Well, I had a play with my new lens at lunchtime today. For those of you that may have missed yesterdays post, I am the new proud owner of a Canon 70 - 200 L series lens, for my Canon EOS 300, and Canon EOS 300 D cameras.
As I stated in yesterdays post, I only had time to quickly look through the lens, and feel the weight of it.
Today, I took some photographs of my brother, walking around outside, as
well as an adopted stray cat that lives on our workshop property. Both subjects were moving at all times, and I managed to get CRISP, CLEAR & SHARP shots every-time!!!
This lens is just,
well....... fantastic. For a long time, I have been aware of a credo, that espouses something along the lines of.... "Get any camera, they all do much the same thing (film), but spend the money on good glass."
Just simply taking today's grab shots, and quickly viewing them in Photoshop, I quickly realised, that I am now able to get the same sort of results that we often see in photography magazines. Shots with clarity.
I will be learning, for the rest of my life, the art of composure, etc, but at least I can get my shots, nice & sharp. Colour rendition is damn good as
well. I find I don't have to tweak very much in RAW mode with colour temperature, before converting into psd.
I have done my calculation for my trip away, as far as shots go, and image storage. I am able to take around 2400 RAW images, at around 6.9 MB each. That equates to 67 rolls of Velvia slide film, at around $30.00 @ roll bought & developed........ $2000.00.
Should be able to rattle off say....... about 110 shots a day. Bound to be a couple of keepers in that lot!
Cheers for now.....
Wolfie