I rented this lens for a few weeks to photograph wildlife in Montana and Yellowstone. This was the first lens I've used in the 500mm focal range, and I used a monopod to support the weight because it's at least 5 pounds. I played around with shutter speeds to end up with a sharp image. Of course, anything faster than 1/750 worked fine. With the monopod, I felt OK dropping it to 1/600, bu...

The SB-800 is an awesome flash, very powerful, nearly as much light as some studio mono-lights. It includes an extra battery holder which makes absolutely no sense. The flash takes 4 AA rechargeable batteries and the extra holder has one more. It is unbelievably inconvenient to charge one AA battery by itself so I don't use it. I just have an extra set of 4AA rechargeable batteries ready. Th...

Review by Uspshooter The D80 is a decent body with 10.2 MP. The only thing I haven't liked about it is the auto white balance, which seems to be inconsistent. I can take multiple shots of the same thing and sometimes get differing color settings. Other than that the camera works great. I also have an MB-D80 battery grip, 70-210mm f4-5.6D AF lens, and SB-800 flash (among other little goodies...

Sigma's 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM lens allows enjoyment of super wide-angle photography and it is a very powerful tool for indoor shooting and landscape photography with APS-C size image sensors of digital SLR cameras. The wide angle of view ranges between 102.4-degrees at 10mm and 63.8-degrees at 20mm, which offers the photographer greater freedom of expression. It has a minimum focusing dis...

I've done some research on this lens because its one that I'm planning on buying. From what I've seen elsewhere on the Internet, it's highly rated by hobbyists and serious amateurs and fits into most people's budget that have invested in a DSLR. The vibration reduction is the main feature that people buy it for, as it allows a person to shoot at 4 stops slower than normal whe...

This is the kit lens that comes with some of the Canon DSLR's. It is a nice lens that is built pretty good. Hey, for the price you can't go wrong. The quality of the photos are really nice; they give you this lens that makes very nice photos, but it's a low end lens and they know you will want to get an upgraded one after a while. It focuses really fast and does not use your battery...

Review by Cindy I find this very good in that I don't have to carry lenses etc around with me, I can just turn the dial for the appropriate scene and shoot. Its maybe not the best for night time shots but apart from that, it suits me fine. It captures color wonderfully, easy and light to hold and the ultra zoom is amazing. A little tricky to sometimes hold the cover open and insert the USB c...

I used to work for a portrait studio company that uses this camera. The color is really nice and it produces great enlargements. We tested many different cameras and when we blew up a 30"x40" image, we couldn't see a pixel from an inch away. At about $1700, it's a great Pro camera, especially in a busy environment where you're doing many sittings a day. It's easy in suc...

I used the Fuji S1 Pro at work when I worked for a photography studio company. They let me take the camera off location, which was really cool because at the time, this was a higher end digital camera. It produced a good image at about 4MP, if I remember right. The only real thing that I could complain about with this camera was the horrible battery life. It quickly sucked batteries dry, and it...

This Sony H1 has been a good dependable little workhorse that would shoot all day on a pair of AA batteries and when coupled with the VCL-DH1758 1.7 teleconverter lens, it works quite well bringing the subject in. The only problem I have had with it is that for a spell (about a month) it would decide when it wanted to start up. I mean it could be laying on my desk at the other side of the room a...