At 04:47 AM 01/16/2001, you wrote:
>I was shooting a motorcycle race along side of a photographer from the
>Calgary Herald last September. He looked over and saw that I was using a
>75-300 4.0-5.6 IS. He said: "Here, give this a try!", and passed me his
>70-200 2.8. Later, we swapped the 70-200 for the 300 2.8 he had been using
>on his digital.
>
>The difference between the two lenses was literally night and day. The
>image in the view finder was so much brighter with the faster 'L' glass.
The image in the finder was brighter 'cause you'd switched from an f/4 to
an f/2.8 lens and were getting literally twice as much light in your eye.
"L" glass has nothing to do with that, although it IS a great lens.
--
regards,
Henry Posner
Director of Sales and Training
B&H Photo-Video, and Pro-Audio Inc.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com
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