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I'm looking at picking up a new lens too for a walkaround. Was thinking about this one here. Seems to cover quite a lot of ground, and it's gotten some decent marks from what little I've been able to find on it. That's more or less the price range I'm looking at right now, so if you have any other ideas, I'd love to hear them.
The Tamron 18-250 gets pretty good reviews. No idea how the two compare.
 
I'm looking at picking up a new lens too for a walkaround. Was thinking about this one here. Seems to cover quite a lot of ground, and it's gotten some decent marks from what little I've been able to find on it. That's more or less the price range I'm looking at right now, so if you have any other ideas, I'd love to hear them.

Personally, I would be a little wary of superzooms. You have to give up something somewhere as there are no free lunches, and 18-250mm is a huge range to cover. It is a bit of a slow lens on the long end, but depending on what you are after that might not be a bad thing. If it were me, I might look at which end of that zoom I am most interested in and focus on lenses that might deliver that portion at a similar price but better quality. All that said, I have never seen images from it, so it might be the best thing since sliced bread, and I am more of a prime lens guy so I'm the last one you want advice from ;)

These are from the Station fire, day shot was yesterday, night shot was from a few minutes ago:



 
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Here are a couple of random shots from the last few weeks.

This damn night gig that I've got has been seriously impacting my ability to do any photo related activities.

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This little dude was hanging out on the chrome bug-deflector of my truck this morning.

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I wish it had been clean...
 
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More play with the 500mm.

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The more I use this thing, the more I think that having it mated to the D3 is a match made in heaven.
 
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I would go for it but it's only a jump from 15 to 18mp. I'd rather get a used 5DmkII and get 24 mp (and full frame) I think if I was to do anything. I'm trying to control myself right now although 24 mp would be sweet.
 
Don't you lose some frames per second with the 5DmkII? Not a good thing if you're shooting sports or other fast-moving stuff, I'd think.
 
Damn. Today's been a pretty photo-tastic day!

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This dude jumped out of the bushes in front as I was watering them.
 
I would go for it but it's only a jump from 15 to 18mp. I'd rather get a used 5DmkII and get 24 mp (and full frame) I think if I was to do anything. I'm trying to control myself right now although 24 mp would be sweet.

Don't you lose some frames per second with the 5DmkII? Not a good thing if you're shooting sports or other fast-moving stuff, I'd think.

And the autofocus on the 5DmkII is the exact same as it is one the 5D, which is to say only 1 cross type sensor right in the middle, the others I don't trust at all. The 7D has a totally new AF, with some really nice features which Canon has been lacking for a long, long time. I am sure will be what the 1D(s) MkIVs will have but they want to make sure they get it right before putting it in an $8k camera.
 
Here are a handful of shots that I got today at the North American Reptile Breeder's Conference and Trade Show in Anaheim.

I'm not a breeder, or even an owner. Just figured that the 4-year old would get a kick out of having extreme reptile overload. There were about a billion snakes, lizards, spiders, frogs, bugs, and other multi-legged creatures.

My wife has decided that we're buying a Bearded Dragon, and some variety of corn snake. Maybe we shouldn't have gone. Each one of those will need a habitat, and food, and lights, and a heater, and, and, and.

Anyhow, these were shot with available light, and most at f5.6 and 800 ISO if I recall. The lizards were in tubs with more light available, the snakes were through glass. (I did a bit of Photoshop cleanup on dust and particulates for those.) And all of the shots were tweaked from the RAW to fix white balance, contrast and for purely aesthetic reasons.


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Walking back to my car after the UCLA game this weekend. Very little touching up in PS. Tried to reduce some of the noise. Still seems like a little much for my tastes.
 
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