Recent content by naxtek

Amazon in the end. I had some gift vouchers there, and I wasn't sure about warranty issues if buying it from DigitalRev. Cost me £285, but £35 of that was vouchers so cost me £250 in actual money :D Thanks all for putting my mind at ease about the mounting. By the way, that bazooka is crazy!

I went for the Tamron in the end. Very pleased with it so far. Image quality is excellent, and the VR feature seems to work well. The only downside is the size and weight. It's a hefty beast. I might have to get a new camera bag :( I'm worried about attaching such a heavy lens to the front...

Maybe I will try the 55-250 for now and upgrade to something better in the future. It's so cheap I wouldn't mind so much if I needed to replace it in 18 months with something better. Also, the Tamron does look like a big heavy beast - I thought the Sigma I have been using was heavy, but the...

Interesting that no one said much about the Canon IS USM lens, is it best avoided? http://www.digitalrev.com/product/canon-ef-70-300mm-f/OTE0

Interesting, thanks for all your responses. So it looks like either this one: http://www.digitalrev.com/product/canon-ef-s-55-250mm/MTIxMjc_A or this one: http://www.digitalrev.com/product/tamron-sp-af-70-300mm/MTMyNzQ_A Choices choices. I think I'm swaying towards the Tamron - the extra...

Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to photography, but I'm building up my kit. I've had an EOS 500D for about a year now, and in the mean time have accumulated (in addition to the 18-55 kit lens) a 50mm prime f1.8 portrait lens. For the past few months I've borrowed a friend's Sigma 70-300...