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Last Review Posted by AmitKon - posted: Sat November 29, 2008 3:19am

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I used to have that lens, it was a great sharp (8 from 10) , light and great colors . What i didn't like was the construction of the lens, i had it 3+ years and across the time i saw dust inside the glass (what i didnt see in Nikon lens 80-200). Rating: 7

Product Details: "SP AF28-75mm F/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF)" by CamelFriend - posted: Sun July 29, 2007 - Rating: 7.00

Last Review Posted by mike mason - posted: Mon November 17, 2008 11:31am

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I had this lens for a little over 4 years, I has been always in well padded case but failed in that the body fell apart. This is not my first Tamron lens as in my studio I have 11 total and never had any problems before. So I send the lens to the repair center under the six year warranty and was told that they would not cover it as it was shock damage and was not cover. no place on the warranty is the word shock damge writtren, only impact damage. they told me that it was a very clean lens and they could not find any inpact point so that it had to be shock. The six year warranty is garbage and the build of the lens is poor do not buy it!!!!!!!!!!:eek: Rating: 3

Product Details: "AF28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di" by CamelFriend - posted: Thu August 2, 2007 - Rating: 5.00

Last Review Posted by wayne_i - posted: Tue November 11, 2008 11:47pm

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I bought the 40D as a backup to my 5D, and more importantly, I needed some additional reach and the 40D cost less than a new (longer) lens! I have been using the 40D as a walk around camera when hiking/walking my dog (and shooting birds and other wildlife). The 1.6x crop factor helps in providing tighter framing of my subjects, and the smaller size (just a little, but enough to make a difference) helps too. Used mostly with the 70-300 is usm or the 70-200 f4L, I find the AF to be almost as good as the 5D (the 5D focus assist sensors help with BIF shots). Since I did not get the 'kit' lens, I have teamed the 40D with an old Sigma 24-135 f2.8-4.5 lens (larger, but lighter than my 24-105L that I have on the 5D). I use the 5D when I need wider angles (like for city walks). The larger LCD plus the ability to 'see' the images outside (the 5D LCD is not great outdoors, and the images tend to be washed out) is a big plus. The more detailed information on the image view is also useful. The biggest down side is the relatively heavy weight and the smaller viewfinder. The 40D offers excellent performance and high IQ at an affordable price. Wayne Rating: 9

Product Details: "Canon EOS 40D" by PhotoCamel - posted: Sat September 8, 2007 - Rating: 8.21

Last Review Posted by wayne_i - posted: Tue November 11, 2008 11:28pm

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I bought the 5D with the 24-105mm f4L IS USM lens for what I thought was a pretty good price ($2200 new). So far, it has exceeded my expectations. I am not a 'machine gun' photographer (prefer to compose and shoot like film), so the relatively slow fps rate does not bother me. The shallow DOF available with a FF camera is wonderful for close ups of flowers and for portraits. Low light/high iso noise is well controlled and the large sensor site area really helps avoid over processing. The only draw back is the non-weather sealed construction and the lack of affordable (and light) Canon lenses above 300mm (wildlife and birds in flight are other subjects I shoot). However, since I kept my Olympus E-3, I can cover those two with the 2x crop factor 4/3 lenses and the weather sealed body. For most, the 5D offers an excellent entry into FF photography at a very attractive price point (until supplies run out). Wayne Rating: 9

