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Sigma 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM
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Review Date: Nov 10, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $499.99
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Pleasing bokeh, sharp, excellent contrast, HSM is pretty fast
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Cons:
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Mine required a small AF fine tuning on D300
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Simply the best autofocus 50mm out there today. Twice the size of typical 50mm lenses but it balances well on heavier Nikon bodies. Mine required +5 dialed in with the AF-tuning but after that it was spot on. The sharpest autofocus 50mm I've used to date. Autofocus is silent. Build quality is excellent.
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Nikon 18-70 f/3.5-4.5G AFS DX
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Review Date: Oct 2, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $170.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Image quality, focus speed, perfect size for travel
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Cons:
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Zoom ring is covered when hood reversed
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Skeptic turned believer
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Nikon D700
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Review Date: Aug 12, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $2,995.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Image quality, low light AF, handling/ergs, build quality, LCD, sensor cleaning, exposure/WB accuracy for most situations pretty good, customization of controls/menus
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Cons:
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Would have been nice if they offered a free version of Capture NX1.X or free upgrade to NX2 from NX
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Manual focus of my AIS Nikkors has been a pleasure with the D700. The lack of a slower wide-to-tele f/4 VR zoom lens to accompany the D700 is my only wish, something like an updated 24-120 VR or new 24-105 f/4 VR. I haven't found any significant departures in exposure and AF-speed/acquisition in comparison to my prior experience with the D3 or D300. With the great lens options for DX format users I think the main advantages in the D700 are brighter viewfinder, 1-2 stop cleaner ISOs at the high end, more robust thumb-wheel selector and a form factor in between D3 and D300.
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