-C lenses that would not mount on the D30/D60/10D, but Tamron, Sigma and
Tokina all seem to have stepped up to the plate...
I am intrigued by the plummeting prices on 20D's, but I would not be able to
use any of my cheap, funky old Sigmas on them... :-(
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From: Steven Ralser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EOS RBP511/512 batteries
The time has come for me to replace my batteries for my 10D. Is
there anything I should be aware of with generic batteries from ebay?
or does anyone have a good source for batteries
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e fully open and expose the entire film frame simultaneously... any faster
than than, and the shutter opening is a slit travelling across the film plane
formed by slightly offsetting when the first and second shutter curtains open.
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erence is that they are now multicoating the rear
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Last D30 cost me $250USD!
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nly do what we are directed to do
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uot;original" IS lens) then I'll definitely buy one. Mode 2
IS would be pretty useful, too, as I shoot a lot of motorsports.
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70-300IS
rotates when the lens is focusing? That is really the ONLY thing I don't like
about my
75-300IS, as it makes polarizer use "interesting", especially when you have the
lens
hood on! I wish the 70-300 DO IS cost about half
nymore. Really.
If the D30 was Canon's Model T, the 5D will be its Model A.
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Since you need REALLY short lenses at the wide end for small sensors, the
problem is compounded for consumer digicams.
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Anyone tried the Sigma 18-50mm f2.8? I'm curious...
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mas, why did you get a 10D and not a D60?
Trade in your 10D for a D60, pocket the approx. $200 difference, and be a lot
happier with your Sigmas and Canon DSLR...
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At 03:47 AM 1/23/2005, you wrote:
Just think though, a vacation lens that zooms from 18-125mm, is
compact and cheap enough that you won't cry if you lose it.
Just how bad is it though for $280 U.S.?
I'd love to see a good test on this lens.
It's good, provided you use it for what it was designed fo
At 12:12 AM 11/4/2004 +0100, you wrote:
Just wanted to know if the Canon A2 (US model) can be upgraded to include
the meter display used in the EOS 5 (non-US model)? Is it a hardware or a
software upgrade?
I guess my question would be... why? For the $150 Horizon Electronics
charges for the fir
At 01:10 AM 10/7/2004 +0200, you wrote:
Who knows where Canon prints their materials. If
they are printed in Japan, they'd have to be shipped to Germany.
Printed matter is HEAVY and therefore expensive to ship fast. Printing
in Europe is more expensive than printing in Asia.
I'd like to think the
At 10:31 PM 9/30/2004 +0200, you wrote:
I dont think that a new firmware release costs canon anything.
Ah, no. If they did, firmware and software engineers would never get paid,
nor would the people that test their work.
You've got to strike a balance between release dates and working features
t
At 02:44 AM 9/21/2004 +0200, you wrote:
Anyone daring the bet that we will *never* see a combined digi+analog
camera?
I thought that is what Leica is doing with the "digital back" for the R8/R9?
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0306/03062502leicadigitalr9.asp
By using another pellicle mirror system per
At 08:42 PM 9/14/2004 +0200, you wrote:
You can buy a secondhand DCS520 for less than a new 300D, and the old
1D goes for less than 2k right nowonly a matter of time before it
gets to 1k, or even the 0.5k of the DCS-range
What is the availability of chargers and batteries for these cameras
At 08:19 AM 8/30/2004 +0200, you wrote:
I agree with your need to keep the camera on, but I think you are
killing your batteries. If weight isn't an issue, apply some technology
to the problem. Rig up a harness and wire a set of batteries in
parallel to keep the load down on each. It will really
At 06:12 PM 8/25/2004 +0200, Bob Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Ilford will end film production completely (today)
>
That's amazing. 2 years ago I would have bet heavily
against digital progressing as rapidly as it has. If
Ilford, which is pretty much a specialty manufacturer
selling to commit
At 10:23 PM 8/25/2004 +0200, you wrote:
Thanks to Tom P. I'm proud owner of EF 22-55mm USM.
I think you'll like it. Despite being kinda slow, it weighs almost nothing
and it's pretty sharp stopped down. It's the "normal" lens I use on my D60.
