I’ve added a few photos from a shoot at Brisbane Botanic Gardens and dinner at Crystle and Camerons on sunday night. The shots were taken with a Canon EOS 20D and a Canon EF 28-135mm F4.5-5.6 IS USM zoom lens.

This is a great lens, the image stabiliser is very good, (which was most handy at 135mm in darker areas hand held). This lens does however suffer from the IS freaking out when used on a tripod, sometimes creates a tiny blur.Remember to turn off the IS on this lens when on a tripod. Some latest generation IS lenses don’t suffer from this problem.

The Canon 28-135 IS USM does create some nice bokeh effects when around 50mm onwards. The aperture seems to be a of a circular shape creating smooth out of focus shapes.

The battery life from the Canon BP511A pack is fantastic, didn’t look like going flat at all from a day of shooting. Shot about 130 odd photos in RAW+JPEG with a 3 sec review.

I haven’t got a vertical grip yet with this camera, after using a Canon D60 in the past with the vertical grip, i think it does help balance the camera with a larger lens especially lenses like the 28-135 which has a diameter of 72mm.

I’m using 1gb Apacer Photo Steno II compact flash cards, cost me a bargin $37 AU each from msy.com.au. Can’t even buy the materials for that price, trust me- i went to spotlight to add up the price for the materials.. you can’t do it.

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