Canon 300mm 2.8 IS - is the IS suppose to be pretty noisy?

Seems to work great, getting clear shots at 1/100 handheld. but the IS is rather noisy. Not clunky but a definate loud whirling while it's operating.

My previous canon IS experience is you can hear it when you put your ear up to the lens but you can hear this thing from a foot or two away.

The lens is a UY date if that matters.

Dont know the lens but IS is noizy sometimes. I guess the newer versions of IS are a bit more quite. Still you can hear it.

Is this 300 2.8 v2?

What previous IS experience? My experience has been that the bigger lenses have noisier IS which shouldn't really be too surprising.

Talley,

The old generation IS units in those lenses are louder. It is not abnormal!

The new ones are very quiet, though.

Good deal. Just checking.

It's a V1. My previous IS experience has been: 70-200 F4 IS, 70-200 2.8 MK2, 24-105, 28-135, 70-300L, 100-400L

This 300 is about twice as loud as any other model. Works good though so I shouldn't complain.

Talley wrote in post #16733324
Good deal. Just checking.

It's a V1. My previous IS experience has been: 70-200 F4 IS, 70-200 2.8 MK2, 24-105, 28-135, 70-300L, 100-400L

This 300 is about twice as loud as any other model. Works good though so I shouldn't complain.

Yeah haha the first time ive heard IS i was thinking my lens is going to self-destruct

I can certainly hear all my lenses IS, some noisier than others but they are certainly not silent, none of them.

My 300L F4 IS is the same. First generation IS is pretty noisy.

If you put your ears close to it you can hear the whirling pretty loud, especially shooting in quiet environment like wild life. The new 200 f2 is a bit quieter but you can still hear it.

I guess it's all relative, seems pretty quiet to me

It is what you get used to. The first time I pressed the shutter in 2006 I thought the lenses innards fell apart.

My 300 2.8 is a bit loud, but I would never call it horrible or anything. I tried the Mk II and it's a bit more quiet, with the newer IS.

I have the lens. Its loader a bit on the 5D3 than the 1D4, but yeah, its a bit load. I don't know what is the difference, but thats the way it is.
I also noticed this with other people's lenses I encountered.

Mine was louder than my other lenses with IS.