Are there any known vigneting problems useing regular
At 04:09 AM 8/22/2004 +0200, you wrote:
There is a FireWire standard called 1394b which allows transfer speed up to
800Mbps. Is there a CF card reader that can handle this speed, or will any
FireWire CF reader automatically support this transfer rate?
(chuckling...) The bottleneck isn't the 1394 in
At 04:58 AM 8/20/2004 +0200, you wrote:
- -5 fps
- -.2 second startup (startup lag is my biggest
complaint about the 10d)
- -1 stop better low light AF
- -ETTL II
- -lower noise (1600 on 20d = 400 on 10d)
- -smaller, lighter
- -cross-type AF sensor works with f5.6 lenses, more
accurate with 2.8 len
At 04:58 AM 8/20/2004 +0200, you wrote:
At 05:37 PM 8/19/2004, you wrote:
>Hopefully it will still use BP511 and compact flash...
It does. Have you looked through the dpreview preview?
NOW I have... what is great is we now have the option of using AA cells to
power the camera with that grip! I wo
At 02:23 AM 8/20/2004 +0200, you wrote:
From: "Michael Good" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EOS 20D Info from Canon (Japan)
If you want the info straight from the horses mouth than talk to the
horse :-) (ok see their 5fps sequence to get that joke).
http://www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/eos20d/
A *new* bat
At 04:44 AM 8/19/2004 +0200, you wrote:
PS: do page/site 'grabbers' exist that also download the larger
&linked pictures?
And keep them linked when viewed on a local disk?
Any favorites?
Adobe Acrobat (the full version, not the Reader) does this, but the result
is a .pdf (portable document format)
At 04:44 AM 8/19/2004 +0200, you wrote:
Hmm, now I'm wondering where this fits. The specs
seem better than the 10d, but compating these photos
to my 10d I notice:
Only 2 buttons at the top right (rear), instead of 3
on the 10d. Looks like the focus point button is
missing.
Seems like this would l
At 01:21 AM 8/11/2004 +0200, you wrote:
f44? That's your problem. Each f-stop cuts lens resolution in half.
It doesn't really matter until f/11 or so with current digital cameras,
but past that you'll start losing sharpness. Try f/8 or f/11 instead
of f/44 and you should see a sharper picture.
D
At 07:31 PM 8/10/2004 +0200, you wrote:
I have the EOS 300D, which has no mirror lock up (without resorting to
hacked russian source code). My longest lens is the 100-400L. If I
take a picture through the lens on my tripod at a slow shutter speed
(with IS off) it always comes out blurry. I tried
At 03:55 AM 7/30/2004 +0200, you wrote:
PS: don't forget that a large amount of Contax users will originate
from the old days, where 'Zeiss' was still the only thing worthwile,
apart from Leicait's probably just as much a generation-shift
than a technology-shift.
I suspect the vast majority of
At 12:48 AM 7/29/2004 +0200, you wrote:
No, Tokina's webpage lists both a new 28-70 and a 28-80. The latter is
a Pro lens which is real nice but high priced, with LD glass etc. The
former is lighter and cheaper. PhotoDo only rates the older f2.6-f2.8
28-70 at 3.1, so no real comparisons there.
The
At 12:31 AM 7/28/2004 +0200, you wrote:
It's bad because the resale value of our purchases also declines very rapidly.
For those of us that like to stay a step or 2 behind the state of the art
and buy used, it rocks! ;-)
If you think you feel bad, look at how the price of manual focus Nikon film
At 12:22 AM 7/16/2004 +0200, you wrote:
Unless of course Canon decides that this is yet *another* good reason
to launch a pellicle-mirror DSLR, without moving mirror.
(my personal favorite argument is maximum silence, in particular when
shutter recocking is delayed until finger is lifted from the r
At 09:17 AM 6/20/2004 +0200, you wrote:
On Saturday June 19 2004 12:17 pm, Karen Nakamura wrote:
[snip]
> There's no proof, but I think Canon is doing it out of spite.
I don't think Canon nor Nikon really give a flip about Sigma, and justifiably
so.
Fred
I'd pay more for a D60 than a 10D If I *had*
At 12:03 AM 6/22/2004 +0200, you wrote:
Yup, has anyone actually seen a used Sigma for sale?
Quite a few of the zooms, and most of the prime 3rd party EOS lenses for
sale on KEH.com are Sigmas.
