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28 April 2010
Know what to expect with f4, and you'll be happy.
1 of 1 found this helpful Have to decide between a f/2.8 IS and this one. While my budget can support either of them, the weight of the f/2.8 seriously discouraged me. Given that I work primarily landscape (not wildlife), telezooms are merely a spare in my bag for any accidental opportunities. Carrying a 1.4kg lens for such purposes is a bit of funny I thought, since the 16-35mm I used primarily is just half its weight.
So I went for the f/4 IS, and up to now, there are no regrets I can think of. The image is crisp sharp across frame in FF, AF is almost instant, build quality is unbeatable. The IS ability is much better than expected - any average photographer hand holding 1/15s at 200mm is a piece of cake.
The only thing sacrificed is the ability to stop motion. At around ISO 800, f4 is insufficient in action stopping, so regardless of how good your IS is, your subject is still blurry. I find it a very bad idea to use this in churches. However it is an expected compromise when choosing the lighter package.
All in all it is a very decent lens for both amateur and professional use. Be sure of what you are looking for in it, and you will not be disappointed.
01 December 2021
Tiny footprint with PCIE versatility and utility
A very compact computer that is a bit underwhelming as a CAD workstation - you can only put in a mediocre GPU with a 35W T-class CPU before the PSU start struggling - so you won't be looking at a
rendering beast or modelling an international airport in LOD500.
But that is entirely missing the point - this is not a Workstation.
This is a 1 litre chassis that has
- AMT management,
- official Ubuntu support (if that helps procurement signing it off),
- 2x SODIMM slots up to 2x32GB,
- 2x PCI-E4 x4 NVMe bays, and
- an internal PCI-E3 x8 Half height expansion bay allowing non-proprietary cards.
This combination of factors make the P350 Tiny fairly unique in the SERVER market. The flexibility the PCI-E slot makes this a very versatile edge solution - with a single 40GbE QSFP+ NIC like a MCX353A-QCBT you can have a low footprint on prem storage/SQL etc solution; with a small Quadro you can have a competent CUDA compute node; with a PCI-E capture card you can have a video capture station you can stick behind a VESA monitor. The possibilities are endless.
The only thing to consider is whether 11th Gen P350 warrants the higher price over its older siblings 10th Gen P340 and 8/9th Gen P330, which still offers everything listed above at a bargain price.
However if you are reading this review when Alder Lake P360 is already out - do have a think about those as the Efficiency cores might drastically improve the utility of a small node like this.
11 July 2009
Good enough to kick start, Deep enough to progress
I am writing this review on 350D now, in 2009, when 500Ds are no longer considered new. It seems not to make any sense, to recommend anyone to invest in a camera, possibly 2nd hand, released 4 years ago. However, having played with each of these cameras from 350D to 500D, I insist that I should write something to defend the value of this old model, even among its newer and "cooler" brothers.
The 350D was the very last camera in the consumer series of DSLR which still contains a hint of taste from the Rebel film series. Starting from the 400D, the monochrome LCD display above the review monitor was taken away, one of the major thing that I disliked most about the new models. The LCD shows in very simple letters the shooting conditions you have chosen, and a button right next to it lights up the orange backlight. It is something that is simple, straight-forward and easy to understand. The whole process of taking a picture involves absolutely no fanciness, its clean, fast and straight to the point. When you cannot afford to miss a moment, this truly matters.
It was then on the 400D they started displaying all the numbers on the colour LCD screen, introduced a beautiful animation everytime you clean the sensor, added detectors to shut off the LCD when you look through the viewfinder etc etc. I heard numerous reports that the 400D dries up the battery faster than the previous models, and even though I didn't verify this statement, I would not be surprised if its true. The whole point of a camera had twisted a bit.
The story goes on with later models enlarging the LCD screen continuously until they ran out of spaces to put the buttons in, and randomly squash them into somewhere else. Also Live-View becomes a "must", completely forgetting what a DSLR is designed for; making movie modes as a feature of the camera, while you have camcorders for this purpose.
I am not saying that any of these features are poor or not worthy to have, but you can see how the basic functionality of the camera is being compromised to make way for other features which a real photographer would not care about.
I certainly appreciate that a lot of people buy DSLRs for daily use, as a High Quality point and shoot camera, but for those who really seeks to progress to a higher level in photography, they are just paying all the extra to get that one feature they wanted. A Victorinox is good in every camper's pocket, but when what you really need is just a knife, then buying (literally just) a knife would possibly do the job best for you.
One may argue that at the time of release, the price of a 300D is not very different from that of a 500D, which is quite true, with 300D being more expensive. Yet we are currently looking into a world of 2009, in which 350D costs you 200 quid only, half of what a 500D would cost. You could say then, the extra cost you paid is for that bit of unnecessary extra features and the meaningless race of mega-pixel quantities.
And at the end of the day its more about the lens rather than the camera body. If you could spare 200 quid for lenses, I am sure you get more fun than a HD movie mode.
I had a 350D since 2005, and it was lately when I realized I need another camera to reduce lens swapping time. Naturally you would look into all these options out there - from 1000D to 50D - but I rested on the same old 350D finally. Not just because I know this camera by heart, its also because this camera in turn knows a photographer by heart.