Best standard Zoom of all time?

1 week 4 days ago #763612 by Roy Wilson
Can we all agree that the 24-70mm is the BEST zoom lens of all time?  

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1 week 4 days ago #763618 by Scotty
Easily without a doubt 70-200.

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1 week 3 days ago #763630 by Tristan R

Scotty wrote: Easily without a doubt 70-200.


Wouldn't this be more of a tele zoom?  Or does that fall under the same bucket?

Standard Zoom I would have guessed would fall between 24 and 100mm.  That said, 24-70mm if I'm correct would be the best in this range.  


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1 week 2 days ago #763636 by Hassner
The one on my camera. 
The best photos are made between the ears of the operator behind the camera. 


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1 week 2 days ago #763642 by TCav
Define "BEST".


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1 week 1 day ago #763662 by db3348
Hassner wrote : 

The best photos are made between the ears of the operator behind the camera. 

:agree:       :thumbsup:

TCav wrote :

Define "BEST" .

Exactly : Price, performance , ................

For me it was the Nikkor 43–86 mm in the 1970s and 1980s .


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1 week 20 hours ago #763703 by CharleyL
I presently have many lenses, but my Tamron 18-400  F/3.5-6.3 is the one that always goes with me when I leave the studio. I may take others, but tend to use this one more often. Sometimes it's the only one that I take, as I can shoot most anything near, far, or in between, and without the need to change lenses.

Charley 


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1 week 20 hours ago #763704 by TCav
The Tamron SP AF 17~50 mm F/2.8 XR Di-II LD Aspherical [IF] (Model A16) on an APS-C body outperforms every 24-70/2.8 available on a 'Full Frame' body.

I have two, one for my Sony and one for my Pentax.


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6 days 21 hours ago #763750 by Moe
For me, 24–70 mm all day long


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4 days 17 hours ago #763820 by Overread
70-200mm is the big win


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4 days 5 hours ago #763827 by Scotty

Tristan R wrote:

Scotty wrote: Easily without a doubt 70-200.


Wouldn't this be more of a tele zoom?  Or does that fall under the same bucket?

Standard Zoom I would have guessed would fall between 24 and 100mm.  That said, 24-70mm if I'm correct would be the best in this range.  


You're right.

24-70 would be the correct answer :)

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and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.

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2 days 6 hours ago #763847 by Garbo

TCav wrote: Define "BEST".


LOL I was going to say the same thing.  Best can mean a lot of different things to different people.  

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12 hours 47 minutes ago #763890 by Kenta
Wouldn't a 70-200mm be a telezoom?  


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