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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
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