Saturday, June 12, 2004

Tipa Awards

Well the 2004 Tipa awards have been given now, and I see that 300D got the breakthrough prize. Well although it was the 300D that "broke through" I still think The Nikon D70 is a better consumer camera, which of course is the price they got for that too. If you want to go Canon I would recommend the 10D instead.

Sandisk got the storage media price, which I think is correct also. The Sandisk Ultra II cards are really good.

Other than that I see that Epson got all the prices related to printing, which might be right. Well until they realise the thing breaks down after half a year and the usage cost is way higher than anticipated. Ok, maybe I have been burned once, and base my feelings on that. But thats me. :-)

Sigma got the best consumer lens award, which might also be right. I dont know much about this lens but it sounds like a good spec and I guess its true. My only experience with Sigma was a 24mm that would never work right on my EOS 50e/Elan2, and many friends who can hear parts falling apart inside the lens. While this was some years ago, I hope Sigma has improved their build quality. Well this is an EX lens so its the top of the line for Sigma, and if you are on a budget I guess its a good alternative to the Canon 16-35mm or the 17-40mm.

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