My wife had a Canon Rebel 2000 with an EF 20-35 3.5/4.5 and an EF 28-135 IS. She never used them because she didn't like carrying the weight around. To her a Digital Rebel was different but essentually the same. She had me sell the two lenses on ebay to pay for her new Nikon. John
--- Willem-Jan Markerink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 May 2005 at 13:55, John Lovda wrote: > > > My wife just purchased a Nikon CoolPix 8400. It > is an > > 8mp, point and shoot camera with a 24-85 > equivalent > > zoom. The widest, wide angle out there. She > picked > > that particular camera just for that reason. She > > loves it. > > Good choice, indeed no other way to get signficant > wide-angle with a > hybrid/non-SLR, but still too large for a > pocket-camera....;(( > > And once the bag gets bigger anyway, the step > towards a real DSLR > becomes justified very easily....too easily.... > (but that's perhaps because I can't vision anything > ergonomic > inbetween pocket-camera and (the smallest-possible) > backpack....;)) > > OTOH, an older Sigma 14mm/f3.5 is all you need for a > relatively cheap > > configuration; even on a half-size sensor DSLR still > wider than an > 24mm equivalent.... > (that old f3.5 is also a lot more compact than the > current f2.8 btw, > if you stay with that argument) > > > Willem (who couldn't vision shooting car pix, both > indoors/total & > interior/detail, with any larger focal length, on a > DCS3....so even a > > 24mm-equivalent pocket-camera would be a compromise > (but 'luckily' > the flash capability would have been anyway)) Jan > > > -- > Bye, > > Willem-Jan Markerink > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
