Photographers are a funny bunch when it comes to their lenses. They can be downright persnickety. For example, there is a general disdain among serious photographers for so called 'kit lenses'. Which certainly makes a certain amount of sense, but us more pragmatic folks can sometimes benefit from such attitudes. I picked up a very lightly used copy of a 24-105 mm kit lens for half price ($200) and was perfectly happy to use it in Japan as my walk about tourist lens. While it works a treat outdoors, indoors, it struggles. But with the new AI tools at our disposal these days, many image problems can be corrected with a simple mouse click.
