burstintoflame81
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I like the last one but it would have been much better if the bird was at the bottom of the pic so u could have more water showing in the horizon.
I'm sitting here looking at these shots and at others here and some old Canon FD and M42 lenses on auction trying to figure out what to get for shooting birds and such. Would you say a 300MM is better than a 200MM for this, or does it really make that much of a difference?
I'm seeing a lot of 200MM that are fairly inexpensive, but once you start going up to 300MM they really start to stretch the limits of my budget. I'm wondering if a 200MM might do me, at least for now, or if I should hold out for a 300MM. Looking at these, and seeing what you're using I'm thinking maybe I really do need a 300MM rather than a 200MM but I can't quite make up my mind on that score.
I might just have gotten a 500MM FD lens in a kit of them though I don't really know how decent it is. I'm working for them, but I don't actually have them as yet. I'm assuming that lens could handle anything, catch a fly on a bird's tail feathers halfway across a football field, but not having used anything with that great a reach I'm not exactly sure. The longest lens I have is a 135MM Rikenon and it's not great.
If that Canon kit doesn't work out, I think I still want to buy at least a 200/300 MM lens in the not too distant future because the 135MM lens I have just isn't cutting it for catching birds. By the time I get close enough I've generally lost the chance to take the shot. Could you do this with anything less than a 300MM do you think? Or would you be blowing it most of the time because you'd have to be too close?
This set up was equal to 420mm with my 1.4x Teleconverter ( 672mm if you cound the crop factor of the camera 1.6x ). Its got some decent distance, but its still not as long as you think. I still find myself wishing I had just a little more distance.
Yep, that was me with camo on my 400 and no tripod . I went out to Boyce Thompson Arboretum this morning.
The main three hummers we get in the Phoenix area are Anna's, Costa's, and Broad Billed.