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Great 2nd Lens

Advantages: Fast Focus, well built, reliable excellent performance all round
Disadvantages: Heavy, you will need a tripod

...and fits on both the Sony a-mount as well as the Konica Minolta mount. Zooming is done through a large in the middle and if you are focusing manually it is through a front ring. Again there is no distance indicator for the focus ring but that is only useful for nerds as you will not be able to focus and measure distance at the same time unless you want to get a tape out to check! The longest zoom is at 300mm. Now bear in mind that digital SLR cameras ...
...the Sony a-100 has a 1.5 crop factor, that means the lens is effectively a longest zoom of 450mm. With that you can take a good picture of a car number plate from about 450 meters away (500 yards in old money). The zoom is fast enough for sports like football where you can take quality shots from all accross the field. It is also very good for the bird watchers out there! I never thought I could enthusiasticly put a a camera on a tripod and use ...

jtamagnini 21.12.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Sony SAL75300 - telephoto zoom lens - 75 mm - 300 mm F/4.5-5.6

Sony SAL16F28 Fisheye Lens.

Advantages: 180* Field of View, Color Correction Filters, Crisp Detail at close shots.
Disadvantages: Only fixable to the Sony DSLR-A100 Camera.

...the camera itself, and the Sony SAL-16F28 is that high quality kind of lense. A superb fisheye lens with a look all its own -- a fascinating perspective on landscapes, cities, crowds and special events. With a 180 degrees angle of view and extraordinary corner-to-corner sharpness, this lens achieves crisp, clear detail from about 8 inches upwards. This lense also includes 4 dial-like filters, that can be used to adjust color correction, and red and ...

Harry_Morris 11.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Sony SAL16F28 - fisheye lens - 16 mm F/2.8

For shooting wildlife..

Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: see review

...by the specifications of the Sigma 18mm-200mm lens. Before I made my final decision I took my camera to my local cameral shop so I could actually try out the lens on my camera. Having satisfied myself that this was the right lens for me, I then shopped around for the lowest price and my local cameral shop agreed to price match! I managed to get my lens for £280. That was a year ago and prices may have come down a bit since then, it’s always worth ...
...zoom lens. The sigma lens is quite heavy to carry around, but then this is a very versatile lens allowing you to take good wide angled and zoom shots with one lens. The diameter is quite large and with so much expensive glass exposed I recommend you use a filter. I recently dropped my camera and the filter smashed. However without the filter it could have been my lens that smashed! I am really pleased with the quality of the wide angled shots this ...

anwar 25.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sigma zoom lens - 18 mm - 200 mm F/3.5-6.3

Ef 50 1.8 II

Advantages: Cheap, great image quality, fast (aperture)
Disadvantages: Bad focus motor. Noisy and slow (focus). Plastic build

This lens is the first prime I ever bought. I was looking at primes because they produce better quality images and are faster than zooms, though less practical. I saw that 130$ lens (brand new!) ... I gave it a shot, saying to myself: -well I'll try this out and if I don't like primes or if this turns out to be a bad lens, i'll loose only 130$. I also believed at the time that 130$ brand new lenses cannot produce quality images. Nikon doesn't have ...
...of my favourite. It doesn't produce image as nice as my 85mm (also reviewed here on ciao), but for the price, it is unbeatable. Apart from beeing extremely fast (compared to zooms anyway), it is SHARP (well it's a prime...) and I also noticed better contrast (at least a more pleasing effect to my eye) in my image (compared to my 17-40L). You can't go wrong with this lens. Even if you have 50mm covered with one or more of your zooms, you have to buy ...

bardall 12.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Canon EF lens - 50 mm F/1.8

Best lens I have

Advantages: Perfect picture quality, fast and silent
Disadvantages: Prime... Zoom and Dezoom with your feet

I bought this lens to do portrait work but then I find myself using it more and more for every kind of pictures, compressed landscape, flower, nature, anything really. The quality of the pictures is just too great to miss. This lens is well balanced on a 40d (it would be on a rebel also). It doesn't feel too big or too small. You have USM focus, which means fast and silent. The size of the focus ring is good, you won't have difficulty using it in ...
...metal and it does not feel cheap at all. I've had it for 1 year and There is no dust at all in the lens. I use this on a 40d, and I usually have to back up a little to take the pictures, it is a little long. I don't mind it though, if you ever buy this lens, you won't mind either and you will work around the fact that this is not a zoom; you won't wnat to miss the quality. ...

bardall 12.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM