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Some guarded shots with 550D + EFS 55-250

Started Jun 23, 2017 | Discussions thread
AnthonyL Veteran Member • Posts: 3,686
Re: Some guarden shots with 550D + EFS 55-250

Wave forest wrote:

AnthonyL wrote:

I keep looking for more reach but you have to go a long way to beat that lens.

If you really want to get the most out of it use Canon's DPP that came with the camera (or download from Canon support site), shoot RAW and make sure you've installed the Digital Lens Optimiser - you'll have near "L" quality!

I think you can afford to close down a stop as well on those shots. The STM I believe is a little better, certainly I've found the 18-55 STM better than the vanilla 18-55 IS.

Thank you for the nice tip. I actually tried it. It's a good one.

Do you have any experience to share? I just set 77 as that in Canon tutorial.

To be honest I've not used it as much as I'd like - mainly because it is too much of a hog on processing power and disk space on my ageing, but soon to be replaced, laptop.  But the occasional time I've tried it on better photos I've been pleased.

PS - please respond at the bottom of the post and not the top - it gets quite confusing otherwise to follow who said what when.

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Canon EOS 700D Canon EF-S 10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM +5 more
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