Keaphoto - My New Lense

Peace

Hi All,

I bought a new lense (Sigma 18-200mm) on Tuesday and it arrived today (Friday!!!) in what was an excellent turn around time.

<<snip>> am well impressed. I'm looking forward to getting out and actually taking a picture of something!

First photo:

pixbyjohn

Good luck with your new lens

Doctor Tunes

I think you mean lens.

paulkellypix

Nice!

Well done - post images up soon!

Paul

Doctor Tunes

I used to have this lens on my old 300D and loved it. Nice range to have for a walkabout lens.

PixelTrawler

So is it lense or lens, i never know!

I have this lens, its main weaknesses are no full time manual focusing and horrendous barrel distortion at 18mm (take a picture of a lamp post near the side of the shot and it'll look like a banana)

The AF is noisey and it tends to be a bit soft towards 200mm and really doesnt like low light. It doesnt purple fringe really which is something.

But as an all purpose zoom its not the worst as a starter lense. Just stay away from the extremes of the range.

Oh yeah my first one failed, AF completely went. Had to get a replacement from Sigma.

Its built very well though.

ValueInIreland

It's Lens not Lense!

Creamy Goodness

toe-may-toe
toe-mah-toe

i read it as gel-lush-see. :pac:

enjoy the new lens dude.

red_ice

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

toe-may-toe
toe-mah-toe

i read it as gel-lush-see. :pac:

enjoy the new lens dude.

Have you some mad speech impediment that we should know about?

Creamy Goodness

i'm learning english with monkey phonics

red_ice

egg-salad

Peace

ValueInIreland wrote: »

It's Lens not Lense!

Yeah ok - sometimes when i'm tired the dyslexia gets the better of me. Its a challenge at the best of times.

Valentia

Definitions of 'lense'

1. (noun) lens, lense, lens system
a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images

Synonyms: lense, lens, lens system, genus Lens, lens of the eye, crystalline lens, electron lens

LeoB

Peace wrote: »

Yeah ok - sometimes when i'm tired the dyslexia gets the better of me. Its a challenge at the best of times.

Enjoy the new Le- l- leen len, the new bit of kit. Many happy hours of shooting...... Images

I know a lady of the night with dyslexia, she recently by a warehouse

paulkellypix

it's not lens or lense - it's a big long pointy thing that goes click click - but this one needs you to have the lights on, or the sun shining!

Sorry.

Paul:D

ThOnda

As far as I had followed such disputes lense is commonly understood as an americanism, so there is no need to use it on the continent and surrounding islands
In fairness, I envy that for most of you here is the English your second language so you can spot such differencies much easily.