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Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 1:27 AM
Subject: Re: 50-500mm Sigma Lens

Hi, Chris!


> Where do you carry all this stuff? I have a new problem - SPACE.
> Problem is, I now have:
>
> D100 Camera Body
> Coolpix 995 Camera
> Nikkor 24-120 lens
> Sigma 70-200mm lens
> Sigma 2x Teleconverter
> Batteries, Filters, Compact flash cards...  and....
> The NEW lens, which is so long I would have to modify the bag to fit it
> in, and I would have to throw out the 70-200mm lens if I want to carry
> the 50-500...
>
> This is NOT good.... whatever happened to being able to walk up and
> shoot something without spending three hours putting it all together and
> needing a crane to pick it all up? 

We can't have our cake and eat it, too,  Darn it!  

With a 20X range roughly the equivalent of 35mm to 400mm on the Sony FD-95
it comes close.  Ten X optical plus 10 digital allows me to frame near and
far at the moment's notice without doing more than moving the index finger
on the zoom to the magnification desired.  Sure wish it had 5 mega pixels
instead of 2.1 but in the end result it often gives equal or better quality
than max range tele extension on the CP 5000 because that has to be blown up
so far to come close to the Sony image.


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