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Wildlife with G3 and 100-300

Started Mar 17, 2013 | Discussions thread
howardfuhrman Veteran Member • Posts: 4,153
Re: Wildlife with G3 and 100-300

The photos are well composed and with interesting subjects, but to me the photos are OK but a little soft. It could be my monitor or it could be that you hand held them (but your shutter speed seems to be high enough), used too high an f stop, the AF may have focused in the wrong spot. From my experience I have a lot of difficulty hand holding a long lens to focus on anything--a small movement on my part and I cannot find my subject without making the lens wider.  Again, I want to be constructive not ciritcal, the photos do not appear to tack sharp.  I used a G3 until I upgraded to a G5 and got excellent IQ with the 20 1.7, 45 1.8 and 7-14mm. My results with the 45-200 were marginal and I have never used the 100-300, but have read it is a better lens than the 45-200.

My suggestions is keep experimenting with the G3 100-300 combination.  Use a tripod with the stabilization turned off and see and evaluate your results, open the lens, use a lower ISO, shoot at 250mm rather than 300mm (I saw you used various focal lengths in the photos that you posted).  Be sure that your lens is clean.

Good luck and thanks for posting.

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