Neil Grubb
Well-known member
Okay, here's the situation. I have a Canon EOS300D, and an 8 year old Canon 75-300mm f4.0-5.6 lens. By and large I get on fine with these for bird photography. I have struggled most with low light, and with focus for in-flight shots (where I currently use manual focus cos the auto on my current lens is no use). I have some back-pay coming, and could probably afford an upgrade.
My questions are:
(i) what are the advantages of the 20D over the 300D, other than the marginal resolution improvement ?
(ii) would a Canon 100-400mm IS lens offer much better image quality shooting in low light than what I have? The really fast lenses seem to cost thousands of pounds and this is the only compromise lens I have seen.
(iii) I am not prepared to shell out for both. If anything, which upgrade would you go for ?!!
Any advice would be welcomed.
My questions are:
(i) what are the advantages of the 20D over the 300D, other than the marginal resolution improvement ?
(ii) would a Canon 100-400mm IS lens offer much better image quality shooting in low light than what I have? The really fast lenses seem to cost thousands of pounds and this is the only compromise lens I have seen.
(iii) I am not prepared to shell out for both. If anything, which upgrade would you go for ?!!
Any advice would be welcomed.