New samples from the Canon 28-300L

[taber]

I just put up more sample shots using the 10D and Canon 28-300L in full resolution JPEG for people to chew on. http://www.taberwest.com/review/reviews.htm Feel free to download and zoom in and out all you want. Be warned though, they are large files.

[Spatch]

Hi Taber,

Have you applied any sharpening in Photoshop with these??

Cheers
Mark.

[drisley]

There is more purple fringing on that first bike shot than on the 85mm F1.8 wide open :shock:

[Tom W]

There is more purple fringing on that first bike shot than on the 85mm F1.8 wide open :shock:

There's more chrome on that first bike shot than on anything I've seen in a while. I'm not going to defend nor scorn the lens, but I'm guessing that it would be difficult for any lens to deal with that much directly reflected sunlight without some coloration. The chrome is essentially a mirror which makes this the equivalent of shooting directly into something nearly equal in brightness to the sun.

I wonder if there is some blooming on the sensor as well. I'm not sure what that looks like, though I've read that its similar to PF.

This would be a good case for a side-by-side test of 2 or 3 lenses IMHO.

[ron chappel]

Thanks for the examples Taber.
Yeah i agree,it's abit hard to tell from that shot.A comparison is needed

Now that two forum members have this lens we should soon work it all out :D

[taber]

Hi Mark, no I didn't unsharp mask in PS for these, but I do have sharpening in the camera turned up. You can see though, that at 5.6 they are softer than at 16. The great thing though, is how low of a shutter speed you can get handheld with this lens.

Taber

[taber]

Hi Mark, no I didn't unsharp mask in PS for these, but I do have sharpening in the camera turned up. You can see though, that at 5.6 they are softer than at 16. The great thing though, is how low of a shutter speed you can get handheld with this lens.

Taber

[Belmondo]

I posted this in another thread, but it seems relevant in case some of you missed it. Bear in mind that my statements are based on extremely limited experience with the camera/lens combination, and could very possibly change.

Although I don't have a lot of experience with this lens yet, just scanning through the luminous-landscape review tends to confirm my initial impressions of it.

It looks like I've bought a very good, versatile lens, but not an amazaingly good one. Where picture quality really matters, and when I have the anticipation time to do so, I will probably be using other lenses. Still, it does what I want it to which is to give me a huge range of focal length in a single package.

I think there will be a market for this lens, but not a huge one. (unless they lower the price and/or cure some of the CA/fringing problems at the larger aperture settings). It makes much more sense as a sub-$2,000 lens, sorry to say.

Just being honest.