Jason W
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 p.2 #2 · Help Me Pick A Lens To Rent! | |
Well, I just spent the day at the Shell Houston Open with the 17-55 IS and the 70-300 IS. Conditions were awful - extreme overcast and bouts of rain. Thank God golf umbrellas are big!
Anyway, I had the 70-300 IS on my 30D the whole day. I'm really starting to not like this lens - I think mine has a focusing issue at the long end. Lots of pics at 300mm were really blurry, beyond fixing with USM in Photoshop (I shoot RAW by the way). I may have to send it in to Canon to have examined.
Anyway, I noticed that f/4-5.6 was a little too slow for action shots, but fine for static shots of their bags/clubs. I also noticed I was longing for a little more reach.
So now I am wondering if I ought to re-think my lenses. Since the 17-55 didn't come out of the bag all day, I wonder if I ought to rent a 24-105 f/4L IS and a 400 f/4L DO IS? The 24-105 may be more versatile at the short end, and then the 400 will be handy when I need the reach. Since I can't have a monopod with me, any telephoto lens I take needs to have IS. The place I am thinking of renting from won't have a 300 2.8 IS in stock in time for me, so that's a bummer.
I don't know, maybe I should just do the 100-400 IS... HELP!
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