Thanks for replying so quickly.I will sent a image of one of the photograph.kodak lens which I was referring can be found at http://www.kodakgear.com/lenses-1.html I get them photographs printed on a regular 4x6's print.

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Hi , I bought a canon EOS rebel 300 camera 3 months ago and a Tamron AF 28-80 lens.I bought both the things over internet.But The performance is realy poor.I spoke to different people and they had different views.Some said try using roll of 400,200,100 speed.That also did'nt work.Some said it's the Lens compatibility problem.Could it be ? I have bought a kodak gear 80-210 lens.But I need to try it.Will this lens work ?I tried with auto and manual mode both.But nothing worked.The pictures are still grainy,dark and unclear. I am very upset about this camera.As I had minolta earlier which was a auto zoom camera and the results of that $80 camera is hundred times better .

Please suggest

-- Ambreesh Srivastava (ambrishsriv@yahoo.com), November 13, 2001

Answers "grainy,dark and unclear" 1. What settings do you take your pictures with. 2. How large to you have them printed (ie. regular 4x6's or 8x10s etc.) 3. Could be your lens (btw. I never heard of a kodak gear lens, so it may not work). 4. Can you post an example of one or some of your pictures.

-- Jake F. (JakeF@nowhere.net), November 13, 2001.

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It really depends on how you are using the camera. What settings are you using? What type of subjects are you shooting? SLR cameras do need a moment to focus. If you are pressing the trigger before autofocus is achieved, your pictures will be out of focus. It may also be a problem with the Tamron lens. Can you give more details about how you have the camera set, what subjects you are shooting, what conditions you are shooting under, etc.

-- Peter Phan (pphan01@hotmail.com), November 13, 2001.

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"The pictures are still grainy,dark and unclear." - That sounds like underexposure of color negative (print) film. Could be the lens stopping down to the wrong aperture, or the shutter setting incorrectly, or the light meter is way off.

It is possible that the lens is causing this, but in my opinion it is more likely you have a defective camera. Try a different lens if you can. Borrow or rent a Canon lens and shot another roll. (What's a Kodak Gear lens?)

Another possiblility is just plain old bad printing.

-- Jim Strutz (j.strutz@gci.net), November 13, 2001.

-- Ambreesh Srivastava (ambrishsriv@yahoo.com), November 14, 2001

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I checked out that url you gave for the Kodak Gear, and was amazed to see the lens you're talking about...all I can say, is there are sometimes manufacturing/quality bugs in any 1st generation product, so maybe Kodak has a product-integrity issue on their hands, after all, the last time they made 35mm lenses in the US was about 45 years ago, so maybe their "sub-contractor" is cutting corners. It looks like they offer a guarantee - use it! By the way, Canon cameras are superb, as are most of their lenses...you can't go wrong with a Canon/Canon combo!!

-- Charles Hansen (charleshansen@aol.com), November 14, 2001.

Looks like the Canon/Tamron combo isn't really compatible..or else as another user mentioned, it may be a case of plain bad printing..

I bought the Canon EOS 300 around a year back....and it gives me flawless performance...in fact i learnt the very basics of photography on this camera...and i am damn pleased with the results...and since then i have tried my hand out at other models by other manufacturers as well..and no way would i trade my canon eos 300 for any other model in the same category....

i would seriously recommend going for canon lenses..b4 u do that however, it would make more sense in finding out if u happened to unfortunately land a defective piece..

ciao venkat

-- Venkat (venkat_p_iyer@yahoo.com), November 17, 2001.