DSLR 101 2.0

[ebiggs1]

Maybe you will like these better.  I try to please! 

All with my best of class, 1.3 body the EOS 1D Mk IV.  Birders favorite camera!  I love this camera. 

[ebiggs1]

"Question????      How many yards = 300mm?????'

1 yard is equal to .914 menter.

[ebiggs1]

"Canon is surprising me with a few of their moves, I don't think wise....for a classy company wanting to be known as top notch."

What is "surprising" is you still have no concept of the difference between a consummer, a prosummer and a pro level lens.

All the requirements for each are different. Canon does what is best and cheapest for each.

You buy a pro level lens and than try to make it a consummer model.

"... but they are getting pretty shaky in comparison to some of the competition.   If they continue on this road with loyal customers, they won't continue to be seen as a class act, as they have been in the past."

Are you serious?  

BTW, you still read way too many reviews.  IMHO!

[jazzman1]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

"But the kind of distortion you speak of (barrel, pincusion, and others, etc)   I thought were characteristic of a particular lens.  I've read many lens reviews and never read that we could create that type distortion by using poor form..   All the reviews spoke of distortion as a shortcoming of some lens.  I knew the better ones, and the Pro level lens had less, and the cheaper, and entry level lens had more, generally speaking."

What in the world are you saying?  None of this is true, "generally speaking."  Ok, I'm wrong.

"The thing you and Bob failed to mention was the tripod quick release plate, attaching to my lens.   Had you told me that, alot of stuff would have been resolved right there, cause I would've understood what you guys were telling me."

What?  I said that from the beginning.  No uh uh...show me where !!!!!! You looked at the strap and the camera/lens, you are telling me you could not see the only two screw holes it could possibly fit?   The tripod quick release plate never came to mind till yesterday.  I'm slow, so shoot me.  

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[jazzman1]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

"Question????      How many yards = 300mm?????'

1 yard is equal to .914 menter.

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So 1 mm is a little less than a yard, ok.  Thanks. 

Question:    Why do they use "mm" for the American Market, and not ft. and yds????

[jazzman1]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

"Canon is surprising me with a few of their moves, I don't think wise....for a classy company wanting to be known as top notch."

What is "surprising" is you still have no concept of the difference between a consummer, a prosummer and a pro level lens.

All the requirements for each are different. Canon does what is best and cheapest for each.

You buy a pro level lens and than try to make it a consummer model.   You totally lost me here????  How so?????

"... but they are getting pretty shaky in comparison to some of the competition.   If they continue on this road with loyal customers, they won't continue to be seen as a class act, as they have been in the past."

Are you serious?     As you like to say IMHO...yes.  But hey I'm a rookie right.  It is what it is till I learn different.

BTW, you still read way too many reviews.  IMHO!  I know, I know 

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[ebiggs1]

"So 1 mm is a little less than a yard, ok.  Thanks."

No, one mm is a long way shorter than a yard.  It is a fraction of an inch. 1 mm is approx. .04 of an inch.

One yard is .914 of a meter.  So the yard is shorter, not the meter.

BTW, "mm" is millimeter, not meter.

"Question:    Why do they use "mm" for the American Market, and not ft. and yds????"

We use both.

[jazzman1]

BTW, "mm" is millimeter, not meter

Obiwan, you're funny sometimes  .......I know it's "MM", I wondered why you used "meter (LOL)

[jazzman1]

"... but they are getting pretty shaky in comparison to some of the competition.   If they continue on this road with loyal customers, they won't continue to be seen as a class act, as they have been in the past."

Are you serious?

Just to clarify....by "pretty shakey", I mean in how they treat customers, as opposed to some of their competition.  They do charge premium prices, for somethings I feel they could afford to sell cheaper.  They don't give some acc free, as many others do with their products, Canon gear usually cost more also.  They may be right on top of their game, though, feeling they can do this and not hurt their bottom line.  That they won't lose valuble customer base or market share.  They could be right here, I dunno.  But from my vantage point and opinion that kind of thinking can back fire.  I'm not coming from a pro's or businessman's point of view, but as a average consumer.   And I've talked to alot of other consumer's of Canon gear (Am photographer's), and many think the same thing.  My thinking is not limited just to me by a longshot.   You're thinking from a pro's and businessman's point of view.  Many times guys like you lose touch with the thinking of the average consumers, you've been a pro so long.....no offense meant here.

[ebiggs1]

The bottom line is.  Nobody, except Nikon, makes pro level cameras and lenses. Nobody.  This is where you, and your 'friends' have gone wrong.  You are trying to buy pro gears and make them fit into your world.  Canon has to make gear for professionals that do the job day in day out for years. A That is what they do.  Plus it has to be top IQ day in and day out for years.

If you want all the glitter and gadgets buy Tamron or Sigma, or stay in the EF-S and prosumer line of Canon stuff.  But don't expect pro level eguipment.

[ebiggs1]

"So 1 mm is a little less than a yard, ok.  Thanks."

"I know it's "MM", I wondered why you used "meter "

You do?  It didn't appear like it.  I am through for the day.  You have sifficiently fired my brain, again.