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Anyone with the new Samsung 16-50mm f2-2.8

Started Apr 29, 2014 | Discussions thread
Kaziklu Senior Member • Posts: 1,301
Re: Anyone with the new Samsung 16-50mm f2-2.8

Samsunguser wrote:

Kaziklu wrote:

It's not a matter of is it better then the Primes.... the primes should and will almost always be better.

I really expect this zoom has AT LEAST THE SAME quality of the primes lens with same focal, other way (with its high price) is a nonsense

The price for this kinda of tele lens is always in this range... this is in fact at the low end of the range I expected it to be in.

It is not cheap to get a lens to be f2-2.8 through out the range. That is why 35mm 24-70 and 70-200 f2.8 lens' are always very expensive.

What you are paying for is the zoom. Right now B&H has fairly low prices for the 4 (16,20,30,45) Primes and they come out to be 100 cheaper then the 16-50 but what you pay for is the convenience and the ability to use the whole range in one lens' at a good quality.

I don't shoot events, or weddings, and I don't do travel photography, so I may not go after this, as I really only need the 30 and 16 lens. and I would usually use them at different times.

But I want to know the quality because I want to see a 50-135/150 that I would use.

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