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upgrade from EF70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM to 70-300mm f/4-5.6l IS USM

Started Jun 28, 2013 | Discussions thread
Lemming51
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Re: upgrade from EF70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM to 70-300mm f/4-5.6l IS USM

Mosh wrote:

I'm an amateur photographer and I mainly shoot indoors - friends and family, and outdoors - scenery and wildlife when traveling.  I currently use the 70-300 DO on an aincent 20D and I'm about to purchase 6D, my first full frame DSLR (with the 24-105L lens). Since I'm already stretching my budget I was wondering how essential it is, in terms of image quality, to upgrade the 70-300 DO lens to an L lens.

I doubt it is 'essential'.  I would try the DO with the new camera, then decide if it meets your needs.  Pixel-peeping 20mp at 100% may reveal the DO's shortcomings more readily than at 8mp, but at normal image sizes I'll bet you're going to see improvement with that lens over the 20D.

The new camera gives you access lens aberration corrections in-camera (vignetting and CA) or in DPP (vignetting, distortion, and CA) that were not available with the 20D.  However, the advanced Digital Lens Optimizaiton in DPP does not have corrections for the 70-300 DO (yet) but does for the 70-300L and 100-400L.

IMHO YMMV

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