Here's a shot at 18mm showing what I saw all the way across the house where attended a party today. The red arrow is pointing to a water bottle. Don't bother clicking to enlarge this one; you can't see the bottle at all at 18mm focal length.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
This is Why You Spend $1500 on A Lens
My dad came by with his new tool. He just got a Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM AF Telepohoto lens to go with his spiffing Canon DSLR. It produces pretty cracking results
Here's a shot at 18mm showing what I saw all the way across the house where attended a party today. The red arrow is pointing to a water bottle. Don't bother clicking to enlarge this one; you can't see the bottle at all at 18mm focal length.
This is the entire frame captured through the fancy-dancy 300mm.
Nothing new, right? I mean, after all it is 300mm. Of course it's zoomed in very close. Your point-and-click can get you this frame. But the $1300 difference between your camera and this lens (which rides on another $1000+ camera) is the details. Go ahead and click this one to see it full size. This is a 100% crop from the above zoomed-in shot.
That right there is crazy. Most cameras can't even make a shot this crisp by getting right up on it in Macro mode, and this thing did it handheld with a flash all the way across a house! This is about as detailed as my testing got, and it really wowed me. If you shoot sports or flowers or whatever, this would be a really great addition to your (increasingly heavy) camera bag.
Here's a shot at 18mm showing what I saw all the way across the house where attended a party today. The red arrow is pointing to a water bottle. Don't bother clicking to enlarge this one; you can't see the bottle at all at 18mm focal length.
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