Thanks,
but don't take my feedback to heart I'm no expert. I'm wondering if the 1.4x isn't begging to be stopped down further? *(should be able to go one more stop with the lens being IS?) The other photos you posted were spot on IMO maybe just the lighting on these.. I can imagine a non crop (full frame) sensor would be awesome with that amazing lens ! You do good work !
I noticed that too.
I was looking at that softness too and am a bit puzzled. I have several thoughts. I don't really think it was the light, but it might have been moisture in the air. Also, I, as nearly always, shot those in RAW (which means no in camera processing) and when I converted to Jpeg I chose a pretty high compression/low quality setting in photoshop (5 of 12 on photoshop's scale). I did no post processing except crop (most importantly no sharpening). I am going to go back and see what I get if I use smart sharpen. I also am planning to send the lens in for a good cleaning a bit later in the spring, once the waterfowl have moved out. Just had both camera bodies cleaned by Canon, so stuff on the sensor shouldn't be the issue. Of course, it could just be that I was not hitting the focus dead on the eye, the ducks were moving.Ha .. I was just about to ask for the EXIF .. Thanks... Wow 30D ? great shots... the first two are tiny bit soft probably light not helping..
Now that I look again... perhaps some focal point issue? Looks like the focal point on the first few is on the duck's back? Hit 'em in the eye !
Thanks for sharing !
