Reviews about Lenses

donnaolm says "Great Travel Lens" about Nikon - 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX Lens

donnaolm — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:06:32 GMT

We do a lot of traveling and I've found that the Nikon D80 with the 18-200 VR lens are all I need to pack. I love the versitility of the lens combined with the speed of the camera. On all our trips the only time I've needed a lens with more zoom was on a wildlife trek, otherwise the 18-200 meets all my needs. When you are trying to pack light it's helpful not to have to drag along several lens. I love the VR (vibration reduction) feature of this lens. The only complaint I have is when you are taking flash photos with the builting flash on the D80, the length causes a shadow when trying to capture a group photo. Easy enough to crop out if you keep in mind the lower portion of your photo is going to have a shadow when framing the shot....

deja2004 says "The EF 100-400 is simply awesome!" about Canon - EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS USM Lens

deja2004 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:37:48 GMT

What an awesome lens! I have been extremely pleased with the quality and sharpness of the Canon EF 100-400 USM IS. That image stabalizer has allowed me to shoot in lower light situations than with my old lenses. I have wanted this lens since it originally came out and finally purchased it a few months ago. There are only 2 things I can think of that I really don't like about the lens, though. 1. It's heavy. I mean really heavy. Especially after carrying it around all day. Tip: it comes with a lens case. Discard the strap that comes with it and go spend a few bucks on a wider strap that will be more comfortable. 2. Canon really needs to come out with a handle that screws into the lens' tripod mount. It would make it easier to stabalize when carrying a tripod or monopod is not convenient....

noriravi says "Perfect travel lens with very nice zoom range" about Canon - EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS USM Lens

noriravi — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:09:17 GMT

One of the most conterversial lenses offered by Canon. I have owned three copies of this lens over the period of 5 years and each of them performed perfectly. Producing sharp image even wide open. I have test my current copy with the Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 L lens and the two lenses produced images that were similar in sharpness and contrast. I duely sold my 400mm prime lens.

This lens along with the 17-40 and 24-105 complete the entire zoom range required for any normal travel photography with out breaking your back and fits nicely into any medium sized camera bag.
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noriravi says "Great travel lens for hiking and landscape photography" about Canon - EF 24-105 f/4 L IS

noriravi — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:02:40 GMT

A relatively new offering from Canon, the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS lens is a light weight high performance lens that works perfectly for light weight backpacking or hiking. With the built in IS I can get up to 3 stops of extra hand holdability. I have created very sharp images using this lens at 1/6th of a second exposure.

The lens works perfectly as a travel lens for me along with my 17-40 /f4 and 100-400 f/4.5-56 L IS lenses.
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noriravi says "Works very well for landscape photography" about Canon - EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Lens

noriravi — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:53:41 GMT

There is a lot of negative reviews about this lens on the internet. The lens performs very well for what I use it for, namely landscape photography. I have tested this lens against the more expensive offerings from Canon (16-35) and the 17-40 performs very well at f/8 and beyond.

If your primary use of the lens is for landscape photography I can stronly recommed this lens but if you are lookign to shoot wide open with this lens you will be better off with the 16-35.
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noriravi says "One of the best canon lenses for the EOS body" about Canon - TS-E 90mm f/2.8

noriravi — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:31:35 GMT

I hve owned this lens for over 5 years. This is one of the best canon lenses made for the EOS body. I use this for macro work and compressed landscape photography. It is a manual focus lens so works best with full frame camera.

I have used this lens with the 1.6 crop factor cameras but fousing was a pain. The lens is very sharp wide open....

chuckster says "One lens to rule them all" about Tamron - 18 to 200

chuckster — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:34:14 GMT

You can travel with a bag full of lenses, or you can travel with one.

I love photography, but I don't want to be one of those guys who travels with a giant bag of lenses - especially since I do a lot of traveling in exotic locations where your luggage space and carry-on can be a challenge.

For me, the ideal solution has been to trade off a bit of performance for a single lens with an extremely adaptable zoom. Back when I was using film, I had a Tamron that was about 25 to 300 mm, IIRC, but it was build to Minolta. When I switched to a Canon digital, I wanted to build on that and bought a Tamron 18 to 200 zoom.

It's been as versatile as I expected, letting me zoom in on animals in Africa or shot wide cityscapes in China (if you don't mind the smog in the way, of course). It's been very durable, with a few bumps and a fair amount of rain not bothering it. The few times I've flipped to manual focus, it's been easy to use.

The one thing is that compared to separate lenses it is both pretty...

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Cat says "The Holy Grail of Wide Angles? Maybe Not" about Sigma - 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX DG HSM

Cat — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:06:39 GMT

About the Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX Aspherical DG HSM Autofocus Lens
Whew! That's a mouthful. I'm new to camera lens reviews so first let's go through what all of those numbers and letters that look like half an Algebra equation mean. If you're a seasoned camera pro, feel free to skip this section and head straight to the technical specs below.

First, about the brand: Sigma Corporation of America is one of many well-known lens manufacturers for SLR cameras. They also make the Sigma SD10, a Foveon-based chipset digital camera - technology that makes me drool, but isn't mainstream enough for me to adopt just yet. So, Sigma knows cameras, and they know optics. I trust the Sigma brand to deliver a solid performing lens.

12-24mm f/4.5-5.6: The lens is classified as an "ultra wide-angle" lens at 12-24mm. With the 1.6 multiplier the lens is approximately around 19-38mm in standard camera lens terms. The maximum aperture that this lens is capable of is f/4.5 to f/5.6 at 12 to 24mm respectively....

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