Price Comparisons of Vivitar 28-300mm Series One Zoom Lens for Minolta-AF SLRs

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Vivitar 28-300mm Series One Zoom Lens for Minolta-AF SLRs Product Description:

• Compact 28-300mm zoom lens
• Automatic focus
• Compatible with Minolta autofocus single-lens reflex cameras
• Aperture range of f/4.0 to f/16
• Minimum focusing distance of 6.2 feet

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
EXCELLENT LENS!
By A Customer
Run- don't walk to buy this lens if you are considering it. I found to work excellently and take razor sharp pictures. No offense to the reviewer above, but I found it to be a surprisingly light lense. Don't let weight keep you from buying it. 28-300 is worth a TON on convience. It sometimes is slow taking the picture working with AF with my Minolta 7xi, but that could just be my camera. Also I have a tad of trouble getting the lens cap on all the way (with a UV filter on). But these are minor and I HIGHLY recommend this lens.

25 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Decent lens
By A Customer
Nice to only have to carry around one lens, but it is a rather heavy lens. Works great, though. To zoom with the lens, it just slides in and out, you don't rotate it like you normally would operate an SLR lens (at least any I've seen). Kind of weird to get used to sliding the whole lens instead of turning it. I much prefer the turning method for zooming.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Great All-around Lens
By A Customer
I decided to give the 28mm - 300mm Series 1 Zoom a try since I also own a 25 year old Vivitar Series 1 90mm Macro lens for my old Minolta SRT-101. I have owned mostly Minolta branded (Rokkor) lenses so for me to purchase a non-Minolta lens, it had to be outstanding. You won't be disappointed. It is a sharp, well-built lens and gives me an all-around lens for virtually all situations. I agree with the other reviewer that this is not a heavy lens. Maybe I am old-fashioned but the push-pull zooming works just fine. I will still hang on to my Minolta 28mm-80mm Zoom that I got with the STsi but more as a back up. Vivitar does warn the user to not attach the included lens shade if you are using the camera's built-in flash in the wider angles as the lens shade may cast a shadow on your picture. I have used my built-in flash with this lens many times mostly for fill-in lighting with no problems. You have to remember to unlock the lens lock button when you turn your camera on but it really has not been a nuisance for me at all.

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Discounted imageCLASS MF8580Cdw Wireless 4-In-1 Color Laser Multifunction Printer with Scanner, Copier and Fax

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imageCLASS MF8580Cdw Wireless 4-In-1 Color Laser Multifunction Printer with Scanner, Copier and Fax Product Description:

• Wireless connectivity Air Print, Google Cloud Print, Wi-Fi
• Easily access the scan, eco-copy, and secure print functions right from the control panel with the Simple Solution Keys
• Navigate through all features seamlessly with the 7-line color LCD display
• Print in black and white and color up to 21 pages per minute
• Send scanned documents and forward received faxes to a recipient through email or file server

Product Description

Versatile wireless multifunction printer produces professional color output with an easy to use color LCD display for seamless navigation, Secure Print for additional security and mobile printing capabilities on the go.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Thought it would be better...
By daphaze1
Machine is still bulky. I wished the MFP were made smaller still. For laser its an okay size.Canon seems to be overall nice and fully packed with features but extremely hard to setup and understand.Seems like all the company's have their sort of problems.Below is what I've found so far.HP is very easy to use when it works. Drivers and printers aren't built like they used to. The boot up time is slow! and slow reconnecting network on the wireless side. But extremely easy to use and understand and setup. Drivers are easy to find when their website doesn't have problems.Xerox packs a punch in printing but hard to find them good cause they are expensive in price. I had no problems understanding how to use the printer without any help of the manuals. Drivers comes out slowly for new OS.Canon is extremely hard to setup but does all the features of what you would expect in MFP office environment. Drivers are solid but not always up to date unless you buy a new printer. They made network setup extremely painful for those with complicated passwords again! Almost enough for people to want to throw this machine down on the floor before they finish the setup. On this machine they made it the numpad / tabbing for caps and symbols by selecting it for each password first, kinda like a fax. Extremely painful if you have caps or mixed numbers in your password. With all the buttons they had, they could of made scrolling easy! As this feature was much more universal.Second of all there is no touchscreen. Customer service told me there would be, thinking it would made wireless setup easier. Sadly there is none.Printing color will require some good paper. Prints looks like wet ink if on regular paper. Thats where I like Xerox. You can print on bad paper and still get decent results. But I do like the sharpness. Pretty fast printer load up time and fast printing.Oh yeah my printer also error out on adjusting so maybe that can be the reason. I have yet to do a lot of printing on it. Just testing and getting the setup going. I like the duplex scanning and speed of this machine. Seems very office friendly in terms of speed. Also has a sleep mode for easy on and off. Seems solid for good office use, just don't change passwords on your router. I probably need to go through the manual, it wasn't as easy as I thought to setup and test this machine to change settings. That being said a lot of my printing experiences can be better. But from the reviews probably not by much.

