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Yes Nikon have priced themselves out of the Market and I am planning to upgrade my kit prior to retirement but after doing the sums I can save more than R 200 K !!! by buying the equivalent and in some cases BETTER by changing to the White lens brigade

I just hope that the newly announced much vaunted Canon 100-400 f4.5 - 5.6 is as sharp as my current Nikon 80-400 equivalent??

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Hope you're going to be satisfied with your new brand.

I've always been on the Canon side so can't really comment on comparisons but I hope you're very happy with your new kit

From what I've heard the new 100-400 is a very sharp lens with extremely fast autofocus. I think you'll be very happy with it

Polentswa wrote:Yes Nikon have priced themselves out of the Market and I am planning to upgrade my kit prior to retirement but after doing the sums I can save more than R 200 K !!! by buying the equivalent and in some cases BETTER by changing to the White lens brigade

I just hope that the newly announced much vaunted Canon 100-400 f4.5 - 5.6 is as sharp as my current Nikon 80-400 equivalent??

LETS KEEP IT REAL!!!! REGARDING PIC size ..This is AFRICA..lets keep Moderators local ..I had major problems with 'foreign Mods ' on SPF ..Not again please ..I size my pics at 1000 for other forums and do a special favour here by doing a 2nd copy at 900 about ..lets not be pedantic and MOVE on and join the program and the MODERN world of OTHER forums who PREFER 1000 Plus longest side on a Pic

PJL wrote:I've always been on the Canon side so can't really comment on comparisons but I hope you're very happy with your new kit

From what I've heard the new 100-400 is a very sharp lens with extremely fast autofocus. I think you'll be very happy with it

Thanks PJL ..When I started with Nikon there was no Canon ..but they are leading the show at the moment especially on price

Polentswa wrote:

Polentswa wrote:Yes Nikon have priced themselves out of the Market and I am planning to upgrade my kit prior to retirement but after doing the sums I can save more than R 200 K !!! by buying the equivalent and in some cases BETTER by changing to the White lens brigade

I just hope that the newly announced much vaunted Canon 100-400 f4.5 - 5.6 is as sharp as my current Nikon 80-400 equivalent??

LETS KEEP IT REAL!!!! REGARDING PIC size ..This is AFRICA..lets keep Moderators local ..I had major problems with 'foreign Mods ' on SPF ..Not again please ..I size my pics at 1000 for other forums and do a special favour here by doing a 2nd copy at 900 about ..lets not be pedantic and MOVE on and join the program and the MODERN world of OTHER forums who PREFER 1000 Plus longest side on a Pic

Actually Polentswa, I take exception to this post and your implications. There is nothing wrong with the moderators on here, they are following the rules of the forum as set out by and through the input of all participating, local, foreign and even alien. There are very few and very easy rules to follow. In the Modern world that you are referring to, there is no local or foreign, but just one big web.

Perhaps you should be looking in the mirror to see where the problem lies with all the forums moderators that you have an issue with. They cant all be problems surely.

RobertT wrote:

Polentswa wrote:

Polentswa wrote:Yes Nikon have priced themselves out of the Market and I am planning to upgrade my kit prior to retirement but after doing the sums I can save more than R 200 K !!! by buying the equivalent and in some cases BETTER by changing to the White lens brigade

I just hope that the newly announced much vaunted Canon 100-400 f4.5 - 5.6 is as sharp as my current Nikon 80-400 equivalent??

LETS KEEP IT REAL!!!! REGARDING PIC size ..This is AFRICA..lets keep Moderators local ..I had major problems with 'foreign Mods ' on SPF ..Not again please ..I size my pics at 1000 for other forums and do a special favour here by doing a 2nd copy at 900 about ..lets not be pedantic and MOVE on and join the program and the MODERN world of OTHER forums who PREFER 1000 Plus longest side on a Pic

Actually Polentswa, I take exception to this post and your implications. There is nothing wrong with the moderators on here, they are following the rules of the forum as set out by and through the input of all participating, local, foreign and even alien. There are very few and very easy rules to follow. In the Modern world that you are referring to, there is no local or foreign, but just one big web.

Perhaps you should be looking in the mirror to see where the problem lies with all the forums moderators that you have an issue with. They cant all be problems surely.

I'm not entirely sure what the pic size has to do with a move from Nikon to Canon, but generally the phpBB software which is used on forums is an 'out-of-the-box' solution. Personally I have no issue re-sizing images as it forms part of my workflow anyway. Having said that there may be a setting in the phpBB software that allows it to auto-resize images which are larger than the user's screen size allows rather than overflowing the picture so it appears cut-off. It's certainly not anything to do with being 'modern' and it's perhaps a bit unnecessary to SHOUT about the issue - why don't we just drop the guys a friendly line to find out if there's something which can assist in a nice way?

Fair enough Polentswa,

I'll step down from the committee and you can pay towards the running costs of the forum instead of us "foreign" mods.

You can send your cheque to RP.

RobertT wrote:

Polentswa wrote:

Polentswa wrote:Yes Nikon have priced themselves out of the Market and I am planning to upgrade my kit prior to retirement but after doing the sums I can save more than R 200 K !!! by buying the equivalent and in some cases BETTER by changing to the White lens brigade

I just hope that the newly announced much vaunted Canon 100-400 f4.5 - 5.6 is as sharp as my current Nikon 80-400 equivalent??

LETS KEEP IT REAL!!!! REGARDING PIC size ..This is AFRICA..lets keep Moderators local ..I had major problems with 'foreign Mods ' on SPF ..Not again please ..I size my pics at 1000 for other forums and do a special favour here by doing a 2nd copy at 900 about ..lets not be pedantic and MOVE on and join the program and the MODERN world of OTHER forums who PREFER 1000 Plus longest side on a Pic

Actually Polentswa, I take exception to this post and your implications. There is nothing wrong with the moderators on here, they are following the rules of the forum as set out by and through the input of all participating, local, foreign and even alien. There are very few and very easy rules to follow. In the Modern world that you are referring to, there is no local or foreign, but just one big web.

Perhaps you should be looking in the mirror to see where the problem lies with all the forums moderators that you have an issue with. They cant all be problems surely.

Thanks RT and agreed Polentswa, that's rather unfair and uncalled for


The pic size limitation, as explained elsewhere, is mainly due to numerous complaints from members that TT’s take forever to load with larger pics and slower internet connection (TT’s sometimes have 10 plus pics in a post) therefore they give up on it loading and move on. We can’t change this rule to suit someone who just posts 1 or 2 pics at a time.

The one thing about this forum is that we will try and accommodate everybody, so “we” are working on a solution which will hopefully suit both parties and if it doesn’t work out at least we tried

Check here!

I don't think that foreign or SA mods have a proper personal interest in max. sizes of photos here, as far as I know, all mods have fast connections and no problems with loading pages, the issue came from other members complaining that pages don't load, hence we did a poll to ask all members to vote for a "rule" in this regard.

What's the issue here, Polentswa?