On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:22:17PM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: >What I'd want though is small and light with excellent optics. >Yes there're such in the short prime category, but I want something >to shoot birds with when hiking in the wilderness, and I can only >carry so much... on top of a tent, food for a week &c the 100-400L >does begin to feel rather heavy. :-(
For starters, ditch the tent! You need two black plastic garbage bags. One to put over your backpack, and one for you to huddle inside under a tree. Depending on how heavy your tent is, you might have already made enough allowance for the lens. I'd suggest that you get a P&S with a stupid-long optical zoom and a small tripod for backpacking trips. Save the real optics for day hikes when the weight is more managable. -- void *(*(*schlake(void *))[])(void *); * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