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Sale Shop-Vac 2850010 2.0-Peak HP Two-Stage Back Pack Vacuum

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Shop-Vac 2850010 2.0-Peak HP Two-Stage Back Pack Vacuum Product Description:

• BackPack vacuum tackles large areas with minimum effort plus the advantage of mobility
• Compact size allows BackPack vac to be stored in small spaces.
• Industrial 2 HP two-stage motor
• Include: 5-foot x 1 1/2-inch hose, (2) aluminum extension wands, dual surface selector nozzle, crevice tool, 6-inch nozzle, round brush, adapter, 50-foot extension cord, and filters include super performance cloth, disposable fine dust collection bag
• 1-year warranty

Product Description

The Shop-Vac Industrial Back Pack vacuum features a long-life 2.0 HP motor and a comfortable, adjustable backpack harness system. Lightweight design allows user to tackle large areas with minimum effort and clean the toughest hard-to-reach spots. For use with dry pick-up only. U.S.A. Gallons: 1 3/4, HP: 2, Power Cord (ft.): 50, Application: Dry, Hose Length (ft.): 5

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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
It does what you think it does
By J. Williams
I have a couple shop vacs in the shop and garage so I'm familiar with their quality. I got this one to walk around the house and clean out the corners; along the side of the fridge; around the fireplace etc. Works great. Picks up little wood chunks around the fireplace just like a shop-vac should - not like an upright which requires major surgery when it breaths in such things. Not as noisy as an upright hoover. The fifty foot cord is more than enough and you really can walk around the house comfortably with the thing on your back. It uses throw-away bags and so far, I haven't been able to find a source (including the shop-vac web site). Assume those will be available soon.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Reality sets in...
By H. A. Nunes
Have owned this vac for a couple of years. The back-pack vac concept is great. You can cover territory faster than any other type; very efficient with a long cord. This model may not be the best execution of the concept. I recommend you look around at all the models before buying. COMFORT: those straps are pretty thin, and the hard plastic back hurts my spine and makes me sweat. HANDLING: because the hose attaches at the top of the canister, it swings around over your head, particularly if you lean over to pick something up. I have to wrap it around my forearm to keep it from flopping about. It picks up static electricity too. CLEANING: the convertible floor/rug tool does a good job but not outstanding, and requires repeated passes, particularly on rugs. Makes a squeaky sound on wood floors on the back stroke (?). FILTERS: these babies cost $5+ per filter, in packs of 5, plus shipping. Wow. On the other hand, they do a very good job keeping dust inside the canister. HOSE: the purportedly "heavy duty" hose breaks off near the wand and canister fittings every couple of months, shortening the hose by a couple of inches each time. I am down to 4' of hose, and it is not enough. Replacement is $38 plus shipping. VELCRO: The on/off switch hangs off the canister on a short dongle, and is velcro'd to the waist belt for convenience. It gets pretty warm during usage, and the Velcro adhesive gave way eventually, so I had to replace that. ATTACHMENTS: The attachments work reasonably well, but an adaptor is required to attach some to the wands. All fit into the waist band with elastic loops. The attachments regularly fall off the strap, because they are in the way of your swinging arms so you bump them. The elastic loops began to fray pretty quickly.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Huge time-saver
By Jeff Sorrentino
Goodbye to dustcloths, brooms, dustpans! I use the wand with brush attachment for cobwebs/tables/windowsills, switch to the T-attachment for furniture, then wrap up with the floor attachment which works equally well for wood/tile floors and oriental rugs. Some people might find the backpack model cumbersome, but in my mind it beats lugging a canister around and having to move it every 5 feet (especially for steps!) I would not recommend it for wall-to-wall carpeting (we have wood floors so no problem there) or garage cleaning (that's what a 'real' shopvac is for.) For everything else, though, this device is wonderful... good power/noise ratio and power/weight ratio. One minor complaint is that the T-handle doesn't have an integrated dirt-loosening brush; I swapped it out with a more effective version from an old upright.

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