FINALLY! 300 f/4L IS in my hands!

Awww, what a fantastic early christmas gift!!! Got a knock on the door this afternoon, and there it was, sitting in it's box, my 300 f/4L IS. I tore that shipping box open with my teeth I was so excited!!! It's absolutely gorgeous!!!

Sold my 70-200 f/4L a little while ago, and used the funds to purchase the 300L IS off another FM member. Man did it take a while though, USPS is ssssllooowwwwwwwww this time of year I guess....

Anyway the IS is so sweet! I've never used an IS lens before and I am just totally baffled by it. Looking through the view finder it's so weird.... it like moves around... and this thing is huge! Way bigger than my 70-200L. Still small though I guess. Very hand holdable, but built like a tank.

I put out three bird feeders and tore up a whole bunch of hot dog buns hoping it'll attract some wild life for tomorrow. I'm hoping for some blue jay's and cardinals.

Well, I don't have any pics from it right now, but I'll post a few from around the house in a few mins, and hopefully some of birds tomorrow.

Oh, and MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!!

I also have this lens; it's terrific.
Merry Christmas to you too.
Jack

Just bought one of these beauties too! Can't wait for mine to arrive soon.

Congratulations ... FedEx has been 10x worse than UPS in my area. Right now I am very aggravated with FedEx.

Got one myself and love it. You'll enjoy your's

pics!

I hope you have budgeted for the 1.4X. With this lens it is great. Some people like the 400 f5.6 better but the IS can't be beat. Especially hand held. I'm going out Monday to try and get some bird photo's with this combination. Enjoy..
Art Schlaman
Canon 20D ,EOS-5D, 35mm f 1.4L, 50mm F1.4. 85mm F1.8,85mm f1.2L, 135mm f2.0L 18-85mm IS, 17-40MM f4L, 135mm soft focus, 100mm Macro, 24-70mm F2.8L
300mm IS F4L, 70-200MM f2.8L IS, 100-400mm IS L, 75-300mm IS,
Sigma 120-300mm f2.8, 1.4XAPO, 2.0XAPO
Tamron 28mm-75mm f 2.8, Tamron 180mm f2.8 macro, 580 EX flash,Mr-14EXMacro Ring Flash, 220EX, EOS3
Canon G6, EOS3
Hasselblad Xpan w/ 30mm and 45mm
Contax G2, w/35-70mm, 21mm, 28mm, 35mm, 45mm, 90mm
Contax Aria, 21mm, 25mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm
Fuji GA645i, GA670III
Epson RD-1 with Zeiss ZM 35mm f 2 and lots of Leica's
Epson P2000 storage device

please post some nice pics with the lens, ive been thinking of picking one up myself.

Congrats and have fun

Dan

Well, I got a few quick picks this afternoon inbetween playing with what Santa brought me. Unfortunately the 100% crop keeps failing to upload at photo bucket so I'll try that again later, but here's the pick,

1/400th, ISO 400, f/5.6

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Wow 35L and 300 f/4L. nice Christmas.

Oh yea!! Bought the 300L IS myself, but I owe santa a very very big thanks for the 35L.