post your 75-300mm IS pics

Curtis Gulick · May 9, 2004

I'd like to see some 100% crops of various shots at 300mm from this lens. I have one and i am a few days away from purchasing a 70-200L because mine is very soft on the 200-300mm end.

Here is a pic of it at 300mm:

Curtis Gulick · May 9, 2004

here is a 100% crop from today. at 300mm with IS on and 1/400th f5 i think.

Curtis Gulick said:
I'd like to see some 100% crops of various shots at 300mm from this
lens. I have one and i am a few days away from purchasing a
70-200L because mine is very soft on the 200-300mm end.

Here is a pic of it at 300mm:

The Krakken · May 9, 2004

Those images look terribly out of focus.

Curtis Gulick said:
Curtis Gulick said:

I'd like to see some 100% crops of various shots at 300mm from this
lens. I have one and i am a few days away from purchasing a
70-200L because mine is very soft on the 200-300mm end.

Here is a pic of it at 300mm:

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Curtis Gulick · May 9, 2004

Well, that may be my problem then. Would this be an example of "back focusing" ? Using AF they were in focus according to the camera.

My kit lens as well as my 50mm 1.8f look amazingly sharp.

The Krakken said:
Those images look terribly out of focus.

caterpillar · May 9, 2004

Regardless whether it is a crop or not, it is bad. I never had such softness with mine. I believe your copy is bad.

The 75-300 IS is not going to have the same ooomph as the 70-200 f4L, but with PS, you can squeeze it a bit to get it to be L-like. But your copy of the 75-300 IS seems to be a bad one and no PS is going to fix that.

My photosharing site seems to be down now, so I can't link photos to show you how far off your copy is from a good one. Maybe later. But I assure you, a good copy of that lens is good enough 4 its price.

If you do decide to get the 70-200 f4L, just make sure you test it well as there are backfocus problems with some copies with respect to the 300D/10D. You don't want to jump from the frying pan into the fire.

Curtis Gulick said:
here is a 100% crop from today. at 300mm with IS on and 1/400th f5
i think.

You can't have f5.0 at 300mm. That is f5.6.

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M Irwin · May 9, 2004

...but rather just horribly unsharp. I've seen lenses like this and it's not a situation with user mis-focus but just a plain bad lens IMHO.

Curtis Gulick said:
My kit lens as well as my 50mm 1.8f look amazingly sharp.

The Krakken said:

Those images look terribly out of focus.

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caterpillar · May 9, 2004

Curtis,

My photosharing site slowed down a bit, maybe heavy traffic, but it cleared up now. Here's my picture with the lens at close to 300mm (280-290mm, f5.6, 1/60, ISO 800). Forced to shoot in bad conditions (overcast and 5pm light) and do it quickly too.

Some sharpening, curves have already been done, but definitely something that has been salvaged well. BTW, about 30% of the image has already been cropped off to "zoom" in on the boy.

This one is at ISO 400 at 280-300mm, f6.3. about 1/320.

All of these shots are not close shots but shots taken at 100ft or more, and close to 300mm if not 300mm and wide open or near wide open. These are not the best the lens can give us at these settings.

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Curtis Gulick · May 9, 2004

Ok, thanks for the pics!

Something weird is up with it.

Reha · May 9, 2004

Hi Curtis,

I just purchased that lens because I could not justify the price for the
70-300DO....I had the same problem of out of focus, blurry, etc.
However, I had Canon UV filter....once I took that off, the pictures
were clear and sharp...so, in case you have a filter in front of the lens,
try to take it off and then reshoot....let me know, Reha

Curtis Gulick said:
I'd like to see some 100% crops of various shots at 300mm from this
lens. I have one and i am a few days away from purchasing a
70-200L because mine is very soft on the 200-300mm end.

Here is a pic of it at 300mm:

Jarl Sandberg · May 9, 2004

From a football cup this weekend. Not the best of the shots I got, but one of them at 300mm. In-camera sharpness set to 0 and aparture is 5.6.

Most pictures om this gallery (lot of them) is taken with the 75-300IS (some are taken with the 50/1.8)

http://w1.920.telia.com/~u92035800/

--jalle

Curtis Gulick said:
I'd like to see some 100% crops of various shots at 300mm from this
lens. I have one and i am a few days away from purchasing a
70-200L because mine is very soft on the 200-300mm end.

