75-300 IS Sample Shot

[Paul_O]

There have been a lot of telephoto lens questions recently so I thought it appropriate to include a couple of samples using my 75-300mm IS lens. Optically I believe it to be similar to the 75-300mm III lens.

This photo has only very minor sharpening applied in Elements and was very good "out of the box".

Paul

http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/503/3020seagull1A_Large_-med.jpg?9945

100% Crop
http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/500/3020gull100_crop.jpg?6961

[pradeep1]

I have this lens. It's passable with a good hood and some touchup in post editing.

[ron chappel]

Your pics are a good example of a 75-300 lens at it's best-
And the good thing about the IS version is that it can be at it's best for a much larger percentage of shots,due to the image stability/ability to use small apertures most of the time

I'm very keen to try mine (it's at least a week away) against my supposedly optically better 100-300.The result will be very interesting :)

[Ogrt48]

I've read at this forum and a few others that the IS 75-300 is actually softer than the none IS version.

[Deckyon]

Post the unsharpened photos. I would like to see raw data, not edited data. I played with this lens on Sunday and was somewhat impressed, but I still take my 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS even with the 2x or 1.4x Extender II's. I would like to see unedited images from the lens.

[BrandonSi]

I played with this lens on Sunday and was somewhat impressed, but I still take my 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS even with the 2x or 1.4x Extender II's.

I would probably take a $1600 lens over a $390 lens myself.. apples/oranges. :wink:

[Paul_O]

I was surprised at the shot too and am quite happy with it. Here's a 100% crop of the original file. Just goes to show that the lens is quite capable of taking sharp pics in the right conditions.

http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/500/3020untouched_100_crop-med.jpg?8511

Paul

[ron chappel]

Post the unsharpened photos. I would like to see raw data, not edited data. I played with this lens on Sunday and was somewhat impressed, but I still take my 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS even with the 2x or 1.4x Extender II's. I would like to see unedited images from the lens.

What's wrong with edited photo's?I think you are worrying too much about this
ALL images can be sharpened-the difference is that pics from the best lenses can be sharpened far more without looking stupid.I have some pics from a cheap sigma 100-300 DL that look worse if any attempt is made at sharpening!

Of course when making direct comparisons between lenses one should allways say if any editing has been done

[pradeep1]

This phenomena is called pixel-peeping, I believe. 8)