itai195 wrote: I miss having a manual zoom and the faster aperture.
I must be missing something. I have the 16-35 PZ and I can zoom with either the switch or manually with the zoom ring. Why do people say they miss the manual zoom?
I find that the PZ zoom ring needs a lot of rotation (a 90° turn) to go from 16 to 35mm, and I don't think you can adjust that.
And as others explained before, you don't know the focal you are currently at. For example with a manual zoom, you grab your camera in front of a landscape, peaks at the current FL, turn its power on (the camera not the landscape ) and already know that you are at 16mm so it is the widest you can get.
With a PZ lens, you don't know, so you have to turn the zoom ring to discover what FL you're at.
Jun 06, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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) and already know that you are at 16mm so it is the widest you can get.