HicHic wrote: Paul_100A wrote: HicHic wrote: Paul_100A wrote: HicHic wrote:
Did you try shooting again with IS 1 setting and without hood to see if it improves? I'm on the fence about buying this expensive lens and have heard many negative things about its performance given its extremely high price, so I'm a bit concerned.
i don't know what you've heard but if it's (performance) a knock against image quality of the lens...it's just wrong. Period.
the lens's suffering from heat/temp issues is an issue for all lenses of this size (and smaller). it's a large lens.
it's size takes getting used to. it takes optimal camera settings/skill to not inhibit it's performance just like all lenses in this size category.
Colin has a FF 4/600. he is used to a large lens size. he came out of the m4/3 blocks with spectacular images. he has stated that he may have some sub-optimal camera settings and heat issues to blame for some sub-par performance. i strongly suspect Colin is a very knowledgeable and experienced camera operator and may indeed be correct in his latest assertation.
Yeah image quality, which leads me to believe the quality control is not great. There shouldn't be that many soft copies and sample variation for a lens at this price.
There aren’t.
The people who say there are are wrong and/or mistaken. Period.
I came from the 4/300 and always had either TC attached.
I also had used an FE200-600.
I thought I was used to the focal length and size/weight of a large lenses. I thought I simply get a 150-400 and it’s off to the races. I was wrong.
My initial keeper rate with the 150-400 was shockingly low.
I was concerned that, for the first time in my camera operator life, I got a dud piece of equipment.
I was wrong about that too.
After a while the 150-400 keeper rate got better and better is now more than satisfactory. IQ quality easily rivals my 4/300.
These lenses are all different tools.
Why did you have shockingly low keeper rate? What is different about using the lens compared to using the 300/4 with TCs that your skill wasn't carried over?
Different tool.
The question is why did my keeper rate increase over and over with the same camera and lens.
I didn’t do any tooling/repairs to either the camera nor lens.
I just kept at it.
I know of a very decent wildlife photographer who claimed he purchased 3 150-400 lenses and found all 3 were soft. He returned all 3 and stated he was going to go with a Sony rig.
I don’t believe for 1 second that his luck was that bad.
I believe he thought the same as me that he was ready to handle the 150-400 and wasn’t for all three times.
Jan 19, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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