re: #126 RealityBasedSteve

That said, I do carry a 15-85 (5.6 to 1 Ratio) but there is a reason that most of your top-shelf glass zooms are a 3:1 ratio). My own preference when I’ve been in the position to put together a lens kit is to have some overlap between lenses, not always possible, but nice.

Sorry if I’m being dense, but you kinda lost me there. What ratio are you talking about—do you mean magnification ratio like when you’re talking about macro/close-up photography or do you mean something else? I usually see that written as 1:1, 1:2, etc. (with the exception being specialized macro lenses like the Canon MP-E 65mm that goes up to 5:1).