Product Details: "EOS 5D" by PhotoCamel - posted: Sat May 5, 2007 - Rating: 8.78

Last Review Posted by MyPerspective - posted: Thu November 6, 2008 3:14pm

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OK, I'm going to be frank. I would love to own a D700. But one-of my main reasons for getting a D300 is the fact that for a portrait / on-location portrait photographer, the xx-70mm f/2.8 lens is ideal! The smaller sensor's crop-factor yields a 1.5x magnification that you don't have with a D700! Therefore, for focal lengths that I use most, the 1.5x magnification factor is a very good thing! Something that I wouldn't have with a D700! Therefore, the xx-70mm f/2.8 lens is actually better-suited for a D300 than a D700! And the 1.5x magnification on a 70-200mm f/2.8 becomes ideal for sports, as the 70-200mm lens becomes 105-300mm, which is ideal for sports! The same is true of any camera with a sensor that is smaller-than 35mm. You end up with a magnification-factor, that allows you the privilege of getting the focal-length you need out've a smaller lens. (You don't have to lug-around big heavy lenses like you would with a 35mm or larger camera. That's what I love about the focal-length of the 28-70mm lens, it's my favorite lens on a D300!!!) So there are (these) IMPORTANT ADVANTAGES to the D300's smaller sensor! I get VERY UPSET when I read negative comments about the D200, D300, D700, Canon 5D, or similar-sized and weight of cameras. I absolutely LOVE this size and weight-of camera! I wouldn't change a thing! This camera's size and weight is just what I want and love! It's perfect! It feels GREAT in your hands! EVERYTHING is so well thought-out and designed! It just such a NICE CAMERA! I cannot say this about other brands .... but that's WHY I CHOSE A NIKON! Its just so well built! EASY, so EASY to use! Too complicated? Says who? Someone who gets used to a Nikon, is used to Nikon's features. Someone who uses a Canon, is used to Canon's features. Picture-quality? VERY, VERY GOOD! FOR THIS LEVEL-OF CAMERA; OUTSTANDING PICTURE-QUALITY! I do recommend shooting in NEF RAW, using Nikon's CaptureNX RAW-image converter rather-than Adobe as Adobe just doesn't have as good-of noise-reduction, and doesn't have the dynamic range capabilities, nor the ability of backing out of a decision like CaptureNX does. LiveView? Sure its got LiveView. However, unlike cheaper cameras with mirror viewfinders, this camera has a true pentaprism optical viewfinder. Therefore, the viewfinder is much brighter and sharper than your naked eyesight! So who needs or wants LiveView when you've got this level-of optical viewfinder? None the less, for those who cannot live without LiveView, sure, its got Live??View. And a BRIGHT 3" display that can be seen equally-well and distortion-free from all viewing angles. The ONLY design flaw that irritates me is that you cannot set the 2-second timer together with exposure-bracketing. This means that you've got to use a cable-release when taking mutiple-exposure HDR images. This isn't really a problem, just that it would've been nice to use the timer when doing multiple-exposure-bracketing. Noise? Well, acceptable. Not too bad. Its really a very low-noise camera. But if you zoom-in and look for digital nose, its there. But not at normal picture-sizes. I'm attaching an image taken at ISO 6400. It definitely isn't one-of my sharpest images as I've got MUCH MUCH SHARPER ones than this! Even at ISO 6400, which is the maximum ISO of this camera, it takes no back-seat or seconmd-fiddle position. At least not in this level-of camera! So this is the extreme ISO limit for this camera. None the less, I am sufficiently satisfied with the ISO 6400 limits and picture-quality. (see the attached images taken at ISO 6400. Shutter-speed of 1/500s, f/5.6 at 200mm using the not-so great 18-200mm kit lens). Note that the 18-200mm kit lens is a very convenient all-in-one lens. The ONLY good thing that I can say about *ANY* all-in-one zooms is that they are convenient. So this 18-200mm is convenient, and has very good image stabilization. IF you ZOOM-IN on an image on your computer taken with this camera, you'll be very disappointed as the clarity goes to blur! However, the lack-of clarity isn't the camera, but the limitations-of the kit lens that's blurring the image. Getting a HIGH-DOLLAR lens will reveal the true CAPABILITIES of this camera! With a REALLY GOOD LENS, image-quality, even at wall-sized-prints are IMPRESSIVE! I am attching a picture taken with the kit-lens, so it is pretty much average-camera image quality, and definitely not what the D300 is really capable of producing. **WITH A GOOD LENS, you'd be surprised what this camera is capable of! The attached image was taken with the 18-200mm kit-lens at 200mm. And at this size-of picture -at- ISO 6400-! looks quite good-! Especially for ISO 6400! Agree? Rating: 10

Product Details: "D300" by PhotoCamel - posted: Mon November 26, 2007 - Rating: 9.50

