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100-300 vs. 50-200+1.4TC: surprised!

Started Jun 1, 2014 | Discussions thread
X_Holger Regular Member • Posts: 375
Re: 100-300 vs. 50-200+1.4TC: surprised!

When I crop an image with Photoshop (vers. CS6) and save those cropped images all Exifs are removed by Photoshop...

The shutterspeeds were 1/30 sec at F6.3 / F6.7, 1/20 at F8 with the EC-20.

I stopped down the 50.200 + EC-14 for comparable F-stops, the 75-300 is not faster than F6.7 at 300mm

In my opinion AS0 does not make sense on a heavy tripod.

I made several pictures at each F-Stop with different F-Stops, F4.9, F5.6, F6.3 (F6.7), F7.1, F8 and F9.

The results are consistent and there are no visible ShutterShock issues.

All camera adjustments have been the same and I see no disadvatage to use jpegs straight out of the camera in comparison to processed RAW-files, in contrary.

All I am saying is that the 50-200 SWD plus EC-14 is sharper than the Olympus 75-300 /4.8-6.7 at roughly the same aperture value at a distance of 3 meters to the subject and that I doubt that the Panasonic 100-300 will behave much differently.

I owned the Panasonic 100-300 for one year before I sold it and at a distance of three meters at 300mm there was no visible advantage compared to the Olympus 75-300.

The pictures of luisforit taken with the 50-200 + EC-14 look unusually soft and I have the impression that something is wrong with his shots.

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