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WTF? How does a lack of image stabilization make the lens "effectively" two stops slower? That would make it an f11 lens "effectively". It's not. It's an f5.6 lens. Period. HAVING IS would give you the ability to hand-hold the lens at a two-stop slower shutter-speed, but that's all. A 70-300 is a very hand-holdable lens; even using the 1/fl rule for shutter-speed, you only need to get to 1/300 of a second (easily 1/250 with practice) and chances are you don't want to shoot much slower than that, especially if you're shooting moving animals. I would also submit that classifying tri & monopods as a "massive inconvenience" is more than a bit of an overstatement....the lack of image stabilization, which effectively makes it 2 stops slower on top of that for still subjects. Combined with the long focal length, this means lots of motion blur, or the massive inconvenience of some sort of physical stabilization, unless you're in full on broad daylight.
WTF? How does a lack of image stabilization make the lens "effectively" two stops slower? That would make it an f11 lens "effectively". It's not. It's an f5.6 lens. Period. HAVING IS would give you the ability to hand-hold the lens at a two-stop slower shutter-speed, but that's all. A 70-300 is a very hand-holdable lens; even using the 1/fl rule for shutter-speed, you only need to get to 1/300 of a second (easily 1/250 with practice) and chances are you don't want to shoot much slower than that, especially if you're shooting moving animals. I would also submit that classifying tri & monopods as a "massive inconvenience" is more than a bit of an overstatement.
Larger apertures let you take a non-blurry photo in lower light. This is the feature of larger apertures that explains why people call them "Fast" colloquially.WTF? How does a lack of image stabilization make the lens "effectively" two stops slower? That would make it an f11 lens "effectively". It's not. It's an f5.6 lens. Period. HAVING IS would give you the ability to hand-hold the lens at a two-stop slower shutter-speed, but that's all. A 70-300 is a very hand-holdable lens; even using the 1/fl rule for shutter-speed, you only need to get to 1/300 of a second (easily 1/250 with practice) and chances are you don't want to shoot much slower than that, especially if you're shooting moving animals. I would also submit that classifying tri & monopods as a "massive inconvenience" is more than a bit of an overstatement....the lack of image stabilization, which effectively makes it 2 stops slower on top of that for still subjects. Combined with the long focal length, this means lots of motion blur, or the massive inconvenience of some sort of physical stabilization, unless you're in full on broad daylight.