Last Review Posted by HuBBaTheMan - posted: Sun November 2, 2008 1:47pm

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Well this wont be a technical review, but rather a hands on "what i use this for" kind of review. I purchased it about a week ago as a upgrade and companion to my existing 40D. Now i know a lot of you will shout "but why upgrade!" but there are a few points that made me decide to do that upgrade. First off the resolution. The 15MP files does work better for me than the 10MP as it gives me more detail and margin of error when shooting. And that brings us to the second reason, the microadjustment autofocus. With the 40D and my 70-200 F4L i constantly got front focus but so far the 50D have been spot on. And if i ever need it, i can adjust the 50D's autofocus slightly. All in all, i needed a 2nd camera and didn't want to wait for the 5D mk2 so i got the 50D. Now to my first week with it. I got it on friday and after just checking that everythign worked i started off with a product shoot on saturday. Now it would have been a bit daft to take only the 50D on a client assignment but since i had my 40D as backup i felt pretty secure that it would be fine. Luckily the Breezesys guy had just released a beta version of the DSLR Remote software which supported 50D tethering so i could shoot with my normal workflow. Initially i had a few odd quirks where the camera lost connection with the laptop and refused to shut down because it wanted to save images that had already been saved. After removing the battery and so it worked again. After that it worked flawlessly. Here are a few shots from that: http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0129.jpg http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0248.jpg http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0261.jpg All in all i shot about 80 different products and it worked well throughout. All shots were ofcourse set up with the Live view and usually fired remotely with the DSLR Remote software. The next day i had a fashion shoot to do. This time it would be a bit more of a challenge as i would be shooting tethered and handheld. The tethering worked very well but i did notice some weird lighting behaviour. It seems it toned down one side of the sensor for some odd reason and first i thought "hey i have just lit the background unevenly" but after checking it a bit more i just couldnt' find how. And even when i went in for a closeup (thus not really showing the background) the fading was still there. I didn't resolve that during the shoot but instead used the back display to show the model and designer how the images were going to look. Here are one frame from this shoot: http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0339.jpg and the same frame with some color & contrast fixed (aswell as a small sore she had on her nose) http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0339-2.jpg I was very impressed with the quality of the resulting images and they felt much more sharper and detailed than my 40D ever could produce. This i personally think is more due to the fact that my 40D was probably not properly calibrated with the 70-200 F4L lens. Still, the results are what counts and these blew me away. Two days later i had a shoot again, this time with some corporate portraits. Same weird shading side reared its ugly head and now the lighting was ofcourse completely different so i resorted to use the rear display again. I did notice that the viewing angle of the read lcd is MUCH improved now. I can't show any frames from this shoot however since they are not released yet =) On wednesday it was time for a product shoot again. Also for a webshop (different one this time and it was jewelry time. Very expensive jewelry. The shoot worked fine and allthough i did see the shaded banding on one side of the sensor, i shot more towards the middle knowing that the crop wouldn't be a problem and the end image was going for web anyway. This did concern me though a lot and i did try to find info on the net if anyone else have had this issue but i guess the camera was just too new. Here are a few shots from this session (cropped though so the banding isn't evident) : http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0560.jpg http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0563.jpg http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0565.jpg Well this banding issue was a great concern to me and i did consider returning the camera for a checkup and using my 40D instead for the following shoot. The day after the product shoot i was supposed to do a full day shooting assignment for the same webshop doing fashion inspirational images. But by a coincidence i remembered i had actually turned on the peripheral luminance compensation when i first got the camera. So i got curious to see if that could have been the culprit. Since the shading occured regardless of zoom level and in the same spot i thought it logical that it would have been related to the camera and not the lighting. So the night before the big shoot i switched it off and did a few test shots and the shading was gone. So i decided to use it. Well the shoot went very well and i had to deal with a lot of fairly complex lighting situations and focusing in dim lightingcondition. But the 50D worked throughout all of this and no banding in sight! The lcd display was also very very useful when showing on location the results. The viewing angle let the everyone view the image easilly regardless of where they were viewing from. A small feature which turned out to be very useful indeed. Here are a few shots from that day: http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0636.jpg http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0699.jpg http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_0759.jpg http://imaginara.se/50Dreview/_MG_1045.jpg All in all the 50D worked just like it should with the only exception being the weird behaviour with the shaded band. I did upgrade the firmware to 1.03 just before the last shoot but i did turn off the peripheral luminance compensation and tested it prior to that. Could i have done all the shots with the 40D? Most likely. The autofocus might have messed a bit though (as i know mine isnt properly calibrated =) but the 40D is an excellent camera in its own. For me the upgrade was worth it and i have actually decided to postpone the 5D purchase a little longer. I really like the quality im getting with the 50D now and am very happy with my upgrade. Hope you enjoyed this very subjective and non-technical little review of my experiences with the 50D during my first week of shooting with it. If the peripheral luminance compensation is an actual bug or not remains to be seen. Rating: 9

