If that jerk would come see me I just might try out his lens...but...lets not get into that.


I thought that the 17-55 is supposed to be sharp wide open.


"This lens is sharp! Wide open and from edge to edge. Unless the distance is close that is - I'm finding that close subjects do not produce the same image sharpness as normal distance subjects." according to the review on this site...


So my question now, is what is normal distance versus close? I tried to gauge using the lens but i'm still a bit lost...