Here is a pic of it at 300mm:

pahvi · May 9, 2004

Looks like you have a dirty filter or a dirty lens. I think you can get pretty decent results with this lens with bit of effort.

Not crops but still:

@200mm f8 iso200 1/250

@300mm f5.6, iso200 1/640

Daniel Chui · May 10, 2004

Hey there Caterpillar!

I recently stumbled upon a few of your posts and I find them very informative. I appreciate that you take the time out to share your knowledge.

Now, I have a couple of questions on my selection of a DSLR, as I am going to be upgrading from my Sony f707 soon. I've narrowed down my choices to the 300d and the 10d (d70 out of the runnings due to higher lens cost). My understanding is that you use the 300d for portraits, right? I will letter my questions to make them easier to answer.

A) What has been your general experience with 300d and taking portraits?

B) Have the limitations of the 300d held you back in your portrait experience?

C) I don't really understand the 4 buffer system of the 300d. Is it very slow? I don't need to take a bunch of incredibly fast shots (as per d70), but it would be nice to have some more information on 300d burst.

Thanks Caterpillar!

Chui

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Robert P Miller · May 10, 2004

No problem with my lens. Not as sharp as an "L" I'm sure, but quite nice for the price. That said, I'm likely going to sell it to help pay for a 100-400 IS because I want the further range.

Another one at the zoo, straight from camera. A crop, and a link to the original.
10D, highest quality jpg,ISO200,1/500/sec, F7.1
http://www.pbase.com/image/28821846/original

Best,
Robert

Terry Sessford · May 10, 2004

I sold my 75-300mm IS last Friday because the images it produced were far too soft at the 300mm end - I was always disappointed with the results. My 100-400mm L IS at 400mm is much sharper than was my 75-300mm IS at 300mm, and so I found that I was always using the former in preference to the latter, hence I sold the 75-300mm!

Terry.

Curtis Gulick said:
I'd like to see some 100% crops of various shots at 300mm from this
lens. I have one and i am a few days away from purchasing a
70-200L because mine is very soft on the 200-300mm end.

Here is a pic of it at 300mm:

Sparkmeister · May 10, 2004

Here are a couple of mine. I'll say up front I'm very satisfied with this lens.

I've posted these as 1 to 1 crops from the original. Then I've posted a version, for comparison, with some post processing including USM sharpening.

1/800 - F-10 ISO-800 300mm Manual Focus

1/320 F-10 ISO-100 300mm Manual Focus

Note: Although both of these happen to be manual focus, I have had great results with auto focus as well.

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Eric Sorensen · May 10, 2004

Terry Sessford said:
I sold my 75-300mm IS last Friday because the images it produced
were far too soft at the 300mm end - I was always disappointed with
the results.

I agree with that. Mine is blury at 300mm, but is surprisingly sharp at 75-135 with nice bokeh too. I use it for portraits a lot at 75mm. At 300mm it just doesn't do good at all. Someday I will get the 100-400L to replace it when I can afford the extra $'s.
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Eric Sorensen · May 10, 2004

Those look about as good as my lens is capable of. I just must be too critical, becuase I think that's just too soft - especially at those high F-stop settings. To me, if you back that lens off to 75mm and shoot at F8 ISO 100, the 100% crops are very sharp and look like night and day when compared to 300mm.
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Giclee1 · May 10, 2004

So the usable range seems to be 70-135... That means keep my 28-135IS and blow the bank on a Sigma 50-500.....

Eric Sorensen · May 10, 2004

Giclee1 said:
So the usable range seems to be 70-135... That means keep my
28-135IS and blow the bank on a Sigma 50-500.....

Depends on your definition of "usable". If you think those two bird pictures (at F10!!) are usable then you will be OK. If you are buying the 75-300 for the 300mm, get something else. That is my advice, for what it's worth. Bigma is very attractive for the price, and highly recommended in this forum.

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Giclee1 · May 10, 2004

Eric Sorensen said:
Giclee1 said:

So the usable range seems to be 70-135... That means keep my
28-135IS and blow the bank on a Sigma 50-500.....

Click to expand...

Depends on your definition of "usable". If you think those two
bird pictures (at F10!!) are usable then you will be OK. If you
are buying the 75-300 for the 300mm, get something else. That is
my advice, for what it's worth. Bigma is very attractive for the
price, and highly recommended in this forum.

Yeah it is my real close choice right now... but at 4 pounds.... Be like carrying a big gulp filled with cement....

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