dariusz calkowski

April 27, 2006

If you like or have to travel light and take with you something with longer focal lenght IMO 70-300 is good to have. You can add teleconverter to it as well(at the cost of IQ) only not canon and probably not sigma but I heard that Pro kenko-tamron are almost as good. So if you can afford get both lenses + TC. After time you can sell one if you won't use it.

April 27, 2006

Canon's 100mm Macros have and they are flat as well.

April 27, 2006

We'll see what Tamron and Tokina will show up with new 17-50 and 16-50 f2.8. IMO with tamron there will be a lot of analogies to 28-70(tammy) and 24-70L. If price will be much lower then new canon but good optic they may still them a lot of buys.

April 18, 2006

Dodfrey -than you. No aperture ring makes them usles for me. Jim -I heard about tokina but i heard that it will be in stock at the end of year or even later but I can wait or get Peleng or Zenitar for the same price or cheaper.

April 17, 2006

Hi! Anyone used new 10-17 pentax fisheye? I'm interested in photos

taken with it or in links to reviews( I can find any on the net) I'm

thinking of using it on canon 20D is it possible? Thank you for your help.

April 15, 2006

I don't have any ,but I have 17-85 IS. It's f 4.0 at wide end and in low light IS is useless for candids. F 4.0 is too slow. Problem isn't camera shake but people movements. You need shutter about 1/60s and even with f2.8 it's hard to get it with ISO 1600 sometimes.

April 14, 2006

I don't have this lens but all lenses with focus distance switch have it to make AF faster when used to take a photos of a distant objects.

April 14, 2006

Landscape and buildings - 10-22Canon. Rest you can do with 50.

April 14, 2006

Thank you. Very interesting.

April 12, 2006

I've got 17-85 and IS is great but in low light it can't stop movement of people. Seems that you need 17-55. F2.8 means 2 stops faster longer end. Anyway fast primes are much better.

April 9, 2006

Yes. I have 100 and I'm very happy with it with my 20D. It's little long for portraits but at f 2.8 what a beautiful bokeh! In macro territory it's great and longer working distance then 60 is good for shooting shy creatures.It's heavy but balances well with the camera.

April 9, 2006

I agree with Dan. Even my 20D for 1000gbp have bult in 1888 rols of film what means few times more then the price of the film alone without the cost of prints.

April 5, 2006

"I happen to agree with many who suggested that the EOS 30D should really have been named the 'EOS 20D Mark II'." I agree-20D Mark II or 20D N.

April 4, 2006

Good interpolation may solve your problem wiht pixels but cant create details when they was missing of course.

April 4, 2006

I heard that it's not possible becouse canon don't want complains about not perfect readings but mayby I'm wrong.I don't know for sure.

April 4, 2006

I agree about internet and I hope that manufacturers know about it and it may push them to improove quality becouse more and more people will demand good performence of lenses they'll get for hard earned $$$.Many will return no good samples(it's much more easy for amateur to test lenses with digital on screen then print large and expensive photos from film)

April 4, 2006

My friend says: to take the picture first try wide angle.If you can't take it with wide lens try telephoto then.If you can't taske it wiht telephoto forget about the picture :-) Get 17-40 +70-200 and fill the gap with a fast 50 or if you will doing product photography consider in the future 45 tilt and shift.

April 3, 2006

Macro-100mm. It's great. 501.8 is fast good and cheap. If money are no problem for you get new 17-55IS. Should be very good. 17-85mm- very good range but not without problems at the wide end and slow(I have all tree [17-85,50 1.8 and 100Macro]and I'm thinking about selling 17-85 in the future and getting faster or wider lens-mayby new tokina 16-50 f2.8?) If you do not need wide get 24-70 or 24-105. Do you see full frame in your future?

March 23, 2006

28mm f2.8 + 35mm f2.0 +50mmf1.8 or f1.4

March 23, 2006

At the end of the year 20D may be cheap enought to come into your budget. 350D should give you better IQ but 10D seem to be more solid camera. I'd buy 350D becouse of better sensor , but if you find it to small consider grip or 20D.

March 22, 2006

Do you really need to replace your 28-80? If yes take a look at exif of your pictures taken in 24-80 range. If they are most taken with 2.8-4.0 buy faster lens,if with aperture 4.0 and more take IS. Buy what YOU need- not what the others want. Think also about prime-you have 20-35 and 80-200 so you can just fill the gap with 50 f1.4 (but I think you want versality of the zoom , don't you?)

February 11, 2006

Works great.You can still go up to 1:1 live size and fill viewfinder with smaller subject then on film body becouse of 1.6 crop factor.

February 7, 2006

I'd co with tamron-2.8 at 17mm ,cheaper then canon ,5mm on long end you have covered by other lens(es). Just test it before you decide to keep it.

January 27, 2006

My friend's working as a photographer and he's shooting mainly interiors with 20D and 10-22 canon lens. He is very happy with this lens , it's capability and IQ and he's bosses are happy as well. I've seen a lot of his pictures taken with this setup and results are stunning. If 10-22 is above your budget take a look at 10-20 sigma at fredmiranda you can find a lot of user reviews both lenses. 10mm an 1.6 crop body seems to be only way of getting real wide angle. Nobody makes prime lenses even close to 10mm so zoom seems to be only one answer if you need to go very wide.

January 20, 2006

Sigma may not work becouse of similar desing like canon. Make sure that money you spend are good invested.

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