Digital over 35mm – any good?

Cheers Damien. I already ordered an extra with the camera – pity, I could have got 3 for that price! They’re now £15. I didn’t even think 7dayshop did that kind of battery – bummer. I have been using that place since 1994-ish. One warning, the compatible inks they sell for the Epson’s are CRAP – half the normal amount of ink, and clog up very easily. I usually bung colorjet in and they are great. ah well.

Don’t know how my last post got in there twice, driver error presumably.

Thanks for info, Snapper. My late Dad bought me the lens so, daft or not, I wouldn’t get rid of it.
Handy, I see they’ve moved as well, just round the corner from my sister.

Sigma was handled by CZ Scientific, but they changed their name to Jenoptic a few years back. Here’s the link: http://www.sigma-imaging-uk.com/

I had two 28-200mm lenses years back, both went nuts on me (everything out of focus) and returned them – both were immediately swapped for brand new ones. Their customer service is second to none in my experience. Optical quality has no complaint either.

In all honesty though, out of warranty repairs are a major expense, and you would do better to bin the lens and buy a new one, or if its not something you want to pay over the odds for, a secondhand one.

Snapper, are Sigma lenses still handled by CZ Scientific?

I’ve got a 75/250 zoom, OM fit which I should have taken back when I bought it, 20 odd years ago. The lens hood moves about under it’s own weight. I only know of one camera repair outfit around here and they want £40 to look at it!

Just replaced my digital with an Olympus C300 zoom. Think I’ll stop now, the next move sounds like a telephone number.

Snapper, are Sigma lenses still handled by CZ Scientific?

I’ve got a 75/250 zoom, OM fit which I should have taken back when I bought it, 20 odd years ago. The lens hood moves about under it’s own weight. I only know of one camera repair outfit around here and they want £40 to look at it!

Just replaced my digital with an Olympus C300 zoom. Think I’ll stop now, the next move sounds like a telephone number.

No Beer this weekend

Bugger. I’m skint too now.

10D, BG-ED3 Grip, extra battery. Next up is 4x 256mb Sandisk CF cards. Thank God I already have the lenses.

(Incidentally, I called Sigma today to check compatibility with my 18-35 and 170-500 – if they aren’t compatible, they will rechip them. This is free if you can show the original sales receipt. There is merely a £5 return postage charge. Now THAT is customer service.)

Damien,
Why did you have to go and show me that?
I’m in enough trouble with SWMBO(shewhomustbeobeyed) and now I may as well go into the garden and dig a hole for myself!!!

Just called into my local Jessops to drool over the Canon 10D – £1499.
Looked at the Nikon D100 as well. Quandary! It is down to £1499 as well – last week they had it in the window for £1699.
Could probably get a 28-105 lens thrown in with the Canon.
Dilemma!!
Just as I thought I’d made my mind up – Confusion!!!

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Where infinity ends is a philosphical argument and somewhat unsuited to this forum.

As I understand it, where it starts is generally clearly indicated (for that lens) on a lens by the depth of field scale. This varies only with the aperture.

Temperature is totally irrelevant.

I am prepared to be corrected

Moggy

Oh Damien, now I’m confused again

“My 50-500 lens which can jog back and forth a lot in low light, was rock solid on the only airborne target I’ve tried it with so far (a Jodel going overhead – crap piccies but nice to see the AF tracking it with such ease in poor light).”

Why would you use autofocus tracking a Jodel?

Unless you were standing on the threshold it was, by definition, at least 500 ft away from you.

Surely this calls for the focus to be locked at infinity? Or am I missing something?

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Oh dear, so much to learn about this digi stuff

Moggy

D10 versus D60

Thanks for the info Damien. It sure looks as if the D10 is my kind of tool. I didn’t know that the D60 was producing darker pics. The reason I was never interested in it, was due to the bad things I was always told, in connection with its autofocus. I am leaving for Barcelona (and later Madrid (it is FIO weekend again)) tomorrow. Going to have a look if I can get it for a low price there.

Anyone interested in a 15 month old Eos-3 with attatched motordrive?

BW Roger

Dwoyle Flarnkin? Is yew a wevernee bor Bob? Tharz a rum ole bitta spartin dooze, thar.

Moggy,
I don’t think it is off topic as such. We all have an interest in aircraft. We all attend airshows. We take photos of aircraft. We need cameras to do that. We post photos we take here. We get them by using a camera. Is it digital or a 35mm? Do you have a preference? Here are some views.

Now if it was about dwile flonking it would be off topic……….:D

I’m not sure we shouldn’t move this thread…

… over to the General Discussion area.

But whilst it’s here I’ve a question to ask of the knowledgeable.

My 5700 has two settings for shutter response, normal and fast. Using ‘fast’ it takes the image far more quickly after pushing the button, in fact almost instantaneously, rather than the dreaded ‘digital lag’

So the question is, what am I gving up by using the fast setting all the time? Surely there must be a downside or there wouldn’t be any point in having the normal setting?

Certainly seems that the ‘fast’ setting is must more suitable for use in shooting warbird pics.

Moggy

Hoping nobody sees through his somewhat transparent attempt to introduce ‘warbird’ content into what would otherwise be a totally off topic thread.

Damien, did you chop in the D-60?

My website…

I’d be very interested to hear how you get on with the 10D, Damien.

A little off-topic perhaps, but how did you find the 50-500 on the D60 (or even the new 10D)? I have the 170-500 and am curious to know how it might perform, particularly as this becomes almost an 800mm lens with the different frame size.

Well, if you go for it, let us know how much better it is than the D60, especially the AF. Bw Roger

Thanks, are you going fior the 10D?

Damien, as I think that my photograph is in the customs teaching books as an example of how a totaly unreliable, disloyal, “not proven but everybody knows” white collar criminal is looking, I’ll think that is a bad idea:D . I’ll think I’ll go for the Spanish variant.

Just a question, gives the Eos 10D the possibility in 300 dpi to fill an A3 centrefold without polarisation? I was advised by somebody of Canon this afternoon that the 1Ds is more or less best fitting for me, but at that price this machine is beyond my current financial situation. How much do you need for a digital to replace slides at A3/300dpi. 6,8,12 million pixels? There is an 8 million pixels coming (high end consumors (not proffesional) in a few months time, at price that is 50% more than the 10D (based on the Eos-3????). Worth waiting for or not. BW Roger

Thanks for the info, which learns me that in the UK the price is “European” also. How is it possible that something relatively “cheap” (it isn’t a house or a car or something like that), can have a price difference of almost 70% when compared to the USA. The same goes for the Canon 1D, in the USA now 3000 USD, and in Holland (after chanching Euros for USD) , something around 5500 usd. How can that be. If I buy a ticket to NY, with a 2 night stay in an hotel (I can get that for around 500 USD), I am still 2500 USD cheaper. Only problem is to pass the Dutch customs (douane), but I can bypass them to take the NY flight via Madrid ( 100 USD) , so I arrive from the USA in Spain (where the Spanish customs isn’t interested in me), and arrive in Holland from Madrid, where as this is a European destination and a Schengen party, I am not checked by the customs. But the question remains: why are the camera’s here 70 % more expensive than in the USA?????????:confused: