New 10D user (second try)

[pwagner]

OK, I think I've got the image hosting thing squared away, so this is my second try. My apologies for the original post last week with broken link.

I wanted a setup with a long telephoto range for birds as well something I could use around the house. Thus the 10D with the 28-135 IS USM and the 100-400 L IS USM. My previous camera was the Minolta Dimage 7i, which was just hopeless at the long telephoto shots.

Like many people who upgrade to the 10D from an already decent camera, I was worried that my initial, casual, around-the-house results weren't spectacularly better. Over the weekend, though, I took a little trip to the Stanford Foothills for a real life test.

As soon as I saw the results back on my computer, I realized that this setup is AMAZING. The camera body is amazing, the "L" is amazing, and the 28-135 is a pretty big improvement too. For my friends who just count pixels and zoom factor, it's hard to even describe just how much better VALUE the $3000 Canon setup is over the $800 Minolta. Did I mention that the focus speed, focus accuracy, and image stabilizer of the 100-400 "L" is AMAZING?

Did I mention zoom range? How about these two shots of the same scene?

http://homepage.mac.com/pwagner650/FirstWeekend/Palm45Small.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/pwagner650/FirstWeekend/Palm640CropSmall.jpg


Here's a link a page explaing the two above with more detail (and about 800k of data--sorry, modem users):

http://homepage.mac.com/pwagner650/FirstWeekend/


Comments and help are always welcome!

-- Peter Wagner

[Stoneh]

Thats quite impressive, the 2nd picture must surely have been cropped or the two pics are from two different lenses.

Have you got any more pics?

[phuocle]

Peter,

Nice! I can't wait for my 10D to come in next week!!!

How far would you say you were from that palm?

[RedShoesGirl]

Be sure to test the lenses at wide open, especially your zooms.

RSG

[pwagner]

The first picture from the 28-135 IS USM at 28mm. (45mm effective with the 10D). It is the full 6.3 megapixel picture scaled down massively; you are seeing the entire scene. I was quite far away. The second picture is from the 100-400 L IS USM at 400mm. The second picture is cropped and then scaled to about 40% size of the crop. Both shots were taken from the same location; I was sitting down but shot handheld (image stabilizer is great).

If you have a fast internet connection (or are willing to wait a few minutes) follow the link on my first post to see larger version of these two pictures, cammera setting information, and some intermediate zoom shots.