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Not really since the $80 lens will have better IQ than many $800 lenses.

If LensRentals is financially connected to this site have we been told?

Can't I just go up in a plane like the OP?

Terrific.

Nice observation.

Not sure the background is 'noticeable' in that it isn't there.

It's a snapshot with dodgy voting.

hmmmmmm....

I mean that my eye doesn't know whether to look at the rain, clouds, or lightning,

Suffers from a lack of focal point for me.

My 55-200 wide open will create these circles all day long when photographing paths. So my guess is, yes, it can.

Thanks, that's put my mind at rest. I wonder why he brought compression up in the first place...

"If by using crop mode the angle of view of the image is equivalent to a 50 mm lens on full frame, and you stand the same distance from your subject as you would when using a 50 mm lens uncropped,...

Well I'm confused. I inferred from Bmcent1 that the OP's idea of using the lens in crop mode as a portrait lens was invalid since the perspective would not be correct. This appears to me to be...

So I had it right and the poster above me wrong?

eyes not lips

I thought cropping DOES change the compression. I'll never understand optics....

Processing spoils it.

really nice.

excellent