21st Bday 70-200F/4L Gift and PICS!

[IanBMW]

Well first off this is the most expensive gift I have ever gotten and I practically fell out of my chair when I opened the gift Sunday. I just got around to loading images up on PBASE. So for those of you wondering how the lens performs I put up some unedited full size jpegs on my site. Here are the large versions, originals on site.

http://www.pbase.com/image/42293447/large.jpg
1/160s f/4.5 at 200.0mm iso200

http://www.pbase.com/ianbmw/image/42293462/large.jpg
1/1250s f/4.0 at 200.0mm iso100

http://www.pbase.com/ianbmw/image/42293567/large.jpg
1/800s f/5.0 at 172.0mm iso100

http://www.pbase.com/ianbmw/image/42293696/large.jpg
1/160s f/5.0 at 200.0mm iso100

The thing that gets me is this is without a filter of anykind. The color saturation is great, and on a cloudy day without any filter i'm surprised. My 100 f/2.8 Macro doesn't even pull this kind of saturation usually.

[Wazza]

Excellent gift for a 21st. I wasn't that big into photography on my 21st, 10months ago, so I asked for a stereo.

Nice first few shots with it also. They're going to be a beaut to edit them and bring out the colours further. :)

[Cadwell]

Nice shots, nice lens and your signatures out of date ;) Oh, and belated happy birthday.

[cfcRebel]

You are so lucky. Now, i need a rich uncle to buy me such nice gift for my b-day at end of this month!
Oh no, not uncle Sam. I did not get enough return from him to buy even a 28mm f2.8.

[IanBMW]

No lie, I'm getting back a whole $150...what a cheap uncle sam he is. Altho I shouldn't complain, last year he asked for $75 back that punk. Oh and thnx for the heads up on the Sig :)

[cmM]

I got a bottle of Johnny Walker for my 21st :-P

Great pics ;) It's one L of a lens