I went to PlaneSpotting just for this... (and with a new lens) / @LFBD / 05.21.2023

[Alex_Kraz]

Hi IFC,

It’s been a time that I didn’t post here.
2 weeks ago, I got a new lens which is the Canon EF-S 55-250 STM.
I couldn’t wait to do some spotting with my new lens.
Anyway, here are the shots (PS: feel free to follow me on Instagram, I post my shots here).

First, we have this parked PC-24. The aircraft came from Genava, took off for Le Bourget 40 minutes after this shot was taken.

Here, an easyJet Sharklets retracting the gears, blasting off to Luton

Another Sharkletted A320, but this time, a special livery, the Vueling’s Disneyland Paris (other side, the character is Iron Man), on this side, it’s Spiderman.

A little Chalair Beech 1900D on its way to Limoges.

AF climbing on the way to Lyon

An EC-145 of French Sécurité Civile with callsign “DRAGON 33” is returning to his base

“Lo Mejor está por venir”

It’s not all the time that you see an AF A320 with the sharklets. This one (Dinard) is also wearing the “2021 Livery”

F2F with this Royal Air Maroc 737-800 😳😎.
This one is wearing the new livery.

And the reason why I went to spotting this day is to catch this beauty: an AirCalin A339N 🤩.
He came from Singapore and landed at Bordeaux for check-in at Sabena ⚙

My equipments:

• Canon EOS 2000D, 18-55mm / 75-300mm / 55-250mm STM
• Editing softwares: Lightroom Classic

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Thank you for looking at my pics 😎

About the future of my 75-300 lens:

• Keep it
• Sell it

[JordxnE]

Definitely worth keeping a 300mm lens. I was actually beginning to look at expanding from my 18-105mm and my 55-300mm up to a 600mm lens as well for some good high altitude shots.

Nice catches though, I definitely have to upload a couple shots of my own.

[AndrewWu]

Glad to see my push to eliminate Canon 75-300mm MKIIIs from the hands of spotters is working. Sell that thing to some unsuspecting parent who’s been tricked by Canon and profit.

[Ethan_Brown]

Same here I’ve been looking at the Sigma 150-600mm and I might get it

[JordxnE]

My 300mm has served me well for these 3 shots.

My 300mm is a Nikon 300mm soooo not to sure of the difference I’ve only owned my camera about 2-3 months.

[Ethan_Brown]

Yep I currently have the Nikon D3500 with Nikor 18-55 and 70-300

[JordxnE]

Yeah the Nikon lenses have worked extremely well for me and I love it. I brought my camera and lenses for around 315 Aussie Buckaroos ( 210ish dollars for my American friends). Plus an extra around 17-19 US Dollars for my camera bag and my setup is great I can fit everything in my camera bag with up to 4 lenses, a camera body, my wallet, phone, keys and even portable charger. My camera bag comes with me almost everywhere I go. As a note I brought the Nikon D3200, while it’s an old body it’s a cheap workhorse for what I use it for.

[Alex_Kraz]

The 75-300 is considered by many as a poor lens (even one of the poorest that Canon produced).
The lens is good on Full-frame cameras, but on APS-C, it’s not very good (unless you have skill to focus it correctly on manual, cause it can gets out of focus easily, or use autofocus), also, hello the heavy Chromatic Aberrations

[AndrewWu]

I mean the Nikon 55-300 is considered a decent lens. The Canon 75-300 IS III is considered an awful lens (well, some people will defend it to their death but I got a paragraph for them).

[JordxnE]

that sounds like a major kekw moment if ever I’ve heard one.

[Chris_Hoss]

I can vouch for selling the 75-300. Honestly the worst lens I have owned. I got it at a young age because it was cheap but the glass is terrible. Bad colours, fringing was so much, no sharp images

[AndrewWu]

Generally it works the opposite way. Full frames are harder to please than crop sensors. They use more of the lens area and tend to have more MP so they expose imperfections more. The 75-300 sucks on APS-C and it sucks on full frame as well, this is why I’m so adamant on moving people away from it.

[Alex_Kraz]

Also, the lack of IS makes it hard to use at low shutter speed, you need to use the 1/lens focal length’s rule.
Soft images at wide apertures (especially 300mm at 5.6), you need to stop down to f/8 (but especially at f/11).

[AndrewWu]

Wait, it doesn’t have IS? I guess I need to double check my facts lol but regardless that’s one more piece of ammo in my bag against this thing.

[Mort]

That AirCalin A339 is so amazing!

[Alex_Kraz]

There is a 75-300 with IS (but it’s an older one from 1995).
The 75-300 Mark III (the one that Canon buddles with T6, T7) doesn’t have IS.

[AndrewWu]

Oh, I guess that’s where I got tripped up. The Mark 1 of that lens does have IS for some reason.

I still can’t believe Canon prices the 75-300 III at $199 and the 55-250 IS STM at $299 in the states. I swear the only reason they quote $199 is so people who don’t do a whole lot of poking add up the MSRP of everything in the bundle to see if they’re getting a good value, so they artificially inflate the price to $199 so the bundles seem like a better deal. I know it sounds like a conspiracy but that’s all I got.

[Alex_Kraz]

This is the perfect example of “You get what you pay for”

[AndrewWu]

It’s not even, I’d buy the 55-250 over the 75-300 even if the 75-300 was $100 to be totally honest.

On second thought, both lenses are not “you get what you pay for”. The 75-300 is worse than $199 suggests and the 55-250 is better than $299 suggests, although I think @Moritz would have an objection to that. But Moritz uses a $2500 lens that is still considered Canon’s greatest ever telephoto zoom so his opinion is invalid.

[Alex_Kraz]

I was talking about the 75-300, not the 55-250, which is much better than the 75-300