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Yes, the old 80-200 is excellent in terms of optics, but I am afraid

that we are forced to buy the new and expensive one some days later

as Nikon may discontinue the old zoom.

Hi, I don`t have any experience with the Sigma28mm, however, if you

have the Zeiss35mm already, the next logical step should be 25mmf2.8.

I don`t think the one stop difference will really make a difference

in wide angle. If you experience difficulty in wide angle end

already, how can you survive in the tele end with Zeiss?

Hello Shun, people often say F5 metering is superior to others, but

in what mode(s)? Are they comparing the things in matrix, central

weighted or spot? Because matrix may not be very useful to somebody

like me. $5000 may not be a hugh price difference, but the weight and

appetite (battery concern) of F5 really makes it like a monster.

If I were you, I would save more money and buy the EOS 3.

I also dream of a camera with 100% AF pt covering, and more

important, without any visible rectangles inside the viewfinder

before focusing confirmed.

I think may be Nikon wants to cut down the numbers of similar zoom

lens in this range. There are already 28-70f3.5-5.6D, 28-80f3.4-5.6D,

35-80f4.5-5.6D, 35-105f3.5-4.5D and the coming 25-105f3.5-4.5D.

Another 28-85D will be redundant.

I have also seriously considered MF several weeks ago, but I

tempoarily withold the idea now. I rented M7 and Pentax645N from my

local store, after seriously tried them for two weeks, I found that I

don`t suit the requirement of shooting MF yet. I am a amateur

photography lover, like you, I shoot mainly landscape, Macro, animals

and some portarit. I learned from M7 that I can`t survive with

rangefinder, problems from using filters, metering with different

lens with different focal length and the presence of the front part

of the long lens inside the rangefinder window annoyed me very much.

For the 645N, it was too far from perfect when you compared with a 35

camera. I intially planned to rent the Hasselblad but I have used too

much patience and energy when I tried the above two, I need some

rest:) Like you, I also like scanning films into computer then

printing them out. If A4 is enough for you, I highly recommend the

New Epson 750, it is close to perfect when compared with my old Epson

600 especially printing people.

Hi, I just want to remind those who are interested in EOS 3 but at

the same time owning a number of inexpensible third parties lens. The

latest issue of PP (GB) has found incompatibility between EOS 3 and

non-HSM Sigma and Tokina. Tamron lens are spared.

Hi WS, I am not a Nikon user and I don`t have any experience with the

Sigma and Tamron. However, there was a comparision test for Canon

100mm macro and the Nikon, Tamron and Sigma you mentioned in

Practical Photography (GB) several months ago, they came to the

conclusion that all of them do a good job but the Sigma and Tamron

are the winner for the value of money. As Sigma has a cool look and

it has HSM for Nikon, if I were you, I would buy the Sigma.

Yes, what I mean is "review" as correctly pointed out by Dave.

Thanks, I think I will save some money for a slide projector as I

don`t use to enjoy reviewing slides on a light box.

Hello, I haven`t used any medium format before and my knowledge about

it is close to a kindergarten student. May I ask how do you guys

revise the slides taken by medium format? Do projector for medium

format slides exit? Thanks in advance.

Dannis, if you know Chinese, try "http://www.popart.com.hk/",it is

the web site of the above magazine.

The latest Photography magazine"Camera and Photo News" in Hong Kong

has the full details and specialisations of this "beginner" camera.

It has three points (manual select) AF, GN 12 built in flash(A-TTL

and TTL), 90% viewfinder, 360g body weight, motor drive 1 fps only,

multiple exposure (2-9), AF speed of 0.34s and all usual exposure

modes,etc. To me, this camera is definitly inferior to the old EOS

100 although it has got the model no. of 88.

There are certain Zeiss primes especially the wide angle side have

inferior MTF curves than the third party equivalences in the test.

There are also some Zeiss lens with Macro capability are labelled as

not. I personally won`t trust anything from this web site.

To answer my own question, I just bought the new 28-70 zoom after I

played around with the other choices in the local camera shop.

Although I don`t know its quality as I haven`t made any print from it

yet, it is obvious the new zoom has the best body build among others,

both in terms of its two touch design and lighter weight. It is also

interesting that the len has its shortest physical length at the

focal length of 50mm, that means it is longer(only slightly) at its

28mm and 70mm ends in contrast to the rest which the physical length

are proportionally increase from the wide ends to the tele ends. As I

also own the Zeiss 100-300mm, I found this property is really an

advantage.

I have several Zeiss primes and the Zeiss 100-300 zoom, I am absolutely satisfy with their performance. However, I am now considering a wide to mid tele Zeiss zoom to improve my equippment versatility in some situtations (e.g. overseas travel with only one len, photography for indoor parties with flash, etc). There are several choices in this range including the new 28-70f3.5-4.5(325g), 35-70f3.4(475g), 28-85f3.3-4(735g), 35-135f3.5-4.5(735g), they come with different ranges, filter sizes, weights and of course prices. Does anyone has any experience with these lenses and whcih one do you recommend? Thank you!