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A new owner

Started Jan 12, 2019 | User reviews thread
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Re: A new owner

Dave wrote:

1Dx4me wrote:

while a nice prime, it is a bit short though--you might stick a canon 1.4x III or 2.0x III on it all the time, however, it is very handhold-able congrats on your new expensive toy, happy zooming.

Short only to those coming from 300mm or 400mm?

when you come from 300mm/400mm lenses (i have all 3, 300 f2.8 II, 100-400 II, 400 f5.6), you have high expectation when you hold the 500mm prime and you soon realize it is not near enough for small birds shoot! so you stick a 1.4x TC to it and you still find it is short and so on i do the same with my 600mm prime, it just isn't enough when i use it bare, so i attach a 1.4x III TC and it seems decent enough but soon there are situations i wish to have more reach--it just doesn't end! but unfortunately with 600mm + 1.4x III, the lens get quite heavy and can be handheld for just a few min. and the easiest thing is to put the lens/camera on a tripod, which makes the whole setup too cumbersome to shoot little birds with   of course, i use the setup with my 1D type cameras (1Dx-1dmk4) that weigh quite a bit themselves then say, 5Dx type cameras!

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