300 f/4 iS L - 24X magnification, I wanna see yours!

Who needs a macro lens now?!
I wanna see butterflies, flowers, and other small stuff taken with this lens. Apparently the old 300 f/4 did not have this magnification, nor the minimum focusing distance. Although I bought it mostly for birds and while realizing it's way too short for most birds, I also discovered that I don't have to crawl in wet grass anymore, in order to take nice closeups, so let's see those shots!

Just a few from my recent outing with this lens:

Thanks for the post! I have had my eye on this lens for a few months now and am picking it up next week. Another post to reaffirm my decision is always nice

OK, while I'm impressed with the 300/4 L IS, it's not 24x magnification, it's only 0.24x, and it won't do this:

Yes Rudi, You are right, it won't do that, but it gets pretty close, considering I was about 10-meters away.
Something similar from the same shoot:

Oh, I know the 300mm is amazing, but the little Daisy in my shot is less than an inch across! Anyway, I'm glad you started this thread, because I have a 300/4 L IS coming soon (my second, the first was the non-IS model, and I loved that lens!).

Good stuff Rudi, The first shot, with the yellow flowers was shot across a creek which I could not cross, unless I walk like 500 meters, up to a bridge. (Try that with a macro)
I did have a 100mm f.2.8 macro before, which I sold last October.

LOL, I did that twice! I had the old non-USM model which I sold, then bought the 100mm Macro USM, which I sold when someone offered me way too much money for it. So this is my third 100mm Macro, and I'm keeping this one!

Cool shots Ryan!

Ryan, how far away from the subject were you for those?

Red Cloud wrote in post #7887771
Ryan, how far away from the subject were you for those?

both were from aroiund 5 feet, basically as close as i could focus. They were both shot at 420mm with the 1.4x tc and wide open at 5.6

2 more at 300mm this time

Hi Ken, How do you find the TC, as far a quality loss, wide open?

From the farm:


f/8 ISO-160 1/125 handheld, thru a fence.