQ of a really good zoom.

Maybe describe some things the 18-105 won't do for you.

I don't follow all the incremental "updates" adobe does and am still using an old copy of CS-2 I bought years ago. I use capture NX2 for Raw so could care less about ACR updates. Are there really...

I picked the first. I understand their pricing but I as a hobbyist user can warrant the expense when I know I'm going to skip many generations. I bought CS-2 years ago and am still using it even...

Yes it's time for the "Variable aperture lenses always suck", "Demanding pros" nonsense to start lol

Why skip the details, I assume you are a lens designer to make this claim? Or just another person parroting the myth that a constant aperture lens has higher IQ...