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My local camera store has a 300mm f/2.8 for rent. Maybe yours does as well. How many night games do you want to shoot?

I have been trying the Samyang 14mm f/2.8 with reasonable results. As for everything in astrophotography, give your existing 16-35mm lens a trial at f/2.8 as soon as you get a chance, and see if...

funny picture

Careful, the links on the last post indicated it was for the Mamiya medium format camera, the 645. If your lens is for one of the 35mm Mamiya Sekor SLRs circa 1970, then it will be an M42 screw...

That's the one to get. Personally, I like 35mm better, but YVMV.

For those of us with "budget" birding lenses ("budget" defined as at or below $1,600.00), the prime dawn hour can be difficult with a wide-open f/5.6 lens. I find myself running the 60D at ISO1600...

with behavior (preening).

+1. Still, I like having "more pixels on the bird". It is hard to fill up FF with a tiny songbird. Eagerly awaiting 7D2 with better sensor and 1DX/5D3 grade AF.

Excellent photos of this lovely duck. This duck is very common in North America too. Anas clypeata.

7100 lesser than 7D in all the important sports/wildlife attributes: burst rate, buffer capacity, and likely focusing

It is a standard format, in theory. I found Manfrotto camera plates to be not that secure, there was some play in the mount.

I think that Adobe has just created a market for OS emulators and other reverse-engineered methods for keeping LR and PS current versions running. Newer cameras should have either DNG RAW format or...

I am a bit disappointed, as I think that my BIF keeper rate could go up a bit with an AF more sophisticated than the one in the 60D. I was hoping for a better high ISO sensor performance as well,...

Don't hold your breath for the Nikon D7100 - its buffer is smaller than a Manhattan closet. Maybe 6  RAW? My 3 year old 60D gets 16 RAW at top speed, 7D 26 RAW with v2 firmware. The Nikon might be...

and keychain charm were the subjects of my first shots with MP-E65. Creatively lit,  bounced off some colored metallic gift wrap.

Was this at a high traffic park?

Tree Swallow Red-Winged Blackbird : a shrill announcement of spring

Yes, I am interested in the near-macro capabilities (0.5x is good enough for most things). I had this in mind as a lightweight hike-about and walk-about lens for FF. The optics are reported to be...

I enjoy these photos. Thanks. Canon RUMORS website mentions that the 7D2 will be introduced next year 2014, with the only crop camera in later 2013 being the 70D. CR2. Bummer. I have been putting...

Lovely. Do you attract them with a bath or feeder, or do you pick a likely wild spot and set up a hide? The backgrounds are excellent.