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Camera Gibberish Help Please

  • 23-02-2007 10:51am
    #1
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭


    Googling this kind of stuff is hard so I thought I'd come bother you fine people.

    I'm interested in getting this lens Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM, or something like it.

    Focal length and aperture I get, but what the hell is EX DC HSM?


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  • #2
    PaulieC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭PaulieC


    EX - Excellent. Sigma's highend line of lenses
    DC - Not quite sure, but something related to extra coating on lenses specifically designed for digital cameras
    HSM - Hypersonic Motor, Sigma's version of USM


  • #3
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Ok, cool. So none of these things would limit what camera they can be used on? (D70s)


  • #4
    PaulieC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭PaulieC


    absolutely not. Make sure you get a Nikon mount though :D . Not getting that would limit it's usefulness somewhat.


  • #5
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I suppose I could hit a Canon owner with it...

    :D


  • #6
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    What a shame...I have one of these in a Canon mount going up for sale... :D


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  • #7
    tab126
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭tab126


    That lens is great. I've got one and absolutely love it. Color is amazing. And it gets the landscapes/city shots I just can't otherwise get. Weighs a ton, though... you really could kill somebody with it.


  • #8
    Shiny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    Fajitas! wrote:
    What a shame...I have one of these in a Canon mount going up for sale... :D

    really?

    When? :)


  • #9
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    tab126 wrote:
    That lens is great. I've got one and absolutely love it. Color is amazing. And it gets the landscapes/city shots I just can't otherwise get. Weighs a ton, though... you really could kill somebody with it.

    I was planning on using it for some quite invasive portraits :)


  • #10
    Dr.Louis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Dr.Louis


    Doesn't 'DC' mean the same as DX- ie; only suitable for dSLRs? So film and full frame dslrs cant use them?
    It's explained towards the bottom of this page-

    http://photo.box.sk/tip.php3?id=88


  • #11
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Shiny wrote:
    really?

    When? :)


    Sooooon... I'm just back from Spain, and flying out again in anohter few hours...So...In a week...If I'm still alive...


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