Reply #2: Interesting point

[JeffR]

and I don't disagree about that. There's something very "bread and butter" about what this lens brings back. But I haven't walked around with a prime of this range for years and it was an instructive reminder of how lazy zooms have made me. Quality vs. cost on this was what made me decide to get it, based on what I'd read and examples I'd seen. If it spends most of the time untouched in the bag, that may be just as well since the build quality is so flimsy. But the optics are really impressive.