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Jan
2
(2007)
New Camera Toys
Filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: canon, gadgets, photography.
The Teaching & Learning Centre picked up a new Canon Digital Rebel XTi and 28-135mm USM IS lens, primarily to better photograph events and workshops. I took a quick walk around this side of campus to try it out. Man, do I love the new lens. The XTi is a pretty nice upgrade, too. I’m still really happy with my (now obsolete) XT, but the XTi is nice. The LCD feels HUGE. The 9-point focus is good (although I have my XT set to center focus only, so the extra 8 points would be wasted).
I posted a bunch of my test photos – sets of two, taken at each end of the lenses’ range.
I’ll try to make some time to test out the new rig over the next week or so. And of course, now I need to save up to buy my own 28-135mm USM IS lens. Dayum, that’s nice.
Update: I added a sample of the same shot taken with a 75-300mm EF USM MkII at 300mm for comparison. It’s a bit blurry because that lens is not IS, and I didn’t have a tri- or monopod handy. Hand-holding at 300mm in lowish light is not recommended…
Who’s to say that you don’t need to “check out the lens” on the weekends… ? That could certainly do in a pinch. Just don’t start looking at Utra Wides now… the 10mm-2Xmm stuff might start looking good when you start doing small room work.
I might try checking it out. Still planning on buying my own, though. I picked up a used 75-300mm USM lens today, so that might feed my lens craving for a couple of weeks. It’s too long to be a regular use lens, though, which is why the 28-135 is really nice…
and we’ve got a fast 17-35mm wide angle that would do for awhile, but my kit lens starts out at 18mm…