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Pictures taken using EF300mm f/4L IS USM. I use crop body XTi.
Ashy Crowned Sparrow Lark
SandPiper
Indian Roller
Painted Stork
Ashy Crowned Sparrow Lark
SandPiper
Indian Roller
Painted Stork
Marsu42 said:wickidwombat said:this guy didn't want his picture taken
Since we're beyond karma and "my gear is better" I hope we can discuss this in cool blood ... so: For this image size, I think the sharpness of the best zone (the hairs) is like than my 70-300L = 480mm without tc. But it's hard to say due to motion blur because 1/500s is the absolute minimum for 420mm, I try to have at least 1/1000 for shots of this kind - for this reason and if I'd have shot this one I'd have scrapped it for bad iq.
Which makes me want to point out again: A very good or even the best tc at lest at decent iso seems to be an aps-c sensor, and even if I ever upgrade to ff I'm likely to keep my crop camera for tele shots.
Wild said:That's some spot on focus right there! I could've tried that shot 20 times with my T1i and unless I got incredibly lucky, would never have walked away with a photo so sharp and clean. Time for some new glass I guess (Ignoring my serious 5d mark iii lust)
Anyways just out of curiosity, was body was this on? And were you using AI Servo? Great shot btw ;D
Caps18 said:I'll have to post a picture I took last week of a Koala Bear with my 300mm F/4 with Canon 1.4x (5Dm2) to see how they compare.
wickidwombat said:I wish they would release a new version of this lens with the new hybrid 4 stop IS
you can notice the older IS is quite slow and clunky
it's compact size and weight make it awesome and I love the built in lens hood.
TexPhoto said:I loaned mine to a friend who took it on a Safari. Called me from Africa to say the lens was broken and would not zoom.
LOL i think tex was making a joke about his friend not understanding its a prime. lack of zoom etcMarsu42 said:TexPhoto said:I loaned mine to a friend who took it on a Safari. Called me from Africa to say the lens was broken and would not zoom.
... which proves that contrary to popular opinion, even L lenses (or metal bodies) are not indestructible and it's a good idea to have some kind of backup available if your safari relies on it - or you can take three Tamron lenses for the same price and weight of one Canon and have one overrun by your truck, the next one eaten by a lion and still go on shooting
marekjoz said:Is this lens really so NOT popular?
neuroanatomist said:marekjoz said:Is this lens really so NOT popular?
It's a very nice lens, if a little long in the tooth. I had one for a while, sold it after getting the 100-400L (wanted longer than 300mm, and the 300mm + 1.4xII wasn't quite as good as the 100-400 from an IQ standpoint).
Rebel T1i, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM, 1/500 s, f/4, ISO 200
K-amps said:Looks like you had to PP this a bit to get some details out of it.
K-amps said:By the way did you switch out your 1.4 mk.2 with a mk.3? Did you notice much difference?
neuroanatomist said:It was straight from camera JPG (literally - I was still shooting just JPG in those days, not RAW). I did shoot it with +1 EC, and the image is cropped a bit.