My first Peacocks of the year

[oldcanon]

More in hope than expectation I pointed my 70-300 LIS at this pair of Peacock Butterflies fluttering by at the Heronry yesterday. Clearly not up to "quality" standard but I was gob-smacked that it focus locked and got this amount of detail using single shot / AI servo mode. a crop of around 7% without resizing

Must start polishing the macro kit!

[briansquibb]

Re: My first Peacocks of the year

The 70-300L does af VERY quickly - which is how I caught that swallow

[oldcanon]

Re: My first Peacocks of the year

too right Brian, particulalrly with the 7D body. I got a Sand Martin as well yesterday so can see how you did the Swallow, but these things were tiny (I never managed it with my 300 f4LIS and I reckoned that to be one of the best for ths type of shot)

[briansquibb]

Re: My first Peacocks of the year

Am off to Leeds Castle on Saturday to get pictures of their bird display - am looking forward to more extensive use of the new lens. The birds are quite big there on the whole and you can get close so near full frame is a distict probability

Might try panning on the cranes

Do you find the sharpness and contrast very good on the 70-300L? It surprised me how close it was to the 135f2 in that respect

[oldcanon]

Re: My first Peacocks of the year

I look forward to seeing the results from Leeds Castle Brian, one of my favourite places (but a bit far to get there frequently)

I find the sharpness and contrast to be superb (on a par with or even better than my 70-200 F4LIS and 300 F4LIS) but it is just a tad lacking in Bokeh compared with those two.

My wife remarked today that since I've had it she hasn't heard my usual bleat "I've got the wrong lens on"

[briansquibb]

Re: My first Peacocks of the year

The bokeh from the 135f2 at 2.8 is superb - cant expect the same from the 70-300 at 5.6 (nor the 100-400 that was replaced)