Sandspur
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- Pensacola, FL
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Forget the IS for now. Become experienced with the best quality long lens you can get by learning to control how you hold the camera (and lens) for maximum stability, how you move to follow action, how you squeeze rather than punch the button, etc. In other words, all the basics most of us had to learn back before IS lenses and bodies existed.
Oh, and one reminder - if you're shooting off a tripod with an IS or VR lens - never, never, never have IS feature turned on.
A student of mine came to me this week with shots he'd taken with his Canon XT and his brand new Canon 100-400 IS. The shots he'd taken from the deck of a ship in Alaska were great, and the IS worked perfectly.
But when he got home to Florida he went out to a local marsh to take some pix of wading birds. And, you guessed it, he used a tripod. But he didn't know to turn the IS OFF!
Every shot was blurred ... because the IS feature was still cycling through it's paces, trying to do it's job. And since there was no unsteady hand to compensate for, it was at war with the tripod.
Oh, and one reminder - if you're shooting off a tripod with an IS or VR lens - never, never, never have IS feature turned on.
A student of mine came to me this week with shots he'd taken with his Canon XT and his brand new Canon 100-400 IS. The shots he'd taken from the deck of a ship in Alaska were great, and the IS worked perfectly.
But when he got home to Florida he went out to a local marsh to take some pix of wading birds. And, you guessed it, he used a tripod. But he didn't know to turn the IS OFF!
Every shot was blurred ... because the IS feature was still cycling through it's paces, trying to do it's job. And since there was no unsteady hand to compensate for, it was at war with the tripod.