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Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« on: November 19, 2008, 01:01:43 AM »
Ok, in a moment of madness, I just purchased the Canon 100-400mm IS USM off ebay for £750. I thought since the price was cheap, I'd take the plunge and go for it as I was ging to purchase one at christmas for £950. Anyhow, in order to fund this moment of madness I am selling my Canon 70-300mm IS USM on ebay.

This truely is madness but hopefully I will not regret the decision once I take the lens spotting :-\

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2008, 09:16:01 AM »
Well they do say it is the spotting lens. I'm very very jealous. Well as they same health to enjoy and looking forward to seeing the results :)

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2008, 03:31:52 PM »
Get out and take some pics now  ;) ;)

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2008, 05:13:54 PM »
I didn't get around to paying for it until this evening, so I'm hoping it will be sent tomorrow and arrive on Friday, or perhaps Saturday by the latest. It leaves me with a small problem though... I only have the small 18-55mm kit lens which is to be sold soon as well on ebay, meaning the lowest range I will have is 100mm. I need to get another lens to cover the short range  :-\

Thankfully it seems all my photos from BHD and BFS are around the 105 to 110mm range covering the new lens. I'm just hoping it will give me some unusual shots as well as some contrail shots. I'm exited :D

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2008, 11:55:45 PM »
Well the lens finally arrived today after a slight delay from the seller. The lens had been sent away for a checkup and returned slightly late, hence the delay in postage. I was well compensated with two filters, an upgrade in postage and a 6 month warrenty period. They sent the lens off yesterday (a Sunday!) midday and it arrived this morning before 1pm.

As for the lens itself, I havn't gotten around to testing it as I have been pretty busy recently however I might try it out at the weekend. So far from just looking at it... the thing looks awesome! :) the Push Pull zoom will be interesting to get used to!

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2008, 08:55:00 AM »
Glad you received it ok. Looking forward to seeing some results :)

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2008, 11:20:45 PM »
Well I was out at the cirt airport this morning in the glorious clear weather and I have to say, the lens just stunned me. The range is fantastic and the quality remains pretty sharp throughout the range, unfortunate I forgot to adjust the exposure biased half way through the trips reulting in slightly dark photos, but they were bright enough to be lightened in photoshop. Conclusion; I love this lens and recommendd it to anybody!








(forgot to add saturation in this on so looks abit lifeless!)








(again, forgot saturation!)



I think these came out well despite the darknesses in the originals!
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« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2008, 07:46:40 AM »
Great pics - the first one is  8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2008, 09:24:28 AM »
Very nice shots, especially like the Ryanair one.

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2008, 08:03:50 PM »
Thanks guys, unfortunately the ATR is slightly too blurry to be corrected. Ah well, next time :) I can't wait to go to Dublin for a days spotting, some point before Christmas.

Casper, I remember you mentioned at one point you were thinking about purchasing the canon 100-400 lens. I would recommend it, despite it's rather large price tag.

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2008, 06:49:24 PM »
Just thought I'd throw out afew more photos that could only have been shot with a 400mm range lens :) I find myself using the 400mm end quite alot! I'm not sure if I got a good version of the lens, but the sharpness at 400mm is considerably good. I mustve got lucky :)







Also seems to be better than my older 70-300mm lens at panning shots;





Happy Christmas all :)

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2008, 06:52:01 PM »
Love the contrails in the first photo. Glad that your new lens is living up to your expectations.

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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2008, 07:23:39 PM »
I like the Turbolet in the Manx scheme - nice  8)

(I might purchase the bigger Fuji Finepix model with the 400mm equiv lens in the new year,now that prices are coming down)
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Re: Just bought a new lens!! Canon 100-400mm IS USM
« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2008, 07:53:56 PM »
Thanks guys. Vortex, would that be the FinePix S100fs?

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« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2008, 08:31:34 PM »
Yes,that's the one i was thinking about buying.