Strictly speaking, it's not new - I got the Canon EF 300 f/4 L IS second-hand (or is that pre-owned smile) on eBay. This gallery has a few of the photographs from my first outing with the lens to one of my regular locations - Kelsey Park. It proved three things: the lens is working OK and that I need to improve my technique. smile Also, the session showed how much better the big, bright viewfinder in the 1D Mk II is compared to my old 10D - much easier to manual focus.

This is a selection from the incompetently low proportion of keepers. Most of the shots started as full-sized images and were downsized in Photoshop; a couple are cropped - the square one is almost 100%.

I'm still using Photoshop CS2 to produce web galleries as it's very quick and easy, so you need to allow JavaScript and flash to view the gallery.

Kelsey Park & My New 300/4 IS