> At the moment there is only one way to figure this out, testing a particular > lens and body combination. There was a new program shown at PMA from DO > Labs that will predict what lens will work with what body best and correct > these errors. If you read French, "Chasseurs d'Images" is supposed to > publish some results of testing soon.
Hi to all, I have the Chasseurs d'Images right here. They tested some lenses with the 10D/300D and the 1Ds. The conclusions are very simple... Average lenses perform better with the 10D/300D that on normal film cameras. They perform very poorly on the 1Ds camera. The explanation they give makes sense and is easy to understand. The fact that the 10D/300D sensor is smaller, only the center of the lens is being used (the center is better than the edges). The 1Ds is a full frame sensor, and therefore, any imperfection of the lens can be seen on the picture, especially distorsion and vignetting. What they are saying about the 1Ds is not that the Camera does not perform well with lens, but rather that it does not forgive the poor quality of a lens, at all. What they also say is that, while, by the book, the camera is compatible with all EF lenses, only select few can be successfully used on that camera because of it's very low tolerance to mediocre quality. They do not list lenses that do not perform well with the 1Ds, but they conclude that if you are thinking of getting the 1Ds, don't think about lesser lenses... They also say that the problem should not be present on the 1D Mark II because of the size of the sensor that is a bit smaller. The 10D/300D give impressive results with most average to good quality lenses... And according to these tests, the 10D/300D kill the 1Ds when used with average quality lenses, because these two cameras make partial use of the lens... Voil�... If some of you feel they need more information from the article, please let me know. I am hesitant to translate it for you because it's few pages long, with a bunch of graphs... -- Patrice Chiniara [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://step.polymtl.ca/~dwarf "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
