Canon 28-300IS

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Anyone had their grubby mits on one yet? Maybe the ultimate walk-about lense (if a little heavy).

[dcw@pr]

All those 28-300s are too S L O W I used to use them quite a lot. admittedly if you can only carry one lens around a sunny climate and you don't want to use it indoors...

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

dcw@pr said:

All those 28-300s are too S L O W I used to use them quite a lot. admittedly if you can only carry one lens around a sunny climate and you don't want to use it indoors...

It's as fast as my 28-135IS and that's not too bad.

[dcw@pr]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

dcw@pr said: All those 28-300s are too S L O W I used to use them quite a lot. admittedly if you can only carry one lens around a sunny climate and you don't want to use it indoors... It's as fast as my 28-135IS and that's not too bad.

if you don't mind it then I guess it's not an issue. I definately took some nice pics with mine, but I much prefer to carry around a 50mm prime and a 17-35mm type for 95% of useage, and maybe my 80-400 if I think I will need it

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

You're talking about the new(ish) 35-350IS replacement yes?

[dcw@pr]

no, not specifically. I'm generalising to all the lens that have such a large range of focal lengths. The ones I used were Tamrons mainly, plus a Sigma (yuk, hated that one). I don't see that the fancy ones will be any better because it was the speed I had the main issue with, not image quality