CuriousMe
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One advantage is that if you already have a SLR film camera, and the assortment of frightfully expensive lenses that go with it, you can use them with your new digital SLR.
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Cathie
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One advantage is that if you already have a SLR film camera, and the assortment of frightfully expensive lenses that go with it, you can use them with your new digital SLR.
Peace,
Cathie
lal7176 once bubbled...
My wife has that camera and man does it take nice pictures. She had a kodak 4.0 before this but she wanted something she could interchange the lens on to take pictures far away. She currently has the stock lens and a lens that goes up to 300mm. It has really nice zoom qualites with the 300 lens and she is now saving up for the adjustable 600mm lens for farther away shots.
I checked into a housing for it but she told me it aint hapeningThere is no way she is about to let me take her pride and joy underwater.
Here are a few distance shots she took with it this past weekend.
lal7176
would the lens you are talking about for your wife is the canon 75-300 IS F 4-5.6 ? that she is using , not a bad general lense,
as for the 600 whose lense are you talking about because those arent cheap the canon 600mm prime is almost 7 grand and i dont think anybody makes a consumer level lense in a zoom with that range
BTW, those pics are pretty good.
scubatooth
Actually, Tamron and Sigma make "inexpensive" 600mm range lenses; although the quality doesn't compare to the Canon lenses. Keep in mind when looking at SLR lenses, if you see an F2.8 (on any lense), you're looking at paying the big bucks! I'd like to get my hands on the 1200mm lens for underwater....I could take the same pictures that Gilligan takes in Hawaii while sitting in my living room up here in the great North!
http://www.photorevue.cz/Sekce7/IMAGES CLANKY/20Canon_-_EF1200mm.jpg
Dryglove
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It is a Quantaray 70-300 1:4-5.6 autofocus zoom lens. Im not to sure which 600mm zoom lense she is looking at but if it costs anywhere near 7 grand she will be doing nothing but looking.
Geez and i thought scuba was a expensive hobby ut:well if you think the 7 + grand for the 600 is bad, dont even look at the 1200 because its 75,000 last time i asked and 6-9 month build time (as its a custom production lens) and for focus the min distance to get a goo shot on that is like 45 feet, and max of about 250 feet unless the lens is set to infinity.
if your wife wants a long range range lense look at the sigma series they have 2 lense that would be more agreeable price wise
sigma 170-500 F5-6.3 ~ $625
Sigma 600 F8 Mirror ~ $400 this is manual focus only
and if your really want to be nice to her sigma's 300-800 f5.6 but the sticker shock of its a 4500 dollar lense
hope this helps
Dan
if your wife wants a long range range lense look at the sigma series they have 2 lense that would be more agreeable price wise
sigma 170-500 F5-6.3 ~ $625
Sigma 600 F8 Mirror ~ $400 this is manual focus only
and if your really want to be nice to her sigma's 300-800 f5.6 but the sticker shock of its a 4500 dollar lense
hope this helps
Dan
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