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Help - 55-200 vs 56 1.2

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brownie314
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Re: Help - 55-200 vs 56 1.2
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britcam wrote:

brownie314 wrote:

This is great info - thanks.

I know I am asking a lot. This is high stakes for me - I get a chance to get a new lens very infrequently - it might be another 2 years before I get another one. So - whatever I get has to do a lot for me.

I get that this is a difficult thread. The two lenses are hardly comparable. But the real question is - if you could have one lens - would it be a creative lens - or something more like a really really good swiss army knife

It all depends on the sort of photography you do, buy by definition, I would have thought the zoom lens offers you many more creative possibilities ..

well - in some ways - yes.  It offers multiple focal lengths.  And honestly - I am leaning that way.

But - the siren song of 3cm of metal tube followed by a huge pool of blueish greenish glass is almost too much to resist.  Along with almost any time you find good light - the 56 can make that moment magic.

But yeah - the smart choice is the tele zoom.

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