I have a Canon Rebel Xt. Should I upgrade to the 70-300 mm IS Lens?
I mostly use my 70-300mm Lens to take youth sports action shots. Would I see much of a difference if I upgraded to the 70 – 300mm IS Lens? My Canon only has 8.00 mega pixels. I hear wonderful things about the Image Stabilizer.
That wouldn’t be much of an upgrade at all.
Your 8 megapixels are plenty enough, they are not the problem.
Your problem is a lens with the biggest possible aperture of f/4, which gets even worse as you use the zoom.
The IS isn’t going to improve that any at all.
You’d be better off with with an f2.8 lens, even if it was the shorter 70-200mm one. If you bought the L lens, you’d have the speed you need, plus the quality to allow you to zoom in.
Add a 1.4x converter, and you’d still have f4.0 all the way through the zoom, plus a 360mm equivalent lens.
Any lens that has that much range will be slow and inadequate for sports. Look into getting a long lens with a aperture of 2.8
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That wouldn’t be much of an upgrade at all.
Your 8 megapixels are plenty enough, they are not the problem.
Your problem is a lens with the biggest possible aperture of f/4, which gets even worse as you use the zoom.
The IS isn’t going to improve that any at all.
You’d be better off with with an f2.8 lens, even if it was the shorter 70-200mm one. If you bought the L lens, you’d have the speed you need, plus the quality to allow you to zoom in.
Add a 1.4x converter, and you’d still have f4.0 all the way through the zoom, plus a 360mm equivalent lens.
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