Check out all my 'latest images' in the gallery please. http://jimdavis.oberro.com/html/new_stuff5.html
I haven't taken the 1.4x off yet. And I'm ending up cropping less. They say you never have enough focal length. And I'm always at 400mm on the lens. Effective FL of 860mm with the 10d. A 400mm prime or greater is out of the question for me due to size and weight. I love having my entire rig in my tiny Lowepro TLZ Pro AW and not having a tripod. It allows me the freedom to flit from slit to slit and instantly react to a subject. IS I love you! Please keep in mind many of these shots are from great distances. I can't approach them from the bird viewing station, but have to take what I can get from the little slots in the wall. These slots do give me a good platform to rest the lens on though and make it possible to get some reasonably sharp images at my minimum f11 ISO 400. My shutter speeds hover between 1/50th and 1/250th most of the time depending on the time, the sun and the clouds. If it's a dull day I have to open right up to f8 and crank the ISO up. And I'm using the AF tape trick and it's working very well for me. I've been playing lately with motion blur, especially with a flying bird. letting the shutter speed drop a bit and praying for a decently sharp bird if you pan it right. Many times though this panning is not a pick up bird and follow smoothly along whilst holding down the shutter. No, I pick my moment and don't get a long pan at all but only a quicky grab. These birds move quickly. At time I will have a bird lined up and see it jump off and fly. Those are the times I get the best shots but I don't have the patience to sit all day waiting. However, going back day after day for a few minutes I eventually get lucky :-) long live digital - these shots were taken less than an hour before posting at no cost to me, and took about 15 minutes processing time, hardly time to warm up the scanner... -- Jim Davis Nature Photography http://jimdavis.oberro.com Replies in plain text only please! * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
