Black and White Photography Blog, Vol. I

It’s a pleasure to have IS (image stabilization). This is the first time I got to play with it. Handheld at 1/20th of a second; 135mm. Well, I’ve got a pretty full range to have fun with, from my 20mm up to 300mm on the new lens. I ended up with the 70-300mm because I wanted IS but couldn’t afford it on the other lenses. So this isn’t an “L” lens, but it looks pretty sharp to me. You can lock the zoom in place at 70 and 300mm so it doesn’t “slip.” And for a lens that long, it’s pretty light and was sitting atop the contraption without a problem. Funny, how one thing leads to another. The string was something like this: montages, vertical montages, longer lens from high angle, image stabilization to see about using a longer focal length in low light…