I know of a website that compares camera bodies, dpreview.com but do you know of one that tests lenses?
2007-10-04 06:46:55 · 7 answers · asked by Paul R 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
http://www.photozone.de has some excellent testing (although only for crop sensors!)
http://www.fredmiranda.com has a solid base of user-reviews
http://www.slrgear.com has reviews and testing for both full frame and crop.
http://www.16-9.net/
Is another site with excellent in-depth reviews and testing.
Hope this helps!
Contrary to what another poster stated, there is a HUGE difference between the quality of different models of lenses in a given manufacturer's lineup. In some cases, there is a significant difference between different versions of the same lens, even (my Canon 16-35L MKII vs its MKI predecessor comes to mind).
2007-10-04 11:12:33 · answer #1 · answered by Evan B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are working with a brandname lens - cannon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Sony, etc - you are generally not going to find enough difference to notice and if there is a report on one, that is just one lens out of a batch. I would consider Vivitar, Tamron, and Sigma as very good quality aftermarket manufacturers - it is the ones that you don't know the names of that will give you the problems.
2007-10-04 08:48:55 · answer #2 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just doa websearch on the lens you want to look at. I go to google all the time and put in for example, "Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 reviews", and get hundreds of returns.
I've found that www.dcresource.com, www.dpreview.com, www.kenrockwell.com, www.bythom.com, www.photographyreview.com,www.popphoto.com plus hundreds of others come up.
2007-10-04 08:39:13 · answer #3 · answered by gryphon1911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.betterphoto.com
They have equipment reviews, forums, q&a, galleries, courses, etc. It's a good website for photography.
2007-10-04 08:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Gen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Canon Lenses and Reviews
http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Canon-Lenses/
(See "Recommendations" on this page)
http://www.photo.net/canon/#lense
http://www.wlcastleman.com/equip/reviews/index.htm
http://www.photozone.de/active/news/index.jsp
http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/index.html
http://www.fredmiranda.com
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1029
Nikon Lenses and Reviews
http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=5
http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_surv.html
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/nikkor.htm
http://www.bythom.com/nikon.htm
http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/index.php?cat=1
http://www.nikonlinks.com/equipment_lenses_zoom-normal.htm
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1030
http://www.nikonians.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID6&conf=DCConfID3
http://www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/pdfs/Nikkor%20lens%20Broch_061017.pdf
2007-10-04 16:47:02 · answer #5 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try slrgear.com/reviews/index.php
2007-10-04 06:58:53 · answer #6 · answered by EDWIN 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
popphoto.com
2007-10-04 09:51:50 · answer #7 · answered by wrencabin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