Good luck with your new camera and lens!
Niels
Thanks Niels.
Appreciated
Good luck with your new camera and lens!
Niels
I'm still getting variable results with the Lumix 100-300 lens on my Lumix G5, so I tried a little experiment. I took some pictures of a sign on my neighbour's house from about 40 metres away using various zoom lengths. I then cropped all the pictures on the computer so that the sign completely filled the picture. The idea was to see which focal length gave the sharpest image. Much to my surprise the sharpest pictures were the shots taken with the lens at 100mm and the worst were the shots taken with the lens at 300mm - ie the "electronic zoom" performed by the cropping gave a better result than the optical zoom. I tried altering the shutter speed, but this made little difference – the 100mm shot at 1/200 was much better than the 300mm shot at 1/400 (see the examples below - the first is 300mm at 1/400 f5.6, and the second is 100mm at 1/200 f7.1).
What this seems to show is that I'll get better results in the field if I leave the lens unzoomed and then just crop the pictures on the computer when I get home. It also suggests that I could be better off leaving the lens at 100mm and using electronic zoom on the camera. Either would certainly make taking pictures a lot easier!
....... I then cropped all the pictures on the computer so that the sign completely filled the picture. The idea was to see which focal length gave the sharpest image. Much to my surprise the sharpest pictures were the shots taken with the lens at 100mm and the worst were the shots taken with the lens at 300mm ...............
Jeff