Zoom Zoom Zoom......

Advantages: Professionally laid out online surveys. Product testing.
Disadvantages: Some awful incentive gifts

...~~ UPDATED FEBRUARY 2006 ~~ I joined up with ZoomPanel through ipoints in December 2003. Quite frankly, I was most unimpressed with them at first. Despite promising the potential to earn rewards and cash through ZoomPoints, the first 10 or 11 surveys they offered me only qualified me for entry into a sweepstake or prize draw. I'm afraid that I very swiftly pull the plug on any survey company only offering entries into prize draws, as in over 2 years of survey work, I have yet to win anything from any survey company prize draw or raffle. I fail to see why I should spend my valuable time completing a survey for which I get little or no reward, when you can bet your bottom dollar the company hosting it is being handsomely rewarded. However, I am most glad that I gave them the benefit of the doubt, as ZoomPanel have proved to be a good...

Bollinger28 13.09.2004 (04.02.2006) · Read review
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Canon's sharpest zoom is a rock, or brick

Advantages: Awesomely sharp. Wide Aperture gives great control. Great colour.
Disadvantages: A little fragile. Would prefer with Image Stabiliser.

...This is the professional photographer's portrait zoom lens of choice. The constant F/2.8 aperture across the zoom range provides excellent performance in low-light, and the best control over depth of field in any zoom lens on the market today. Lens performance is exemplary. If you take the time to use the full time manual focus, pictures of exceptional sharpness can be achieved at any aperture. Some users complain of getting "soft" copies of the lens, but always refer to the excellent and free Canon service of calibration (within warranty). My own lens doesn't suffer from this, I have to say, and I do wonder whether some photographers claim that they're not getting a "sharp copy" when they're not taking the time to focus properly. Commonly referred to as "the brick" amongst Canon users, this lens is noted for its heft. It weighs...

GilesGuthrie 26.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Canon zoom lens - 24 mm - 70 mm F/2.8

Come fly with me on Zoom.

Advantages: Low cost airline with Premium seating available.
Disadvantages: Only fly from a few airports in UK

...********************************** Firstly we were able to choose our seat, you can do this in Economy at a charge of £15 return. The seat pitch was 36ins. instead of 32ins, may be not a lot of difference but it was very roomy, inside passengers can squeeze past, useful if the other person is asleep. The seats were leather and quite comfortable and when tilted back you still had room . Both have a hot meal and a snack served, but Premium also has complimentary alcoholic drinks, and Economy has to pay - £3.00 each drink, plus we were given a bottle of water at the start of the flight. Increased baggage allowance from 20Kg to 30kg, an important factor for us as we were to be away for over 2 weeks and needed evening wear for the cruise. If you are over the allowance there is a charge of £10 per kilo! Zoom carry free of charge baby buggies, wheel chairs etc. Complimentary headsets...

jo145 12.08.2008 · Read review
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Zoom zoom

Advantages: ?
Disadvantages: good light camera

...to take good general photo's I like the facility of a zoom lens to take pictures of things that are a distance away from me or to magnify small items just in front of me .I like to take flower pictures for identification but I did not need or want a professional camera with the facilities to take different lens. My Husband does a lot of insect photography and although my camera can take a pretty fair picture of a butterfly its not quite good enough for him OK so I am going to take a picture switch it on at the top of the camera then compose the picture; hey I have a huge 2.5-inch, TFT colour LCD monitor it takes up most of the back panel. I found this useful at the V festival I wanted to take a picture of the bands and I had a head in front of me I held my camera high and could still see what I was taking a photo of. There is also...

mumsymary 18.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Casio EXILIM ZOOM EX-Z750

The nikon 70-200mm F2.8 VR, top-of-the-line

Advantages: Beautiful bokeh, tack-sharp, vibration reduction, easy to use, many useful accessories
Disadvantages: heavy, expensive, slight vignetting, prone to flaring

...their version, the so-called "vibration reduction", was the 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 ED. An interesting lens to be sure, but Nikon owners really started to get excited at the announcement of the AF-S 70-200 F2.8 VR. This lens, a successor of a highly regarded line of professional lenses, turned out to be spectacular: the image stabila? sorry, the vibration reduction was possibly even more effective than Canon's and the image quality? Well, I am going to discuss that right now! ---Image quality--- The 70-200 VR is a tack-sharp lens, as you would expect of a lens in this price class. It is not even in the same ballpark as normal consumer lenses: the colours are vibrant, the details sharp, and the bokeh (the appearance of parts of the picture that our out of focus) is stunning. The lens is particularly famous for the silky smooth rendering of out...

hetvuurtje 24.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nikon Zoom-Nikkor telephoto zoom lens - 70 mm - 200 mm F/2.8

Sigma EX DG 70-200mm f2.8 HSM Macro

Advantages: Build quality. Finish. Range. Fast maximum aperture.
Disadvantages: Image quality not as good as expected. Chromatic Aberration.

