Photography, random posts and very little about kebabs.
So, eventually decided to take the plunge and ordered the 15mm fisheye.
Shop price £450, Kerso ebay price £390, Kerso non Ebay price £370.
So guess where I got it from!
He seems a very reasonable bloke does Ian. Hopefully should get it soon, depends on the wonderful british banking system.
O.k. I’ve had a 24-105 f/4 L IS lens for a good 4 months now. Never really valued what IS can do. Well tonight as I was bored shitless I’ve decided to have a play. The following 5 shots were all taken at .4″ f/4.0 @105mm.
I think it’s quite clear which shot was taken with IS enabled. I was attempting to keep very still on all images. More so with the latter 4. All images have been sharpened with the same level of USM.
The last shot is the closest to the IS shot, this method was taken by putting both elbows on the desk for stability. It seems to have done a much better job, maybe this could work for some.
Overall, very impressed with IS. I can’t wait to try it on the 300mm f/4.
Maybe not indecision this time, more of a refinement of my previous wants.
Equipment wanted:
EF300mm f/4 – Currently £868.00
EF15mm f/2.8 Fisheye – £441.96
EX580 Flash unit – £247.49
Total £1557.45
Also need a monopod for the 300mm lens. Though might wait and see what people are flogging off at Focus. Not committing myself to a purchase until Focus 2007. If the prices are like the last year then maybe i can expect 5-10% off these. Saving £150 would be nice. Camerapricebuster.co.uk is my current secret weapon!
Still would like a 1D Mark IIn, but i’m waiting for the PMA show for that one. Too many rumours abound, so as its not needed it can wait.
I fully expect this list to change. Though i’m very happy with the performance of my EF70-200 f/4 with the 1.4 converter. I think the 300mm will behave in exactly the same way. Although IS will help it. And maybe improve on the 200.
Whilst on the usual Saturday shopping trip with Rachel I decided to take trip to Jessops to test the 300mm lens. Also the added bonus was she was asleep so it made the whole thing possible.
Right here goes:
Jessops supplied 5D (with very dirty viewfinder! – thought mine was shite) and 300mm f/4 IS USM lens.
Saw an incident today(10-01-2007). Ran (well slight jog) to what I had seen. It was an old building near Aston Science Park (Birmingham – for all my none brummie readers). Local press tog was there already. Fired off a few shots (as well all the other camera phones and digital compacts). Had a brief chat to the tog, seems that the Evening mail rarely pay for any images from freelancers. Still sent it anyway!
