Is £350 to get rid of my wobbly bits worth it?

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Last weekend I really wished I had IS on my 70-200mm when I could only get speeds like 1/125th at ISO 400 wide open and it showed.

But is it really worth £350+ more, as that is the difference between the IS and non-IS versions of this lens.

Clearly it is the difference between sharp shots or not so I can understand why it would be worth it for professionals. But I am not one and the cost of upgrading could get another lens or even a second body. Something which would see use as I do swap lenses a lot for wider lenses.

Michael.
 
I was in the same position as yourself, in the end I bit the bullet and bought the IS version. With the cashback, it came in at around £600. It`s well worth the extra to me.
 
IS lets you do things that you cannot do without. It enables slow shutter speed panning with lovely blurred backgrounds, at shutter speeds it is simply impossible to handhold. My 70-200 IS is the best lens I have.
 
You've got a 30D. Why don't you crank it up to 1600iso? Shooting in RAW and using something like Noiseware pro will elimitate practically all noise (if well exposed).
 
The cost of a very decent monopod is less than £350 I'm sure ;)
 
Mohain said:
You've got a 30D. Why don't you crank it up to 1600iso? Shooting in RAW and using something like Noiseware pro will elimitate practically all noise (if well exposed).
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Never having gone beyond the noise reduction in the CS1 version of ACR, is dedicated software really that good? I will have to see if I can find something that still runs on my laptop to try it out then.

chuckles said:
The cost of a very decent monopod is less than £350 I'm sure ;)
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That is a very good point.

Not that I would have been able to use one on Saturday but it was really just more like personal snaps then anyway. On Sunday when I was being a bit more serious I did have my monopod with me and shake was not a problem. (Just my own inability!) Although I was out in the sun then too.

Michael.
 
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