I like the 135-400 f4.5-5.6 and 170-500 f5-6.3 (bought used), those get
used quite often and have prov
At 04:22 AM 5/21/2004 +0200, you wrote:
I'm considering buying a secondhand D30 to give digital SLRs a try,
and after reading lots of info I'm aware that many users have
complained about its AF.
It's fine as long as you're outside during the day, I find.
Since I own an EOS 5 (A2E in the States), I
At 12:11 AM 3/24/2004 +0100, you wrote:
Not an answer to your question, just one of my own. I was told, when I
wanted to get a 380EX for my D30, that it wouldn't work, only the 420 and
550 EX flashes would work, fully, on the Canon EOS digitals.
I have had no problems with a 380EX on my D30, the t
At 08:25 PM 2/12/2004 +0100, you wrote:
I'd expect it to use the same system as the A1, which moves the sensor using
piezoelectric elements. See http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/minoltadimagea1/
(the video of the sensor movement is particularly interesting).
Would it not be cool to have an architec
At 08:25 PM 2/12/2004 +0100, you wrote:
Long term, this will probably replace most in-lens IS, at least for digicams.
I doubt we'll ever see this for film; it would be much harder to
implement, and
it's too late in the game for film.
Never say never... Kyocera (Contax) made an SLR that autofocused
At 03:24 PM 12/3/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> That's what $200 3MP point and shoot digitals are
> for!
For the video clips, maybe. But a P&S isn't a
substitute for a 10d / 1d when it comes to, say, macro
shooting. But a flip/swivel LCD with the ability to
preview the image would be a big plus in thos
At 03:24 PM 12/3/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Btw, did anyone notice that the latest version of Minolta's digicam
(DiMage 7hi) with fixed 28-200mm equivalent) now also comes with a
mechanical IS-systemhowever not stabilizing a lens element, but
the CCD itself?
The latest upper-line Dimage is the A1,
At 10:59 PM 11/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
So, is $1200-1500 worth an upgrade from film to digital?
You could just as well buy a used D30 or D60 and spend quite a bit less
than that... D30 prices seem to have settled down in the $500-600 range (I
got a nice one for $400) and D60's hover around a li
At 10:59 PM 11/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
I was wondering about experiences from people who have used both the 10D
and 300D. What, if anything, are you missing on the 300D?
The main thing I miss is being able to set the focusing mode independently
of the metering mode. If you want to select AI Ser
At 03:22 PM 11/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> What's the wisdom of the list say: Do those of you
> with some lense zooming one way and some zooming the
> other have any issues with it?
Drives me bonkers when I switch lenses and have to turn "the other way" to
zoom, but I am getting used to it.
Hah! O
At 06:52 AM 9/30/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Yeah, but the digital Rebel won't be 2-3 years old in 6 months.
Nikon hasn't answered the Digital Rebel in the marketplace yet. I think the
competition at the low end will be ferocious, as that is how the
manufacturers get people into their lens lines. I th
At 03:23 AM 9/28/2003 +0200, you wrote:
The most interesting thing to me is that, among Canon
shooters, I think there were far more people shooting
digital than film. I think more than half of the EOS
cameras around me everywhere I shot were 10Ds! Saw
several 1Ds (not sure if they were 1Ds or jus
At 03:23 AM 9/28/2003 +0200, you wrote:
I'll betcha your best lens you won't be able to buy one in 6 months for
$500. That works, anyway.
Have you checked D30 and D60 prices lately? I thought the pro film bodies
were depreciating fast, but the price drops have been ridiculous here.
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At 12:17 AM 9/4/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 05:53:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bob Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New film EOS 3000V
- --- Hugo Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Maybe this is old news but since no one posted it,
> here goes the link with
> the ne
At 02:16 PM 8/22/2003 +0200, you wrote:
The EF-S leses do NOT fit the D30/D60/10D - currently the only camera that
will accept EF-S lenses is the 300D. From what I have read the lenses will
not physically mount on anything else - the 300D has a white dot on the
lens mount to which EF-S lenses are
At 02:16 PM 8/22/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Please correct me if I'm wrong. IIRC, the smaller the coverage of a lens the
greater the possible resolution. Remember the Disc cameras from Kodak?
Fitted with a plastic moulded single element (aspheric?) lens capable of
over 100 lppm. Also, Rodenstock and Sc
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