[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Bantel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What I don't understand is, why Nikon uses silent wave only in
> > expensive lenses and fails to combine it with their version of IS.
> > This will cost them a bunch of customers.
>
> Yes, their SW lenses are a *lot* more expensive than the normal AF or
> AF-I versions of the same lens. In the UK, the 80-200/2.8 is pretty
> much twice the price to have the SW version. Never could understand
> how Canon manage to make the same technology so cheaply that they can
> fit it on lenses across the range. It must be fairly cheap because
> Sigma offer it too on a good number of their EOS fit versions. Aren't
> we lucky!
Yes, absolutely. Last weekend I had another opportunity to use my
28-135 IS USM zoom for some interiors. Tripod and flash not allowed,
with ISO 1600 print film and the IS zoom I got some - hopefully nice -
shots at 1/4 to 1/8 second f/5.6 - f/8 handheld. I could have used
the 28-70 f/2.8 at f/2.8, but then the DOF would have been still
shallower.
Thomas Bantel
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