Pacific Black Duck

A Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa) pokes his head above the bank at Sherwood Arboretum on Sunday afternoon while I was there trying out the new lens.

On first impressions, I'm really happy with it. In terms of sharpness and clarity, it's way better than the lens it's replacing, and the Image Stabiliser is great - this was handheld 1/100sec at 300mm.

He said... she said...

• Well it looks like you did buy yourself somehting real nice.... good work. !
  ColNed Pictures @ 2007-08-02 20:18:24
• Wonderful animal shoot with great rendering and excellent use of DOF to focus on it.
  Florian @ 2007-08-02 22:08:20
• Fantastic image Heath.
  Roger @ 2007-08-03 00:18:24
• IS did work, super crisp shot given the focal length it was shot at!
  Ashish Sidapara @ 2007-08-03 02:18:39
• lens - wow. Agree with Ashish. The other would have been pretty poor with 300mm at 1/100 but this is great.
  duck - yummmy when roasted.
  
  lemmingstone @ 2007-08-07 13:35:24

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