i thnk that will be the lens a mate of mine has, ive had it on my 450d a cuple of times and loved it, i love the uwa effect, if only i could afford one i would get a 8.5mm fisheye with a 180degree field of view
i know it's not the same standard, but does anyone have anything to say about the Olympus Tough 6000/8000? i'm thinking about one of them for my birthday. thanks
I must admit I have a lot of respect for Ken's opinion. I've generally agreed with his observations in the past, when he's examined the kit I've owned - even if I was initially reluctant to take his comments on board. Plus he gets extra kudos for his scathing review of the Nikon D3x. He really tore a strip off Nikon for that camera, its feature-set and its price point and he was absolutely right. I've read his review of the lens I've bought and he's given me some good pointers.
I never heard of this camera before, so I went to look it up. It sounds excellent as an all-purpose camera. Good features and the images it turns out look excellent, with very good colours indeed.
Point-and-shoot cameras are a million times better for capturing the moment in social groups than DSLR cameras. They're inconspicuous and you can avoid the awful "heads together, say cheese" snapshot scenario that you get when you pull out a big camera. Not to mention, you don't look like a complete knob with a point-and-shoot. It sounds like it'll take quite a beating and the underwater feature is wicked. If I had extra cash, I think I'd go for this camera to stick in my pocket. Glad you mentioned it, Oli
Well its not really a problem for me, i just cant be bothered to sort it haha. i have a tripod with a spirit level thing on it.
A bunch of the photos were taken on the beach with the tide rising extremely quickly, so i couldnt stop to extend the tripods legs to make it level, so i just had to take the pictures and move again.
Then another bunch were taken sitting ontop of a bunker, which was rather level.
But thank you
And yeah getting up at silly hours is for only the cool people
It wasnt at 3, i just had to leave at 3.
I left at 3 and walked one way, after arriving at one place i realised i couldnt see the sun rising from where i was, so i had to walk the opposite way back past my house. The sun first appeared around 4:30.
It looks like the 6000 should be good enough, honestly. It has a 10mpix sensor compared with the 8000's 12mpix, but unless you're going to be blowing images up to wall poster size you won't notice any difference - certainly not if you're only going to facebook or flickr your pics to share with others. The 6000 has some extra goodies in face detection over the 8000. So it really comes down to the ability to swim to 10ft, which is as deep as I would usually go, or 25ft which is definitely beyond swimming pool depths and will make your ears hurt a LOT. And you can drop the 8000 from 2 metres compared with 1.5 metres with the 6000. My recommendation is to avoid dropping your camera at all
Go with the 6000. It's not going to let you down, and probably will surprise you
thanks it's nice to finally be part of a thread that hasn't caught fire yet! as i always find whenever doing research for anything (usually for a birthday/christmas present), you end up getting put off really easily, e.g. from bad reviews on amazon. it happened when i was looking for a wheel (got DFP in the end), console (got PS3 in the end) and now this. i think you just have to say screw the reviews, as long as they're mostly good, they'll be fine.
anyway, i put both on my birthday list, which i've emailed to my mum and at the bottom it says "bear in mind that i love you xxx", so we'll see how it goes, maybe i'll post a short review on here if anyone's interested.
Tomorrow morning the sun rises (on this height I live), at 3.19 (sets 22.47) and technically there is no night. At 19th (Midsummer) of this month the sun gets up at the most earliest at 3.14 and after that days get shorter and shorter when it gets up later every day. Further up north the sun just stays up and doesn't set.
Thanks, looks promising, especially the refurbished lenses are tempting...must resist.
Tell it like it is! Deep down inside, there really is a community here that cares about each other. You just have to dig a bit to find that out, sometimes
Bring it on! I'm a big fan of consumer reviews based on first-hand experience. I'm also going to be looking for a camera to stick in my pocket and use around friends etc - my DSLR sucks for that, as I mentioned before. I think a decent point-and-shoot is one of the best add-ons you can get for a DSLR.
Very very true this
We are such a caring community that if SamH was about to be killed, i would run all the way there and save him myself.
Just like if i was about to be killed, im sure somebody else would run all the way here and save me.... i hope
lol just been to do tht same exam, i am no official out of compulsery education. so untill i geand aprntihip or college starts im free so hopefully will have time to get creative witht he camera
very good photos by all. wish i could see the sunrise from here but Hampshire valleys are still very pretty bathed in light. shall take some proper photos next camping trip.
I will probably be buying the pentax K100d in the next few months and am very excited!