On 22 Jan 01 at 17:42, Jay D. Washington wrote:
> Peter K wrote
> ...
> >John is quoting from Canon's poor PR. He is also an avid Nikon user and
> >supported in part by Nikon so it would not be approriate to speak well of a
> >competitors product.
>
>
> I have to disagree Peter. I've read three of John's books and he does not
> push Nikon on anyone. Most of his picture just state focal length,
> aperature and shutterspeed. In his equipment selection sections of his
> books, he describes features he considers necessary, and most of these are
> available on many models from many different manufactorer. Please give him
> a little credit for being a professional. Of course he has to use one
> system or another, and if many of us had started 20+ years ago, we would
> have gone with Nikon. I can also forgive someone for operating equipment in
> accordance with manufactorer instructions and stating the limitations of
> this presents.
A pro should test first, and then report the results.
There are way too many journalists occupying themselves in reprinting
pressreleases....
Here is the other end of the IS testing 'scale':
http://www.poelking.de/deutsch/scharf.htm
(sorry, only in German, but most of it should become clear from the
tables & data presented)
His main conclusion is that *if* IS could work in cooperation with MLU
(it can't(!)), it would be *the* sharpest configuration possible on a
tripod.
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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