Saturday, July 16, 2005, 3:14:07 PM, Cotty wrote: C> On 16/7/05, Pål Jensen, discombobulated, unleashed:
>>That depends how heavy it is. Noone I know can held a 600mm lens >>still....It is too heavy... :-) C> Agreed. Even a 300 2.8 is pushing it too much. I'm thinking of a 70- C> 200 2.8 zoom, with maybe a teleconverter as well. After half an hour, my C> muscles feel the strain. But it does help on a monopod. I was at the Bush - Putin summit in Slovakia this year, and some photographs required the use of 600mm lens with 1.5x crop body on poorly lit runway at an airport... I didn't get pool access for the airport event, but the colleagues who did talk about 1/30s at max iso *at best*... Later at the summit when pool access was not required (or when we sneaked in <g>), standing for hours holding a monopod with 2x TCd 80-200 2.8 zoom and 1.5x digital during heavy snowing, I would have killed for IS as my hands were shaking so much :) Under all these conditions, IS probably won't make a super-sharp photograph but it might save the day. Frantisek
