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Old January 12th, 2009, 12:19 PM   #12
Evan Donn
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Originally Posted by Christopher Witz View Post
I don't buy the "less is more" idealism when it comes to optics.... I like the comfort of quality and perfection driven design and manufacture with the "option" to dirty things up in post.
I'm not talking about 'dirtying' things up via the optics, that's a whole different topic... I'm just saying that if the lens was designed as a high-quality optic for 35mm film it's going to work just fine for video on the 5D. In terms of used nikkor lenses I think it would be hard to argue that most of them weren't 'quality and perfection driven design and manufacture' - they're only 'cheap' now because the market favors auto lenses.
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