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And 16-85mm is constant? It is a hugely overrated lens for the price when Sig 17-55 and 17-70 and Tam 17=55 are available for less.

Canon 500mm MkII has four stop IS and is much lighter than Nikon counterpart. In fact 500mm VR is as heavy as new 600mm IS II.

A 7D 18MP downsized to 10MP as 40D will have more resolution and less noise . You can't compare 100% crops of a sensor that 80% more resolution.

The crop is as sharp as I can get with Bigma 50-500 at F8 on the long end without tele-convertor. Perhaps 120-300 is best limited to 1.4x.

I am primarily a wide angle shooter, need an occasional portrait lens for travel with UWA. Difference between 35 and 50mm is few step backwards for portraits, but 35mm on DX is apparently much...

Trying to decided between the two, priorities are in the order listed: 1. Wide open center sharpness 2. AF Speed in low light 3. Bokeh 4. CA and lack of ghosting.

Nikon was decade late to introduce VR to super-teles. Where are Nikon equivalent for: 100-400/4-5.6 300mm F4 IS 400mm F5.6mm - hand holdable BiF lens with blazing fast AF 400mm F4 DO - ...

3200ISO shot on G3 looks impressive, looks as noise-free I can get with 7D which costs and weighs more than twice as much.

I have E620 and ZD 25mm pancake, it is still larger that I like for some situations. Is G3 (smallest m43 body with EVF) with 20mm F1.7 significantly smaller? How is the low-light AF speed...

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Then why did Nikon include VR on 16-35 FX lens which has even wider angle of view? Amazing how far some folks go to defend Nikon, Nikon sensors have such high ISO even 300mm F4 do not need VR,...

If all the problem you had with the Sigma lens was paint peeling off, consider yourself blessed. Recently on an overseas trip, my less than one year old, Canon EF 300 F4L (yes, L for Luxury) had...

Wasn't that 30 years ago, since then EF mount has been unchanged, compare that to 43rds which was platform with active support only for 3 years between 2008-11.

Olympus ditched 43rd users and mislead them of future of the mount. How hard it is form them to upgrade the sensors of E620, E30 or produce 43rd equivalents of 12mm/F2 and 45mm/F1.8 Please do...

I have Olympus FL36R and FL50R, will they work with Panasonic G3 or similar with TTL metering, how about wirless trigger and super FP modes?

Since when does corner sharpness of telephoto lenses worth 10x price?