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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Bantel
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: EOS 7 and EOS 5/A2
>
>
> Alan Bell wrote:
> > That night I went Ritz camera to try a 7e. The salesperson put identical
> > third-party lenses on a 7e and a N80. One of the things that annoyed me
> > about the N70 and the N80 was that the AF tends to hunt in certain
> > situations, but I just thought that was characteristic of all
> AF systems.
> > The Canon focusing locked in without hunting and did it faster
> than the N80.
> > That's what kicked me over the edge. I came back and looked for
> a 7e and a
> > 28-105 USM (or maybe a 28-135 IS) on eBay. The next day I made
> arrangements
> > to return my new Nikon equipment.
>
> Interesting. What kind of situations do you mean?
Just outside the store, there was a large round pastel-colored column. The
N80 was confused and couldn't lock-in anywhere on the column. The 7e was
about to focus at various points along the curvature of the column and
without hunting.
> Sigma lenses aren't bad optically. Sometimes, especially at the lower end
> of the price spectrum, better than the Canons. They have a
> reputation for,
> hmm, not so very good mechanical construction, though. Maybe they
> have gotten
> better with their EX line of lenses, some of the older lenses
> literally fell
> apart. And you might run in problems with incompatibility when you buy a
> new camera. But they handle such issues reasonably well.
> Although, having to
> send a lens in for an upgrade is still annoying.
They will do for this month. But I've already started my search for
replacements. I do publication work and covert nice sharp full-page images.
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