Herb Chong said: > in brilliant sunlight with high speed film. that has its own compromises. > > Herb..... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory L. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 14:21 > Subject: Re: Usefulness of IS lenses > > > > Some people on the newsgroups have reported and linked to tack sharp > > pictures of birds in flight, the camera handheld while panning. I don't > > think you can always count on a tripod to get that kind of shot.
Near sunset. "Well, all I can say is I just got the lens and immediately I got incredible photos of birds flying, mode 2 of course. I don't think I ever got a sharp one panning inflight shots with my old 300 without IS. But my first roll with 100-400 IS I got many good ones." J. D. When I've asked, people have generally reported 2-3 stops improvement when handheld, but also some longer times than that, like 1/4 second at 50mm and 1/8 second at 70mm. I asked because I wondered if IS was more of a gimmick. But damn, it seems to be real, and people are getting sharp shots with it that they couldn't have gotten otherwise.
