Found this lens comparison chart, thought it may be useful.

http://www.the-digital-picture.com …omp=0&FLIComp=0​&APIComp=0

Someone linked me to this. If it's been on here before, or there is another thread about it...well...sue me.

alabama1980 wrote in post #13065800
Someone linked me to this. If it's been on here before, or there is another thread about it...well...sue me.

Brace yourself...

Should I go ahead and call my lawyer? I DID search, but lo and behold it seldom fails that some high and mighty with a photographic memory will recall seeing it three years ago, and pretend to take it personally.

Besides, this is one of those things people wouldn't really search for...

Yea I dunno ... I haven't even been around long enough to say I saw it years ago. There's always one. But FWIW I find that whenever I google a lens, a TDP link is near the top so ... that's how I know about it.

Heresy!

I've seen that page many times before but I'm not sure how it works. Does the arrow in the middle point to the one you're currently viewing?

mike_d wrote in post #13067294
I've seen that page many times before but I'm not sure how it works. Does the arrow in the middle point to the one you're currently viewing?

Yes. Mouse over the arrow to see the other lens.

Something useful on that site:

When crops are available for the lens with an extender, you can pull down the "focal length" menu - it's not just for zoom lenses. It doesn't work for the current selection (50mm lens) because that isn't extender compatible.

I'm new here, so that's the first time I've seen that comparison site. Thanks for nothing! Now I'm suffering from an extreme case of Gear Acquisition Syndrome because my lenses are inferior.

Neiby wrote in post #13069935
Now I'm suffering from an extreme case of Gear Acquisition Syndrome because my lenses are inferior.

They probably aren't that bad. Keep in mind that generally the "sweet spot" for a lens, where it does best, is two to three stops down from wide open. Wide open, you'll get maximum uncorrected aberrations left in the lens design, and stopped down to the far end, you start getting diffraction around the diaphragm, causing slight image degradation. This diffraction is less pronounced with longer focal length lenses since the aperture is physically larger even at small f-stops.