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Canon EOS 300D/10D Lens Review
Continuing the lens theme this morning, Bob Atkins has written an article aimed at new owners of the Canon EOS 300D and 10D DSLRs. The catchily-named “A review of lenses for the Canon EOS 300D and EOS 10D Digital SLRs” does exactly what it says on the tin.
“This review is for the new users. The assumption is that they don’t want to spend $7000 on an EF 600/4L IS USM, and indeed they probably don’t even want to spend $1150 on an EF 300/4L IS USM. I’ve chosen a series of lenses which the new user might be most interested in. These are mostly zooms and mostly priced in the $200-$400 range. I’ve avoided recommending most of the low end, plastic mount, inexpensive lenses normally sold with Rebel series bodies because, quite frankly, they aren’t all that good.”
Website: Photo.net: Canon EOS 300D/10D Lens Review
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#1 sean
This is good advice for any Canon owner. I recently purchased the 50mm f1.8 for £80. I have put one roll of film through it and was immediately impressed with the sharpness of this lens. I took some comparison shots with my bog standard 28-80mm and could see a difference in my scanned images. Plus you get an extra 3 stops, which is useful.
Mark, how do you find the 70-200 F4 L against the 75-300mm standard zoom? Have you taken any like for like pictures and compared the results?
5:41 pm - Thursday, August 28, 2003
#2 Mark Goldstein
Sean, I've never actually owned the Canon 75-300mm USM zoom lens. I used to have the Tamron 70-300mm f/3.5-5.6 lens which you can pick-up nowadays for around £100-£125. Obviously the Canon 70-200mm f/4 L is a big step-up from the Tamron
It's quieter, faster-focusing and a lot, lot sharper - by far my favourite lens.
So I currently own the Canon 20-35mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, Canon 50mm f/1.8, Canon 70-200mm f/4 L and Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro. There's a bit of a gap between 35mm and 70mm which is sort of covered by the 50mm lens. I'm about to put my standard Canon 28-80mm lens on Ebay as it doesn't stand-up to any of my other lenses.
5:55 pm - Thursday, August 28, 2003
#3 sean
You are very lucky not to have owned the Canon 75-300
I now realise how important decent lenses are. I am planning to purchase some better quality, new (or 2nd hand) lenses. The 28-135mm seems like a good investment, as does the 70-200 F4L.
6:01 pm - Thursday, August 28, 2003
#4 Mark Goldstein
I managed to get the 70-200mm f/4 L lens for £450 2nd-hand, which is a pretty good price, especially when you consider that the Canon 75-300 USM IS lens is around £350-400 new.
I quite like the look of the new Tamron 28-75 DI lens - that would fill the gap in my focal range - but it's only just been released and there aren't too many reviews around at the moment. This would equate to 45mm-120mm on the EOS 10D and 300D.
6:09 pm - Thursday, August 28, 2003
#5 simitel
Just looking for suggestions!
1:15 am - Tuesday, November 18, 2003
#6 Ian Aitchison
I concur with all of the praiseworthy comments about the EOS 300D, but as a computer 'dummy' I find the software very complicated and the instructions obtuse to say the least.
Can anybody advise me of any publication that is an EOS (software) for 'dummies'?
Why on earth is it deemed to be a good idea to be necessary to go online to be able to download images to a computer?
My talent is sufficient to cope with the system for the Nikon Coolpix 990 where, when the camera is connected, the page opens from the Desktop and the images download in thumbnail which can then be placed anywhere using 'click and drop.
4:04 pm - Monday, May 10, 2004
#7 Mark Goldstein
If i was you Ian I'd buy a card-reader and use that to download your images onto a computer. That's what I do with my Canon EOS 10D - it's quicker and more convenient. Compact Flash card readers can be bought for under £10 now.
9:58 am - Tuesday, May 11, 2004
#8 Michael
I am researching a wide ange lens for my canon 300d camera. My previous camera was Minolta SLR camera and I have struggled with a dark wide angle lens I had. I am between canon 17-40/f4L, canon 16-35/f2.8-4/L and sigma 16-35/f2.8-4. Are there any thoughts in this matter?
5:52 pm - Wednesday, January 5, 2005
#9 Mark Goldstein
I use the Canon 17-40mm with my 10D, which has the same focal factor as the 300D. Works out to be 28-65mm, which isn't exactly that wide-angle, but still
5:56 pm - Wednesday, January 5, 2005
#10 Michael
canon 17-40 suppose to be a sharp lens. do you have any issues using it in far from perfect light condition with f/4?
6:00 pm - Wednesday, January 5, 2005
#11 Mark Goldstein
I don't tend to use it much in those conditions to be honest. When I do, setting it to the widest focal length, bracing myself against a wall or something similar, and breathing in seems to help!
6:11 pm - Wednesday, January 5, 2005
#12 Caroline Gould
I have a Canon 10D & am looking for a decent lens for wildlife photography (whale watching in particular). My ideal would be a Canon 500mm but cannot afford Canon prices.
Would a Sigma EF 50-500mm f4-6.3 EX APO be suitable or can you recommend anything else?
4:34 pm - Wednesday, January 12, 2005
#13 Mark Goldstein
Do Sigma sell a 500mm prime lens? That might be a better alternative to the Canon 500mm prime...
12:44 pm - Thursday, January 13, 2005
#14 Ed Garrard
No actually they don't. The 300-800mm zoom might be the closest. That being said, most of the people who have the 50-500mm Sigma seem to love it and claim that it takes sharp pictures. One of the photo magazines (PopPhoto I believe) did a comparison of different long lens alternatives and recommended the Sigma 80-400mm OS lens with their 1.4x teleconvertor. It was nearly as sharp as the 300-800mm, much lighter and more versatile.
5:50 pm - Thursday, January 13, 2005