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Just picked up the 100-300 ii

Started Mar 12, 2018 | Discussions thread
wilkin New Member • Posts: 1
Re: Just picked up the 100-300 ii

I have had my copy for about a month and am also, generally pleased. Excellent image quality and reach for the price. I really appreciate the weather sealing. I live in South Dakota and this has been the year of never ending winter. I have shot in snow and rain that would have typically kept me inside. My single big complaint would be flimyness and feel of the manual focus ring - its truly awful. Very stiff. The ring is plastic and even with its ribs, its slippery. When you grip it tight enough to turn it, the plastic ring compresses ever so slightly, which creates even more friction to keep the ring from turning. It's much better if you wrap your whole hand around the ring (applying even pressure around the circumference) and turn with your wrist, but that just feels awkward. I finally found that placing a wide, flat rubber band around the ring made it grippy enough to turn the ring without compressing it, allowing you to focus with your fingertips. It's still much more stiff than the 12-60 f4.0-5.6 zoom that seems to otherwise be of about the same build quality. Fortunately, the autofocus seems to be excellent. I'm firmly in the midst of geezerdom and have yet to find in the digital world, a lens with the smooth focusing of the old Canon FD lenses. They are probably out there...for a price.

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