Gordon wrote:
> It would be fine for the birds which have been attracted to my garden since I started feeding them
> meal worms and wax worms, but I wonder if I'd carry it very often on walks?
It's bigger and bulkier than a digital compact, but it's a very nice camera.
> I just weighed the 2800z at 400g with 4 AA cells fitted.
> I suppose as my walking is fairly modest these days (8 miles last Thursday), I could carry a
> 1kg camera,
The camera itself is only 691g without the lens, but including the battery, flash card and strap.
The supplied lens weighs just 184g. Total 886g (the weight I gave you earlier included a tripod
release base).
> but a large lens.........??
You haven't been keeping up with lens design have you? The Canon 70-300 zoom that a friend has lent
me is rather long, but made of plastic it's surprisingly light for it's size, just 523g.
The Sigma zoom that I mentioned is about the same, at 530g, but quite compact.
http://www.sigmaphoto.com/html/pages/70_300_ams2.htm
But there's an even lighter, smaller model if you prefer, a 100-300mm, only 4 inches long and weighs
410g. The quality of this lens is not so good though.
http://www.sigmaphoto.com/html/pages/100_300_dl.htm
On the other hand, if you have money to burn, why not splash out on Canon's new 70-300mm zoom. It's
so small you'd never think it was a telephoto lens, and it has image stabilisation, great for those
hand held shots.
"It is likely to appeal to professional photojournalists and serious advanced amateurs with a need
to contain the size and weight of equipment carried."
Sounds like an ideal backpacking lens! Unfortunately they're asking $1300 for it, so that's probably
the same in pounds, so I doubt I'll be buying one for a while yet... :-(
http://www.letsgodigital.be/en/news/articles/story_780.html
As for the camera, the final review has just been posted at dpreview;
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos300d/
Paul
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