So to illustrate why it's great to have a small, normal view "walk about" lens with close focus capability built in, I quickly shot the sequence below. I started shooting from about 18 feet away to capture a fairly wide angle view of our teak Kennebunkport chairs and ended with a close-up from a few inches away of the missing wood plug on the left arm of one of our chairs.
Needless to say, there are probably more beautiful compositions I could have chosen to show the range of this lens, which I invariably use when I only want to take one lens on an outing or walk around town. However, I hope this sequence helps the curmudgeonly old man that sent me the email challenging the design philosophy of this lens. Somehow I doubt it as he'll likely find something wrong with my photos :)
(Note: Photos shot with K-x and DA 35mm Macro in RAW at ISO 400. I used CS4 to covert the RAW files into jpeg's for posting here on Blogger. Click on any of the thumbnails to see a larger file.)
