Which will you do if you had ~$1k to spend?

[Reflection]

Buy calamine lotion to stop the itch.

After you are cured, spend it with your wife or save it or invest it to grow more $

....afterwhich you'll then spend it with the wifey.:bsmilie:

 

[miniUltraman]

I agree with your point. But 75-300IS's contrast and colour is pretty good as well. Its in the "better" lens range. Alot of time, people just think L lenses are supposed to be "better" but I have come across consumer lenses that out perform some L lenses. 2 good examples are 75-300 IS and 24-85mm. These are very sharp and contrasty consumer lenses, especially 75-300 IS.

Also, he uses a canon flash which have ETTL, so ETTL compensate according to camera settings, so it fine.

To jump from f4-5.6 to f4, not much difference under low light, but with IS, at least camera-shake is minimise. I'll recommend a f2.8 for low-light to minimise mothion blur in low-light, rather than a f4.

Just my point-of-view, I had a 70-200 f4 for about 2 months, sold my 75-300IS for it for the same reason. I felt its not very "helpful", like 75-300IS under low-like. In the end, I found a 2nd-hand 70-200 f2.8 at TCW at a pretty good price. And its been with me eversince. The difference between the f2.8 and the f4 is significantly obvious.

Bro Max 2.8... you'd enlightened me... I'm also considering between the 70-300mm IS vs 70-200mm f4L... given that they cover almost the same range.. but an IS is good for handheld.. and "L" is good for photo quality... I think I will go for 70-300mm IS after reading your post :bsmilie: lighter, shorter and cover 300mm range :thumbsup:

 

[miniUltraman]

Tks.. Very interesting.. Gives me 2nd thoughts about swapping mine away

Jeryl.. given your current configuration... you don't really need anything else... perhaps aim for a EF400mm f2.8 with your TC 2x... it will be really cool @ 800mm :thumbsup:

 

[jeryltan]

That is very very far from my current budget

Jeryl.. given your current configuration... you don't really need anything else... perhaps aim for a EF400mm f2.8 with your TC 2x... it will be really cool @ 800mm :thumbsup:

 

[TrailsofLife]

Most of the advice seems to tell you to hang on to your $$...So relac first lor.

This 1k may meant nothing now, but it may become handy in future.

 

[NorthernLights]

Jeryl.. given your current configuration... you don't really need anything else... perhaps aim for a EF400mm f2.8 with your TC 2x... it will be really cool @ 800mm :thumbsup:

You will become Mini-Ultraman with the 400 f2.8. :bsmilie:

 

[miniUltraman]

You will become Mini-Ultraman with the 400 f2.8. :bsmilie:

Whoowhoo...

 

[Gunbucker]

I would rather spend the money on travel expenses to some nice shooting opportunities in the region... gear is rather useless without interesting subjects :bsmilie:

 

[jeryltan]

Couldn't resist getting the 30D So broke now, thread closed until new funds arise