Title: Excellent Lens Quality -- but the wrong lens for me
Review: This is an incredible lens, delivering consistently great photos. Auto focus is fast and accurate. Of course, the bottom line is what kind of image quality will it dish up -- sharp, crisp, brilliant, excellent. People look at the pix I shoot with this lens and say, man, this looks professional. The only problem is, I can never back up far enough to get the right shot with this lens. Inside the house, crops are always too close. Walking down the street, if I want to take a photo of a nice house, I have to stand all the way across the street to get the whole house in the frame. I'm using a Canon D20 with the 1.6; that means this lens is a 70 mm or more. The 1.4 is great for natural light photos indoors, but it's kind of hard to make a semi-telephoto lens work for a birthday party or what have you. After a year with this excellent and beautiful lens, I'm now looking at 35 and 30 mm alternatives, because I can't make a 70 mm work for my needs.
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