On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:19:26 +1100, "Marc Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote/replied to:
>Anyway, the point is....what were we talking about? Oh yeah, >the point is the 70-200 IS is my first ever L-series and >"Big White" lens (even if the "big" is not, relative to other >Big Whites :-) ). I've a photo of one of my dogs that, >while only a snappy to test the lens, is to me astoundly >useful/sharp (for my standards) at 1/25th of a second at the >200mm end on my 10D. It was like when I got the first shots >from the EF 100/2.8 Macro - I was a bit "Oh, this is what >they're talking about". Subsequent photos have confirmed that >impression, if not the usefulness of IS in every shot. Agreed, yesterday I saw a pretty little bird in the tree in the yard across the street. Kind of far away, had to be 200 feet, but I thought what the heck. Got out the 10d and the 100-400L IS with Kenko 1.4X. Kind of a dull day, at ISO 400 was shooting wide open at 1/60th of a second. That's a real FL of 640mm handheld. Couple were a bit blurry, this little critter bounces around like crazy. But I got a couple real nice sharp photos out of the effort. Never would have been possible without IS, that is for sure! I had to crop quite a bit too, but hey, it fills my monitor nicely. I love IS and long lenses. Bottom of the page here: http://naturephoto.easternbeaver.com/Birds/Other_Birds/other_birds.html BTW, most of the images on these pages were shot the same way with the same combo. I'm not lazy, I just hate tripods ;-) -- Jim Davis, Nature Photography: http://naturephoto.easternbeaver.com/ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
