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Looking at a Canon telephoto lens
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<blockquote data-quote="Macaflan" data-source="post: 796280" data-attributes="member: 83938"><p>I have the IS version which you can get used for around $400. I don't recommend anyone getting a nonIS lens until they are more experienced with how to hold the camera steady, etc....</p><p></p><p>I just got this lens and after shooting with a Canon XTi (my wife's camera) at ISO 1600 with flash inside of our daughter at 300mm (which is effectively 480MM in 35mm terms), I was across the room and able to put just her face in the frame (and this is a small child mind you), so the reach is great and the lens is a pretty sharp lens for the money.</p><p></p><p>I am happy with it. You can manual focus any lens from Canon since you can switch off AF with any lens.</p><p></p><p>Background blur is a combination of 4 factors:</p><p></p><p>1) Aperture (the wider, the shallower depth of field)</p><p>2) How close you are to your subject literally (the closer, the shallower depth of field)</p><p>3) Focal length (longer = shallower depth of field).</p><p>4) I will add this as well - distance from subject to background (further background is from focused subject, the more out of focus the background will be).</p><p></p><p>Therefore, just because racked out at 300mm this lens is at 5.6, you can get please blurred backgrounds. Yeah, it won't be like a 50mm 1.4 at 1.4, but you can do pretty well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Macaflan, post: 796280, member: 83938"] I have the IS version which you can get used for around $400. I don't recommend anyone getting a nonIS lens until they are more experienced with how to hold the camera steady, etc.... I just got this lens and after shooting with a Canon XTi (my wife's camera) at ISO 1600 with flash inside of our daughter at 300mm (which is effectively 480MM in 35mm terms), I was across the room and able to put just her face in the frame (and this is a small child mind you), so the reach is great and the lens is a pretty sharp lens for the money. I am happy with it. You can manual focus any lens from Canon since you can switch off AF with any lens. Background blur is a combination of 4 factors: 1) Aperture (the wider, the shallower depth of field) 2) How close you are to your subject literally (the closer, the shallower depth of field) 3) Focal length (longer = shallower depth of field). 4) I will add this as well - distance from subject to background (further background is from focused subject, the more out of focus the background will be). Therefore, just because racked out at 300mm this lens is at 5.6, you can get please blurred backgrounds. Yeah, it won't be like a 50mm 1.4 at 1.4, but you can do pretty well. [/QUOTE]
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