On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:10:45 -0600, William Robb wrote > A friend wants a new camera. He is fixated on a Nikon D70 for some > reason. We were at Best Buy looking at the options they have last evening. > Did you know that all Nikon and Canon lenses are made by Panasonic? > Or that pretty much every lens for those brands other than the > supplied kit lenses have built in vibration reduction? Also, lens > based vibration reduction is better than body based because lens > based is using the hardware that God gave us while in body is using > software to remove the shake. Apparently lens based VR doesn't > consume the vast amounts of power that software based VR uses. > > I never knew this stuff. I certainly walked away from the counter a > more educated man. > > William Robb
Some interesting comments to be found in the test of the K10D @ Photozone: "The in-body shake reduction system is surely one of the primary selling points for the camera. Compared to lens-based solutions this system is obviously more cost-neutral on the lens side and its immediately available for most legacy lenses. Besides it eliminates the need to "pollute" the lens system with a "alien" lens group which doesn't contribute anything to the image quality and which may decrease the long term reliability of the lens (as many Canon IS and Nikkor VR lens tests have shown to date).........." John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you have received an email in error please notify Carmel College on [EMAIL PROTECTED] then delete all copies of it from your systems. Although Carmel College scans incoming and outgoing emails and email attachments for viruses we cannot guarantee a communication to be free of all viruses nor accept any responsibility for viruses. Although Carmel College monitors incoming and outgoing emails for inappropriate content, the college cannot be held responsible for the views or expressions of the author. The views expressed may not necessarily be those of Carmel College and Carmel College cannot be held responsible for any loss or injury resulting from the contents of a message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
