Which lens?

mercurial said:
So being in the dark is not a low light situation? Hmmm...
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Where you are is largely irrelevant - its the subject's lighting that is important and a full moon is pretty well lit with plenty of contrast.
 
mercurial said:
So being in the dark is not a low light situation? Hmmm...
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The moon is *not* in the dark. It's in direct sunlight. Yeah, everything around it is dark, and when you take a picture with a small moon in the middle (like I would with, say, may 24-105), then yes, the camera is going to expose like it's a dark scene, giving me loads of noise and a blown out moon.
 
bwana said:
The guy took photos of the moon - that's hardly a low light situation. I've yet to have a focusing issue shooting the moon with either of my sigmas.
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With a 200mm lens, the moon will be marginally bigger than the centre focus block in the viewfinder. To me, that does make it a pretty low light situation. Here, a pic from the Canon 75-300, taken a screen dump from Canon's Zoombrowser, showing the focus block:

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Also, the Sigma 18-200 has more like a 180mm top end, which would make the moon even smaller in the frame.
 
Just an update to you guys so awesomely derailing my thread.... getting the lens tomorrow morning... so will upload some pictures on Wednesday.
 
Well I got the lens, will take a few photos now and play around with it a bit... will update some photos later.
 
froot said:
Well I got the lens, will take a few photos now and play around with it a bit... will update some photos later.
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70 to 200? Enjoy it. It's a fantastic lens!
 
bwana said:
70 to 200? Enjoy it. It's a fantastic lens!
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Yip... will definitely enjoy it, thanks. Ended up paying R6700 for it, so that's really not a bad price (bought it at the same place where I got the camera).
 
looking forward to some pictures and your impressions of the lens.
Congratulations:)
 
I have noticed a very sharp drop in lens prices, particularly the Canon ones. The 18-200 whent from over £600 to under £500 in about a month. The 70-200 f/4L now goes for £440 (on warehouseexpress, which isn't the cheapest, but I use them for a benchmark since they generally have everything) where it was closer to £600 not so long ago.
 
koffiejunkie said:
I have noticed a very sharp drop in lens prices, particularly the Canon ones. The 18-200 whent from over £600 to under £500 in about a month. The 70-200 f/4L now goes for £440 (on warehouseexpress, which isn't the cheapest, but I use them for a benchmark since they generally have everything) where it was closer to £600 not so long ago.
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That's not bad... I know the prices are coming down soon, but my parents are going on holiday this weekend so needed the lens now.
 
froot said:
That's not bad... I know the prices are coming down soon, but my parents are going on holiday this weekend so needed the lens now.
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The price you paid is already not bad. I wish the price on the 24-70mm f/2.8 would come down this far - would be useful for live gigs.
 
koffiejunkie said:
The price you paid is already not bad. I wish the price on the 24-70mm f/2.8 would come down this far - would be useful for live gigs.
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That would be quite nice hey.

Took some photos. Nothing interesting to photograph right now (and it's overcast, so poor light conditions makes everything dull). Will upload just now.
 
froot said:
That would be quite nice hey.
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Even nicer would be a f/2.8 version of the 24-105L IS. Now if they bring that out, and if it's as good as the f/4 one, I'd get a FF body and be done with it. That would be the ultimate all-round lens.
 
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