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The magic of the EF 75-300mm

Started Jul 29, 2016 | Discussions thread
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Re: The magic of the EF 75-300mm

Steve,

I do not have any STM lenses or the EF 75-300mm lens, so I can't really pin point what you are saying about the magic. But I've found that predominantly the magic is what the photographer produces with the gear that he or she has, followed by post processing. Unless your camera or lenses are faulty, you might concentrate more on subject matter, techniques, the use of lighting and composition etc. Gear is important but as long as you have equipment that is reasonably up-to-date you should be able to do well.

But small differences might be important to you. So maybe you could take pictures with both telephoto lenses, if your cousin would loan you back the other lens for a few days. You could make a better judgment of the differences that way. I did that once with my Olympus and Canon DSLR cameras & lenses a little over four years ago when I viewed the photos side by side. Surprisingly, there wasn't that much difference with the colors or general image quality (when viewing them as resized images of landscape scenes in bright lighting). But the Canon DSLR cameras had quite an advantage in megapixels because it was much newer technology (and other things as well).

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