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#114055 - 27/07/05 05:39 PM Re: Deer Valley July 23-24
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Nice Matt!

You must have spent a bit of time cloning out the license plates!

My personal favorite:

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#114056 - 28/07/05 12:26 PM Re: Deer Valley July 23-24
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Thanks Dean, that was shot with Gary's 28-135 lens (thanks again for letting me try it out Gary).

As for cloning out the plates, I don't know if it makes any difference to people, but it takes about 5s per shot so no big deal.

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#114057 - 28/07/05 06:35 PM Re: Deer Valley July 23-24
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Originally posted by slomatt:
Thanks Dean, that was shot with Gary's 28-135 lens...
- Matt
Nice pics Matt. The 28-135 is a good lens. I almost went for that one but decided on the Sigma 24-70 instead.

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#114058 - 29/07/05 11:28 AM Re: Deer Valley July 23-24
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How do you like the Sigma? I found a really good deal on the Canon 17-40L lens and ordered one last week, but it's on backorder and doesn't ship until Aug 8th. I wanted something that went at least as wide as the stock 18-55, but now am thinking I might want to also get something that will cover the 40-120(ish) range.

- Matt

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#114059 - 29/07/05 02:16 PM Re: Deer Valley July 23-24
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Matt, the Sigma is a good lens, a little soft at f2.8 but stopping down a little and it's great. Focus is fast too plus 1/4 the cost of the Canon 24-70L eek

The 17-40L is an awesome lens, wish I have the money. You didn't order it at Dell did you? They have the sale last week. wink

The 28-135 fit your range but I'm sure once you put on the 17-40L you won't go to this lens anymore laugh . Also check out the Tamron 24-135mm.

I'm thinking of the 70-200 F4 next... need second job laugh

Some pic of the Sigma



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#114060 - 01/08/05 11:31 AM Re: Deer Valley July 23-24
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Sonny,

Nice pictures! I especially like the second one.

I did get the lens from Dell during their sale last week, it's backordered and supposedly ships on the 8th. The also had the 70-200 f4 on sale for ~$500. I was trying to decided between the two and ultimately concluded that the 17-40 would get a lot more use since with a 1.6x crop factor the 70-200 provides A LOT of zoom and is fairly limiting in terms of field of view.

Now I'm somewhat questioning if I need a top level lens like the 17-40, but I figure I'll try it out and can always return it if I don't see enough of a quality increase over my stock lens to make it financially worthwhile.

Thanks again for the pictures.

- Matt

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