...removed whenever you choose to use the lens hand-held. Being an EX DG lens, it is suitable for use on either FF (Full-Frame) or APS-C cropped sensor cameras when it effectively behaves like a 105-300mm f/2.8 (on Nikon APS-C), 112-320mm f/2.8 (on Canon APS-C) or 119-340mm f/2.8 on Sigma DSLR cameras. These make interesting options on the APS-C size sensor cameras and it can be assumed the camera has a completely different set of values when used with such cameras to those when used on full-frame. Interesting? The fast f/2.8 maximum aperture provides great fun for shallow DOF (depth-of-field) shots where particularly at the 200mm end of the zoom, depth-of-field is excitingly shallow. Whilst the lens is referred to as 'macro' within it's descriptive title, the term is used somewhat loosely. True macro lenses provide genuine 1 to 1 life...

davecham 28.12.2008 · Read review
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The Mama of guitar multi effects!!!

Advantages: fun to use, really nice sounds
Disadvantages: so many things... can be confusing sometimes...

...can fine tune your sound. Each patch has 2 channels, allowing you to have a clean / dirty channel without using 2 slots? that simulates the 2 channels you would get on a real amplifier. I'll include the part about the noisegate in the "sound" bit: Basically this unit is very silent. There are 3 types of noisegates, that are tweakable. You can have a maximum of distortion, a flanger on, and your hands away from your strings, and still you will hear no noise coming out of the amp. OPERATING THE UNIT **************************** I was used to older Zoom / Boss units, and this took very little reading to understand how things were organised. It is very intuitive, and finding what you are looking for is not demanding. Once you'll get used to the unit, you will browse through options, menus without trouble. The LSD screen is good...

monsieur.Joda 10.04.2007 · Read review
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Review of Zoom G9.2tt

The Zoom 707II

Advantages: Cheap, Simple to Use
Disadvantages: Quality of effects aren't great

...The Zoom 707 II is the slightly newer version of the 707. It has everything the 707 has plus the ability to insert a smart media card, which you can use to longer record samples, and/or exchange patches (the name given to the setting of the pedal, i.e. distortion, reverb settings etc...) on the internet. I bought the pedal several years ago when I had just started playing the guitar at a price of around 150 pounds. It comes with the unit itself and instruction manuals. If I remember correctly I had to purchase the power unit myself, but this was only around 5 pounds. The pedal can however be powered by 4 AA batteries instead. With 74 different effect ypes I feel this pedal provides more than enough for the beginner guitarist. There is a huge range of things you can do with this little pedal - the guitar signal goes through...

Darkhodge 09.09.2005 (11.09.2005) · Read review
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Review of Zoom GFX-707

Zooming to places other's don't directly

Advantages: Direct Services between London Gatwick and Winnipeg
Disadvantages: Don't exspect too much luxary and pack light!

...I find that airlines fall into 2 catagories, cheap airlines and "Upper" airlines. Zoom Airlines falls in the cheap airlines of which cost comes first before little comfort and luxuary things that you would exspect from the other group which usually costs more. Zoom first of all gets a massive thumbs up for being the only airline (even though its seasonal and runs once a week) that flys DIRECT to Winnipeg airport from London, England. The amount of people that actually travel between Winnipeg and London there should be more airlines flying direct between these two airports and a masive shame on you Air Canada for not doing so (although offer a nice route via Toronto). The age of the aircraft of which I flew on a Boeing 767 was in question to be even made before the turning of the 1990s due to the fact that old movie style seats...

djdeag 03.09.2007 · Read review
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Zoom Panel Paid Surveys...

Advantages: Regular surveys sent, award 10 points for attempting a survey, Marriott vouchers
Disadvantages: Few points per survey making 1000 points a high payout, limited reward scheme

...I joined Zoom Panel mid last year 2008 while I was looking for paid survey sites to try out. I signed up free and started to receive email notifications soon after for new surveys to complete. Zoom Panel sends regular surveys and think I was averaging 3 or 4 a week. You're awarded 'zoom points' for each survey you complete and these can later be redeemed... Unfortunately, their notification emails do not inform how many points you will get or how long the survey will be prior to you taking it. You get about 75 - 100 points per survey and if you do not qualify for a survey, you get 10 Zoom Points for attempting it.. Zoom Panel would be great but they really need to evaluate their reward system... Unless there is another Zoom Panel out there that has a better one - this Zoom Panel has a rather limited reward system that makes it seem...

marina321 15.02.2009 · Read review
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