new 70-300L - am I nuts?

[hodnik]

Welcome to the forums....and you sound nothing like a troll.

#2 and #4 look better to me than #1 and #3....did I guess right? Actually, #4 looks significantly better than #3 to me. But this could also be focus.

One thing you may want to post what your settings were (speed, aperture, ISO). One key is most lenses are pretty good at ~f/8. You may not see much of a difference. Where you will see more of a difference is wide open.

Also, lenses need to be match to the camera and congratulations, you have a camera body that can do it. Neuro wrote up the procedures here:

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/P...ment-Tips.aspx


EDIT...ok...looks like I was off with #1

you guys have been great so far! thanks for the comments.

the scorecard was taken from a tripod, f/8, 1/15, 200
the other was taken from a tripod, f/8 1/16, 200

i shot at f/8 as that is what i normally shoot at when spotting aircraft, because as you said, most lenses are good at f/8

thanks for the link, will read into it!

[Trowski]

you guys have been great so far! thanks for the comments.

the scorecard was taken from a tripod, f/8, 1/15, 200
the other was taken from a tripod, f/8 1/16, 200

i shot at f/8 as that is what i normally shoot at when spotting aircraft, because as you said, most lenses are good at f/8

thanks for the link, will read into it!

Another thing to remember with better quality lenses is that often much of the improvement is found at wider apertures and away from the center of the frame. Most lenses are pretty good at f/8 at the center. If you want to see what you paid for, perhaps compare each lens at an aperture where one lens is wide open.

Your results will probably look more like this: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/R...mp=2&APIComp=2