Albatrossity2
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| Quote (carlsonjok @ April 29 2010,18:20) | | What kind of lens do you use when you go birding? I took this with my new Tamron telephoto at 270mm and still had to crop the image quite a bit. Your photos are always so close and crisp, I figure you must have a killer set up. |
Thanks. But I have a lot of heavily cropped images too!
The lens that I use for bird photography is the Canon 100-400 f/5.6 zoom; the body is a Canon 5D. For a zoom, that lens is pretty sharp, and the 13 megapixel sensor on the body makes it possible to still have a crisp image if you have to crop it.
The only problem with the lens is that the aperture is too small to allow the use of a 1.4X or other teleconverter and still have the autofocus work. You need at least an f/4 for that, and those things can start to cost you the big bucks. 400 mm is really about the bare minimum focal length for bird or other nature photography; it would be nice to bump that up with a converter.
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