NUSWS Welcome Tea 2008

Our president Ming Wei actually pointed at me and said, "You are the official photographer of tonight." So I am.

Using the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM that Ben lend me, I felt like I am the offical photographer of a concert. And since then I knew how difficult it is to be a concert shooter.

I liked the lens so much that I actually feeling unwilling to change back to my own lens and return the most expensive and heavy lens back to Ben.

How expensive? About 2 and a half times more expensive than my camera body. How heavy? About 2 to 3 times heavier than my camera body. But the experience is totally different, like nothing I felt before.

With the IS (image stabilizer), it will not have big problems when shooting even at the 400mm end. For me, 400mm end is just like the 55mm end on my 18-55. And that's a lot, so you know how useful and powerful is the IS function.

USM is definitely something new to me. It was very fast and silent, no where near as my lens. It has a focus limiter which limit from 1.8m-infty or 6.5m-infty. Maybe because I use the 1.8m-infty mode, it takes much time (and even slower than my lens in some extreme cases) travelling from infinity end to nearer end. But I definitely like the full time manual mode, although I didn't actually use it just now.

Many thanks to Ben for lending me the incredible lens!