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Originally Posted by wolfie
Hi Clive, not yet. I'm now in two minds as to what to buy. My youngest son is taking me to Italy for a few days. (fathers day pressie)
We will be visiting Pompeii, Naples and Sorrento, I'm not to keen on travelling around with my heavyweight "L" lenses. So I'm considering buying the Canon EF 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 DO IS USM lens to partner my 17-55mm f/2.8 and 7D.
But then again we're now coming into the macro season and I need a new macro lens, my very old 100mm Canon one as seen far better days. If I buy the 70-300 approx £1350, I cannot afford the Macro IS lens, but could manage the non IS one.
So many problems. I'm just waiting for a price update from Kerso.
Harry
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make sure you don't pay £1350 for the DO, it can be had for a lot less than that -
http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/prod65.html also they come up secondhand fairly often and seem to go for ~£600-700. I did have a look at one recently (s/h in my local shop), it seemed like a nice lens but I couldn't see a difference between it and images from the standard 70-300 IS. Personally I wouldn't be able to justify the extra money for a DO, it might be 5cm shorter but the money saved would get you a 100 f2.8 IS...