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Capturing Wildlife with a 60D

Started May 6, 2016 | Discussions thread
photonius Veteran Member • Posts: 6,895
Re: Capturing Wildlife with a 60D

inevitablyissie wrote:

diness wrote:

Well, either a larger aperture or a longer focal length will provide more subject isolation. Do you find that you are cropping often? If you are, then go for a longer focal length, if not, go for larger aperture. For wildlife, I would expect you will likely want more reach, like a 100-400 or something.

I don't crop my images very often, I think it might be because I'm not keen on the loss of IQ by the time I've cropped it how I'd like but that could be a matter of cropping too far.

I love the look of the 100-400 but it is rather expensive. I've considered renting/hiring but I'm not sure. I wonder is it not more cost effective to just buy it in the first place but then if you end up not using it or changing your mind, it might be challenging to get your money back.

(Thanks for the advice btw!)

well, larger aperture would also be expensive, e.g. 300mm f4

tamron 150-600 or sigma 150-600 c are the cheapest long reach teles with good quality.

tele converters/extenders you will loose f-stops 1.4x = 1 stop,  2x 2 stops.

then AF on rebels is not supported anymore (limited to f5.6). it may work erratically with the 1.4x. Contrast detect AF may work.

But for a 55-250 you probably will not gain much IQ anyway with a 1.4x converter, 2x usually too much compromise.

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