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In rec.photo.equipment.35mm Dennis Bradley <dennis@no_spam_please_dbradley.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> "Georges Preddivous" <preddivous@aemail4u.com> wrote in message
> news:11e7f152.0407210227.9eff247@posting.google.com...
> > Mark Spacey <vax2002news@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:<2m2ag8Fi1tecU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> > > ECL wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am looking for a 18-? zoom for my digital nikon. I am currently
> using my
> > > > older Nikon 35-135 zoom but with the conversion factor, it's not wide
> > > > enough. Suggestions??
> > > >
> > > > Can one get the lens that ships with the D70? How is it?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Forget the zoom and buy a sigma ex 20 mm f 1.8
> > > I bought one for my canon 10 d, and it opens up the world of low light
> > > wide angle photography, yes you can buy sharper lenses, but this lens
> > > takes pictures when you super sharp zoom is useless, it has to be tried
> > > in low light to be credited,
> > > given the pictures I would have never taken it was worth double the
> money.
> > > My canon 17-40 could only manage .3 seconds at asa 800 at a indoor
> > > swimming contest where flash is banned, someone offered me a go of his
> > > sigma 20 mm, as a lens snob I agreed.
> > > same shot iso 200, 30 th of a second, got the shot, wow
> > > non of the canon zooms came out,
> > > staight to the shop, and swapped it
> > > now use leg zooming up to 28 mm
> >
> > I agree about the Sigma lenses being superior to the Nikkors or the
> > Canons. Not only do the Sigma lenses have superior optics, but the
> > Nikkor lenses were designed to work for the Nikon film bodies. They do
> > not work as well with the digital SLR bodies. All kinds of metering
> > and focus problems. The OP can avoid all of this nonsense by selling
> > the shitty Nikon DSLR body and buying a Sigma SD10, and some Sigma
> > lenses. Sigma digital cameras contain the highly superior Foveon
> > images sensor which is the only sensor that records images in 3 colour
> > layers like film.
>
> I have Sigma and Nikon lenses which work perfectly well on a Fuji S2 Pro.
> However, I would not touch a Sigma camera with a barge-pole now that Mr
> Preddius or whatever he is calling himself this week has made such silly and
> baseless statements about it. To me that is the mark of a man who has
> bought a lemon and has to save face by justifying it in any way he can.
> Dennis
>
Come on he is not a man, he is dummy with a broken record player for voicebox.
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Sander
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