Experimenting

[Mictheslik]

...where else but in the garden

getting used to the push/pull zoom and when and how to use IS

@100mm with IS
     

@400mm with IS
     

@200mm with IS
     

@400mm without IS (just to see the difference....though it is shot against the sky)


Finally the first aircraft to grace the glass.....a local A319 going in to Bristol



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[Omag 2.0]

Good series to show IS.

As my fellow Belgium Digital members state... IS is good on static objects at longer exposure-times. ( though the cat seems a bit out of focus

[Mictheslik]

( though the cat seems a bit out of focus  ;))

It was miles away (well not literally) so it's been cropped quite heavily....

And another question, can you show the magnification of this lense. Ex a photo of the same area at 100 mm, 300 mm and at 400 mm. I'm dying to know what big a difference the extra 100 mm makes...

Will do, but it's now chucking it down again and going dark...maybe tomorrow

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[Rifleman]

And another question, can you show the magnification of this lense. Ex a photo of the same area at 100 mm, 300 mm and at 400 mm. I'm dying to know what big a difference the extra 100 mm makes...

When using a film configured camera, to get a 1:1 ratio without any real magnification power, the normal 50-55 mm lens is about the starting point. Therefore, a 100mm would be about 2:1 and so on......300mm will yield about 6 times mag. These are only rough numbers, but can be used in a pinch to determine how much larger you can see what you shoot.
Digital brings in a whole new dimension to the scope of things as the higher the res, then the more you can crop in magnification by shooting more resolution than the optput of your monitor. Resolution for print should still be 300 dpi (pixels) or higher . As I said, not hard and fast, these factors are close enough to give some basic idea of what you shoud see.  8-)