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Subject: Excellent nature shots and macros. Take a look at this site.

TomDart opened this issue on Jul 14, 2007 · 7 posts
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TomDart ( ) posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 9:15 PM · edited Sat, 03 August 2024 at 7:46 AM

Attached Link: http://www.pbase.com/mbb

If you like well done photos, take a look at this man's website. On the equipment side, this is what he wrote to me:

"I shoot Canon 20D and my 'working horse' lens is 500mm f4 IS plus 1.4X  TC but any lens over 300mm or 400mm can do just fine - you just have to get closer too subject. In fact I have to back up sometimes as my minimal focusing distance is 15 feet.

I do spend hundreds of hours in field but you have to remember that nature is my life-time passion (I do have advanced degree in zoology)"

Look and enjoy, looking through the watermarks.         TomDart.

ejn ( ) posted Sun, 15 July 2007 at 3:08 AM

Some excellent shots there,thanks for the link
Eddie

awjay ( ) posted Sun, 15 July 2007 at 7:11 AM

wow...thanx for the link...something to aspire to there

Damia ( ) posted Sun, 15 July 2007 at 11:37 AM

Thank you for posting that Tom! It's inspiring for me to see people taking incredible shots with the 20D. So I guess it's true that most of the quality comes from quality glass. Now if I could just save up enough to get a couple high quality lenses...... :)

~Damia~ LeviathanPhotography

moonglove ( ) posted Sun, 15 July 2007 at 12:01 PM · edited Sun, 15 July 2007 at 12:05 PM

Oh,my new name..!

You will find a lot of photographers use the EF500 with the 1x4....700mm@f5.6...cant be bad :-)  I take mine on and off the 500 accordingly!
Also, a cheaper alternative is to buy the EF300 f4 prime and use the 1x4...420@f4!
which I also use, or just the 300 by itself!

moonglove ( ) posted Sun, 15 July 2007 at 2:32 PM

make that 420@5.6!

TomDart ( ) posted Sun, 15 July 2007 at 2:47 PM

Yeppie, @ 5.6.   Still, 5.6 works pretty well.   My 300 has a similar teleconverter and it seems to do fine..unless light is really dim.

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