"Gisle Hannemyr" wrote in message
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"Alien Jones" writes:

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The 18~55 kit lens which comes with a Digital Rebel and a 20D is not
glass but acrylic plastic. It has the distintion of being one of the
lightest zoom lenses Canon make. It is also a pretty good lens in
it's own right and I offer a few examples of it's resolution
capabilities,

... at 350 x 228 pixels, JPEG-compressed to hell.
I am not dissing your lens - but your "examples" are a bad joke.

If you don't want to post full size images for bandwith reasons,
why don't you - at least - post some crops from a full size frame? --
- gisle hannemyr [ gisle{at}hannemyr.no - http://folk.uio.no/gisle/ ]
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I would have thought the pictures demonstrated many aspects of a lens's
usefulness, regardless of the size or compression of the pictures. The peg,
demonstrates crisp focus. The backlit beach scene that the lens has minimul
flair, the red geranium, that wide open at full aperture, in poor light,
the lens is still usable and the frangipani's, that soft focus is possible
when using manual focus even though it is not a soft focus lens. I just
included the other photo because I liked it!

Basically I'm saying that if you take the time to understand your gear, how
much it cost is no measure of how good it is. None of this has any impact on
the size of the picture I posted, just reinforces my words. Why do you want
20 megabyte files anyway? How stupid is it to expect me to post 60 meg of
images just so you can examine every pixel in all it's glory while 50 other
people steal the images to re-sell?

The principal problem here is that I provided commercial images some of
which I sell, to reinforce my belief that a lens often described as crappy,
is in fact a reasonable quality lens. There is no way in the world I am
prepared to post any images that may have value, to the Internet in a form
which can be pirated.

Live with it Gisle, or don't look at them. If you seek images you can
download at full resolution, I can sell you some. Otherwise just accept the
reality of the Internet that people often (not just sometimes) steal
photographs, put their own name to them and then sell them as if they were
their own work.

AJ