Canon or tamron

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Shortly after getting my 1000d i bought a tamron70-300 lens ,to be honest it`s not powerful enough for wildlife , but i`ve been watching other threads where people have been using canon lenses such as 70-200 (?) and the photos seem a lot better and although they don`t get any nearer the subject just seem to have a better quality; am i just not using my tamron properly? or is it a quality thing?
 
Possibly both.
Well I mean that the IQ in the Canon 70-200 is miles better than the Tamron, but you get what you pay for. The cheapest Canon is around 4x the price of the Tamron going up to 14x the price for the 70-200 2.8 IS MkII.

And we don't know how you shoot, and you haven't posted any pictures so we can't tell you whether your technique is right or not. Although you should still be able to take some decent shots with it. Someone who knows how to shoot properly will get better photos with the Tamron 70-300, than someone using the Canon 70-200 2.8 IS MkII but doesn't have a clue what they're doing.

But if you're comparing like for like, then yes the photos coming from the Canon will be a lot better than the Tamron.
 
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The Canon 70-200 is an amazing lens, fast AF and the more expensive models are also faster and have IS... three important things!
Also, the people using an expensive lens like that often have expensive cameras with more pixels, better ISO abilities, longer burst modes and more/faster AF points.... Four more important things!

Add to that their experience (unless they've just blown a load of cash on kit), composition skills and processing skills and you've got a lot of reasons why those shots taken with a shorter lens (ie 200mm versus your 300mm) might be better.
 
I don't see a problem with the first pic, it looks ok to me, 2nd one just looks a bit out of focus
 
Yeah they are sharp enough to me for a cheaper zoom lens, 2nd pic prob be weak as it will be wide open at max zoom, never the sweetspot of a lens.

Also prob been focused on the feeder not the bird.
 
Yeh, looking at pic 2 large the orange stick thing the birds evil claw is on is quite sharp, but the sharpness is already beginning to fall off as it reaches the feeder.

Just a bit front focused and needing you to stop down a little bit, at f8 or f11 that would have been pretty sweet. The bird is a bit scabby tho which isn't helping you.

Thats what people above were meaning, you could do the same with the expensive lens or someone could take that cheap lens and stop it down a little (and move closer ;)) and get a kick ass shot.

Give it time, you'll figure it out
 
I agree, the first looks fine and the 2nd seems focused on front of the feeder/perch which is the major problem. Did you crop in on this or is it the full photo?

I used to have this lens and for the price it was a good option. The next level up really is the Canon 70-300mm IS (don't consider the 75-300 it is really poor).
 
Was a tripod used? IS?

If not the shutter speeds are probably too low for best results at these lengths.
 
Thanks to everyone for taking the time to reply ,all the comments are appreciated,i have a couple of questions ,what is pixel peeping and how did you see what setting i used? One thing i have come across from other threads is people saying how at maximum zoom the pictures will not be that good , this is also a mystery to me
 
ruffdog64 said:
Thanks to everyone for taking the time to reply ,all the comments are appreciated,i have a couple of questions ,what is pixel peeping and how did you see what setting i used? One thing i have come across from other threads is people saying how at maximum zoom the pictures will not be that good , this is also a mystery to me
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Pixel peeping is just looking at a picture very close at each individual pixel.

Exif data ( all settings used)is stored in your shot , FireFox and Google Chrome do free add on's so you can see it , do a Google search .

A lot of the cheaper to mid range lenses have a tendency to go a bit soft a full zoom in your case 300mm, it shows up more when you crop a shot already at the lenses max zoom .

Hth.
 
ruffdog64 said:
what is pixel peeping
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Magnifying your pic on screen to the extent that individual pixels are visible. Generally not advisable as you will become your own worst critic.

and how did you see what setting i used?
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As below Firefox and Chrome have their own plugins where you right click on the image to see the info. See here for more info.

However, that's not how I found the settings on your pics as they weren't showing exif with a right click. Instead I went to the pic on flickr and clicked on 'this photo was taken with a canon eos 1000d' which revealed the info for each shot.
 
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