Product Details: "EOS 50D" by PhotoCamel - posted: Sat October 25, 2008 - Rating: 5.00

Last Review Posted by alan sh - posted: Mon October 27, 2008 12:22pm

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I have used this lens on a 30D, 40D and now my 50D. It has been excellent and as a single walkabout lens is superb. it is only when you compare the putput (pixel peeping) against a 17-40L that you notice it is soft at the edges and has a bit of CA. But nothing that can't be fixed PP and the IS is worth the difference, especially in low light. I've used it in light rain, it's been bounced around on the back of my motorcycle and it's still going strong (I actually have 2 - one I bought 2 years ago and another which came with my Canon 50D). Rating: 9

Product Details: "EF-S 17-85MM f4-5.6 IS USM" by PhotoCamel - posted: Mon June 25, 2007 - Rating: 8.50

Last Review Posted by Foto Cowboy - posted: Sat October 25, 2008 12:37pm

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I purchased the camera and haven't had it a week. I have had Canon for over 35 years. This is the first camera that to me was/is a problem child. Error 99 lock ups. Wouldnt accept cards less than 4 gig. Locks up during photos. Same card works in all other Canon Cameras but wont in this one. Wont format or acknowledge the card. Wouldnt work with the 580 EX Flash, would with the 430 EX and 430 EXII Uses Batteries. I shot 430 pictures at the game, ( I dont chimp) batteries were gone at the end of the game, 70-200 2.8 lens NON IS. Pros I found out when it was working, Great on focusing at football games in low light. easy to find buttons. When it works works well, but cant be trusted for any important photo shoots at this time. Got a replacement camera today. So far so good, It does sound different than the other one when taking pictures. Hope they get the bugs worked out. IF they want to keep me as a Canon User Rating: 1

Product Details: "EOS 50D" by PhotoCamel - posted: Sat October 25, 2008 - Rating: 5.00

Last Review Posted by Fusion - posted: Thu October 23, 2008 2:11pm

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I am fortunate that I have always be lucky with other market lenses and my copy of this is no exception. I have found the lens to be acceptable sharp at open apeture but stopped down a couple of stip f8 oe f11 and you would have difficulty telling it from a lens costing 3x as much. The image below was taken with this lens stopped down to f11 on a Canon 10D. The lens unfortunately is not suitable to use with FF cameras such as my 1Ds but I have a Sigma 15-30 for that (as you can see I am a sigma supporter). As has be said chromatic abberations do occur but so do they in the camera makers own lens, and all WA lenses that I have used. I bought this lens firstly as a stop gap intending to buy Canon L glas when I could afford it, I have changed my mind now and will be keeping this for a while. I would not hesitate to recommend this lens to photographer like me who have to work within a budget. Rating: 9

Product Details: "10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM" by Worm324 - posted: Tue October 7, 2008 - Rating: 8.67

Last Review Posted by Fusion - posted: Thu October 23, 2008 2:08pm

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I am fortunate that I have always be lucky with other market lenses and my copy of this is no exception. I have found the lens to be acceptable sharp at open apeture but stopped down a couple of stip f8 oe f11 and you would have difficulty telling it from a lens costing 3x as much. The image below was taken with this lens stopped down to f11 on a Canon 10D. The lens unfortunately is not suitable to use with FF cameras such as my 1Ds but I have a Sigma 15-30 for that (as you can see I am a sigma supporter). As has be said chromatic abberations do occur but so do they in the camera makers own lens, and all WA lenses that I have used. I bought this lens firstly as a stop gap intending to buy Canon L glas when I could afford it, I have changed my mind now and will be keeping this for a while. Rating: 9

Product Details: "10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM" by Worm324 - posted: Tue October 7, 2008 - Rating: 8.67

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