IS or no IS is the question.

[brdy]

Still deciding on lenses .. Refer previous post "What would you but (its a long one ). Yesterday. ( oh and BTW thank you very much for replies has helped me quite a bit)

But have a couple of questions that some of you would know.

How important is "Image Stability " in a lens.

Canon has a good 70-200mm f4 USM L series lens. Its and L lens but does not have IS its about half the price of the IS version of same L lens.

around $600 for no IS ...$1200 with IS

Iam new to dslrs (in fact havnt bought one yet) so help me here ...1st can you hand hold and shoot with a lens of this focal range or does it really need a tripod anyway , I have heard that IS saves a couple of f stops. If the lens is on a tripod does IS help at all.
cheers

 

[Derrel]

The older f/4 lens with no IS is optically quite a bit behind the newer lens designs Canon now has in the 70-200 arena...while the older f/4 non-IS lens is not "horrible", the NEWER f/4 IS model is exceptionally good for a zoom lens...

 

[tirediron]

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