EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Review WOW!

Alternate views in a friend's garden...

Can't even step into my own garden without being hassled! They don't call 'em "noisy" for nothing...............​methinks the bugger doth protest too much!

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bidkev wrote in post #18407378
Can't even step into my own garden without being hassled! They don't call 'em "noisy" for nothing...............​methinks the bugger doth protest too much!

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Ha... Look at that dude lol

Seen those dudes up around Cairns, and yeah they do make a racket. Never got such exposures, just more like silhouettes. Look like out of dino days.

Great shots Kev

smythie wrote in post #18408057
Great shots Kev

Thanks mate. Dunno what's going on with the season here but I normally only see these in spring/summer. All my aloes are in flower early and the grevilleas haven't stopped flowering all year. I even saw a scarlet honeyeater on the grevillea yesterday but it had gone by the time I went back inside for the camera. The cam netting's gone up on the pergola just in case everything visits early this year but it's looking that way.

Running the pipe

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I hate shooting over water on a hot day with a long lens but any shot is better than no shot I guess.

USS Ronald Reagan docked at Port of Brisbane, Australia. Unfortunately, this was the closest we were allowed to get which was the other side of the river

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Does anyone use this lens for sports?

Deiseman wrote in post #18409684
Does anyone use this lens for sports?

Yes. Works good for day games. Don't even bother under the lights. And you won't quite get the subject/background separation that you would get using the long F/2.8 primes.

I have a lot of sports photos taken with it in my gallery.

Doc

Yeah I shot a night game using my 300L F4 IS and that day I learned what the meaning of a fast lens was. I wished I had one more stop as I was maxed out with ISO. Even at 1/500 I was getting hand and foot motion blur that showed a little movement which was not al bad. It would have been impossible to freeze that.

However that being said with every new body release high ISO capabilities improve. Even then I would still prefer a faster lens. If I were to shoot another night game I would use my 70-200 2.8. I shoot my buddies indoor hockey games with my 2.8. If had have no other choice I'm not afraid to shoot at very high ISO's.

And it depends on the sport - it would be excellent for panning shots of cycling, for example (or I assume it would, but haven't tried). That's a whole different beast from field sports though.

LonelyBoy wrote in post #18409806
And it depends on the sport - it would be excellent for panning shots of cycling, for example (or I assume it would, but haven't tried). That's a whole different beast from field sports though.

Or chess...

Imagine missing the shot in a chess match!