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Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens v/s. Tamron AF 70-300mm Dif/4-5.6
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I am going for the Canon EOS 350D but still undecided on buying the lens. I have an interest in aviation photography and planning to pursue it as a hobby. Out of the below two, which lens should I go for: - Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens - Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6 Thanx. |
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Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens v/s. Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:42:01 -0800 (PST), wrote:
Hi, I am going for the Canon EOS 350D but still undecided on buying the lens. I have an interest in aviation photography and planning to pursue it as a hobby. Out of the below two, which lens should I go for: - Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens - Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6 Thanx. Neither: Canon 70-300 mm EF f/4-5.6 IS USM Bill |
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Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens v/s. Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6
"Bill" wrote in message ... On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:42:01 -0800 (PST), wrote: Hi, I am going for the Canon EOS 350D but still undecided on buying the lens. I have an interest in aviation photography and planning to pursue it as a hobby. Out of the below two, which lens should I go for: - Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens - Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6 Thanx. Neither: Canon 70-300 mm EF f/4-5.6 IS USM Bill, I'll second that. I have that one as well as the 17-85 f/4-5.6 IS USM Both are great lenses. Marcel |
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Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens v/s. Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6
"Celcius" wrote in message
... "Bill" wrote in message ... On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:42:01 -0800 (PST), wrote: Hi, I am going for the Canon EOS 350D but still undecided on buying the lens. I have an interest in aviation photography and planning to pursue it as a hobby. Out of the below two, which lens should I go for: - Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens - Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6 Thanx. Neither: Canon 70-300 mm EF f/4-5.6 IS USM Bill, I'll second that. I have that one as well as the 17-85 f/4-5.6 IS USM Both are great lenses. Marcel I'd say good, not great. And I've never been really satisfied with its results. I rented the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L for a month (http://www.tfrog93.com/digitals/lens...L/100_400L.htm) and was very sorry to return it and go back to my 70-300. If I had it to do over again, I'd have waited until I had the extra money to buy this lens, instead of the 70-300. (Yeah, sure, like I could have waited.) But the one the OP is talking about... is that the one that retails for $189? If you read the reviews at B&H, it seems that the people who bought it like it. Perhaps because they have nothing else to compare it to? dwight |
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Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens v/s. Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5
"Andrew MacPherson" wrote in message
ddress_disguised... (dwight) wrote: I rented the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L for a month (http://www.tfrog93.com/digitals/lens...L/100_400L.htm) and was very sorry to return it and go back to my 70-300. If I had it to do over again, I'd have waited until I had the extra money to buy this lens, instead of the 70-300. Is the 100-400L really that impressive for action work? I suppose it must be popular (airshows are littered with them!) for a reason. Hey, I'm just a hack wannabe, but that was the sharpest glass I've played with yet. Assuming it's a bright sunny day, that f/4.5-5.6 should be more than capable. I'm currently planning to jump ship from Pentax purely because I want the best possible (within a good, but not infinite budget!) autofocus performance at airshows. My K100D struggled last season... though it's a fine camera for everything else. Anyway, I currently have a variety of options... 1) 40D + 100-400L (expensive and longer at the wide end than I'd like) 2) 40D + Bigma (the range I want, but no IS and of debatable quality) 3) D300 + 70-300 VRII (well respected lens at a good price, making up for the D300 premium, and more pixels on the D300 gives me additional 'crop zoom' to make up for the missing 100mm at the long end. Later I'd like an 80-400 *if* Nikon update it to focus faster). At the moment the Nikon is luring it towards me with that wonderful screen (ideal on a long day in the field to see if your technique is working), state of the art focusing, and -- last but not least -- the very well respected 18-200VR zoom, which seems like a great lens for the 95% of the year when I'm not waving my camera at the sky. It's tough making a decision though. The 100-400L keeps enticing me back to the 40D solution, but part of me would prefer the relative anonymity of a black Nikon lens to being just another bloke waving a white lens in the air. There's also no obvious Canon equivalent to the 18-200VR (for good reason, admittedly; it's an ambitious range if you want quality). Sorry, I'm thinking out loud in someone else's thread. My apologies for going off on a tangent! Andrew McP PS Interesting 100-400 page, thanks. Thank YOU. We have a small airfield about half a mile away from the house, and our back yard seems to be on the approach. If I remember my student pilot days correctly, this parade of Cessnas and Pipers comes over us at between 800 and 1,100 feet. Every once in a while, we get a very slow Cub or a dazzling red biplane or some other exotic, and the airfield hosts an annual helicopter show, too. I've taken hundreds of shots with the 70-300 (a few samples are at: http://www.tfrog93.com/digitals/imag...nsp/transp.htm) and ...eh. Like I say, if I had it to do over again, I would have waited until I could have plunked the $1300 down on that 100-400, instead of jumping on the 70-300. I currently have: the kit lens (of course) the 50mm f/1.8 bang for the buck the 70-300 journeyman telephoto zoom and now the 100mm macro. I'll be playing with a 400mm prime for the next couple of weeks, and then I want to look at the 17-40mm f/4L... See, I think that might be the way to go. The 400mm for birds in flight, the 17-40 for walking about the airshow. dwight |
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Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens v/s. Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5
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Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens v/s. Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6
"dwight" wrote in message . .. "Celcius" wrote in message ... "Bill" wrote in message ... On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:42:01 -0800 (PST), wrote: Hi, I am going for the Canon EOS 350D but still undecided on buying the lens. I have an interest in aviation photography and planning to pursue it as a hobby. Out of the below two, which lens should I go for: - Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens - Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6 Thanx. Neither: Canon 70-300 mm EF f/4-5.6 IS USM Bill, I'll second that. I have that one as well as the 17-85 f/4-5.6 IS USM Both are great lenses. Marcel I'd say good, not great. And I've never been really satisfied with its results. I rented the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L for a month (http://www.tfrog93.com/digitals/lens...L/100_400L.htm) and was very sorry to return it and go back to my 70-300. If I had it to do over again, I'd have waited until I had the extra money to buy this lens, instead of the 70-300. (Yeah, sure, like I could have waited.) But the one the OP is talking about... is that the one that retails for $189? If you read the reviews at B&H, it seems that the people who bought it like it. Perhaps because they have nothing else to compare it to? dwight Ok, Dwight, but how much does it cost new? |
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Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens v/s. Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6
"Celcius" wrote in message
... "dwight" wrote in message . .. "Celcius" wrote in message ... "Bill" wrote in message ... On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:42:01 -0800 (PST), wrote: Hi, I am going for the Canon EOS 350D but still undecided on buying the lens. I have an interest in aviation photography and planning to pursue it as a hobby. Out of the below two, which lens should I go for: - Canon EF 75-300mm USM III f/4-5.6 Lens - Tamron AF 70-300mm Di f/4-5.6 Thanx. Neither: Canon 70-300 mm EF f/4-5.6 IS USM Bill, I'll second that. I have that one as well as the 17-85 f/4-5.6 IS USM Both are great lenses. Marcel I'd say good, not great. And I've never been really satisfied with its results. I rented the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L for a month (http://www.tfrog93.com/digitals/lens...L/100_400L.htm) and was very sorry to return it and go back to my 70-300. If I had it to do over again, I'd have waited until I had the extra money to buy this lens, instead of the 70-300. (Yeah, sure, like I could have waited.) But the one the OP is talking about... is that the one that retails for $189? If you read the reviews at B&H, it seems that the people who bought it like it. Perhaps because they have nothing else to compare it to? dwight Ok, Dwight, but how much does it cost new? The 100-400? That's the cheap one, only $1,300. ) |
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