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Well, collected my new 500 yesterday and waved good bye to the 400. It's a very different beast and will take some getting used to. I plan to head of to Wicken Fen early tomorrow morning to try and put it through it's paces properly but thought I would try a few in the back garden this afternoon.
Straight 500mm
With the 1.4x converter
Didn't realise that with the 2x converter it would almost be useful as a long range macro to get picks of damsel flies (the garden was heaving with them today)
And back to the 1.4x for some portraits of Frazzle - a key requirement for testing any new kit.
It looks like it's going to be a corker of a lens but that extra 100mm over the 400DO means an extra 2kg so I'm going to need to do a bit more practicing to get used to it.
Paul
Straight 500mm
![ME9Q9058-2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beastall.com%2Ftp%2FME9Q9058-2.jpg&hash=f8f0b1870de3916ca7722030027e9add)
With the 1.4x converter
![ME9Q9077-2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beastall.com%2Ftp%2FME9Q9077-2.jpg&hash=7c4dda5db807f94a7eb8431156699882)
![ME9Q9085-2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beastall.com%2Ftp%2FME9Q9085-2.jpg&hash=73d24901ceaa5c3ea99737abc567a04a)
Didn't realise that with the 2x converter it would almost be useful as a long range macro to get picks of damsel flies (the garden was heaving with them today)
![ME9Q9092-2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beastall.com%2Ftp%2FME9Q9092-2.jpg&hash=c7b484591317e4515b01698fed28f6ec)
![ME9Q9099-2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beastall.com%2Ftp%2FME9Q9099-2.jpg&hash=2c5cecee6b6756c94068b980385ea8ce)
![ME9Q9107-2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beastall.com%2Ftp%2FME9Q9107-2.jpg&hash=5c7f35c6e1325e6cc2cf47f123755b7e)
And back to the 1.4x for some portraits of Frazzle - a key requirement for testing any new kit.
![ME9Q9179-2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beastall.com%2Ftp%2FME9Q9179-2.jpg&hash=8f149b739967ac24aae50acece6126ab)
![ME9Q9258-2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beastall.com%2Ftp%2FME9Q9258-2.jpg&hash=0268ff6965908cec1d3abcc05896bf67)
It looks like it's going to be a corker of a lens but that extra 100mm over the 400DO means an extra 2kg so I'm going to need to do a bit more practicing to get used to it.
Paul