The IS on my 24-105 is almost never on (battery conservation). I think the 24-105 with the 50 1.4-$300 lens is a great cover most of the bases set up.
The IS on my 24-105 is almost never on (battery conservation). I think the 24-105 with the 50 1.4-$300 lens is a great cover most of the bases set up.
Yah, the 24-105L + 50/1.4 will be a good approach. []
Originally Posted by Keith B
If you don't mind me asking, do you feel any difference in battery life between IS on and off? I have never experienced any noticeable difference in battery life myself; I know the IS should affect battery life, just don't know how great.
I haven't really noticed much on the 24-105 (it is a relatively new lens to me 12/08) but I did notice a little bit with my 100-400. I couldn't tell you exactly how much. It is probably negligible but when you take into battery cycle life spans and such and being $90 a pop.
I also get a little tripped out when the IS enables (noise, vibrations) especially in the 100-400 so I don't like to have it on when I don't absolutely need it.
I usually don't think about whether I should have it on or off, but it's usually on because of my habit of not having enough light to get by without it.
When it's off, sometimes THAT weirds me out. I find the sound reassuring. When I use my 400mm, with no IS, and I watch the image bounce around in the viewfinder, my first impulse is to look for the switch to turn it on. I wish I had such a mechanism for my compound bow []
Ahh, feel the same actually. The only IS lens I have is the 70-200/4L IS. Because I use film, it usually takes me time to compose or just lookinginto the view finder for quite some timebefore actually taking a picture. When IS's switching on and off frequently I do feel disturbing a bit. So when I need time tocompose and focusI just turn off the IS, and when I'm shooting I'll put it on, no matter what speed I'm using. The image shake is not that bad at 200mm, but I can imagine it will be hard to handle when it's 400mm...
It will be hard to live w/o IS for the 70-200mm, the 24-105L should still be reasonably handy.
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