Long Lens Test
Today I have some images from tests of a couple of borrowed lenses that I put onto my Canon Elan 7N film camera as well as a Canon 5Dii digital. Other pictures from the film test are part of my 52Rolls project and published simultaneously to this one (here).
I borrowed a Canon EF 70-200mm/f2.8 IS II USM and an EF 300mm/f4 IS USM (no digital images included from this lens). The film was a fresh roll of Kodak GB 200. The digital photos are at ISO100, for the digital images, you will see EXIF data in the gallery below.
I have never used an image-stabilised (IS) lens on an SLR (or DSLR) before and am very impressed with their performance at lower shutter speeds. I found with the DSLR that I got reasonably sharp photos handheld at 1/20 and 80mm and better-than-nothing shots at 1/15th and 120mm (see below), normally I would hesitate to hand hold those focal lengths slower than about 1/250. The film quality let me down a bit, and a fairer test of the lenses with a film camera might be done with a less grainy film.
Overall, these lenses perform extremely well, they are very sharp, focus quickly, and focus quite close too. If only I could afford it, I would have both these in my kit. Since I can rent lenses like these locally it is really good to know just how well they work.
To open a large view of any image in the gallery below, click on it and navigate with the arrows to the others
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 300/f4 IS USM, colour version on 52Rolls.net
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- EF 300/f4 IS USM
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- EF 300/f4 IS USM
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- EF 300/f4 IS USM
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- EF 300/f4 IS USM cropped in scanner from previous image.
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM, Digital, ca 1:2 crop, hand held 1/20th at 80mm focal length
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM, Digital, ca 1:2 crop (identical to other doll image), hand held 1/15th at 130mm focal length
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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- EF 70-200/f2.8 IS II USM
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I have really been enjoying your looking up series, Mr E. Sorry I am not up to commenting more often. I hope I will get a post done today. You inspire me to keep going !
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It is more than enough to see that you are able to view things these days, and the occasional like tells me that. Keep going!!
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