A friend picked up a 17mm-55mm f2.8 Nikon the other day.  He examined
two of them and shot some images with a D200.  When he looked at the
images on the screen of the camera, he could clearly see that one of
the lenses was soft or softer.  So obviously, he bought the better

Hi again all
Just started to think about Christmas.  Father Christmas was good to me last
year with a new  Sigma lens  18-125.    This year I'm thinking of an
external flash for my Canon 350D.    Any suggestions and/or recommendations

Do we have an official release date?

This shot has been brightened considerably.  The original blue part
was highly underexposed.  I noticed that when it was brightened,
instead of just noise, this banded pixel effect showed up.  Notice the
wide vertical banding.  This is some kind of variance in the pixel

Today I woke up and went down town to look for a camera.
its sitting right next to me :).  camera, cable release thingie
and that's all I could get today.
I couldn't get the tripod ($250) or a CF card or the flash so today I will

This quote about dynamic range is not squaring with tests done on the
E-410 or 510.
http://www.olympus-esystem.com/dea/special/passion/episode9_01.html
At the same time, we boosted processing speed and reduced power

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129  (bmw commercial at
beginning of video--sorry)

This, from dpreview.
Yet another D300 sensor and A/D converter thread.
What a bunch of misinformation and (yes) idiocy being tossed around.
Thankfully, someone posted a useful link to Sony material that is both

I found a nifty old Nikon lens for $100 which is really impressive.
Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5
Super bokeh, fairly fast fixed aperture zoom, withstands addition of a
closeup lens and even a reversed lens for macro work, presumably even

Hey all,
I have a Digital rebel XT and I am happy with the image quality in all
but very low light conditions. The camera feels a little small though
and the controls are not real easy to handle when the camera is at eye

I am very, very new to digital but have had Nikon film SLR's for
years.
Does anyone have any insight in to how factory authorized service
facilities clean the filters on DSLR's?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0709/07090601sonydslra700.asp
Especially this attribute:
Sony's Dynamic Range Optimizer (DRO) function has been updated on this
model so users can choose the desired level of detail recovered in