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Originally Posted by xxpinballxx
WULF, funny you say that...i did just that last weekend. Boredom set in and I got out the two lenses and tested them both in a well lit area and a low light setting.
In both cases I manually focused and found the prime to be the much better shot of the two. The 18-55 kit lens came out a bit soft and the low light setting it was really inferior.
I think it showed me alot about the importance of glass. I knew good glass makes a difference but comparing the two really but the importance on good glass as oppose to getting a better camera. I was planning on a D300 or possible a D200 and a lens this spring but now and thinking along the lines of replacing my kit lens and 55-200 with some much better glass.
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I did a similar test with a friends 70-300 compared to my 300 f/4. It was night and day difference. Also a thousand dollar difference. When I bought the 300 I was looking hard at Sigma's 100-300 f/4. I heard good things about the lens, and it wood be great to have the variable size, but I've also read a lot about how primes always beat out the variables in image quality.