Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Kinglet behavior and honking big lenses
Date: Jan 14 01:04:48 2011
From: Bill Anderson - billandersonbic at yahoo.com


Quoting Max --->?Couldn't get photos, as I had been using one of those notorious
"honking (expletive deleted) big lenses" to photograph a?gang of crows mobbing
an eagle who was eating a fish carcass, and so could not focus on the
little?kinglets ?up close. ? Art Morris, the?guru of bird photographers, advises
always carrying a second camera with a short zoom lens while working with big
long lenses, as one never knows when something interesting may happen at close
hand for which a short lens is needed. <----???

As?one who regularly carries a honking big lens (100-400 zoom)?attached to?my
Canon 7D,? I also carry a smaller lens?attached to?my Rebel XSi for occasions
such as the one Max experienced.?? I recently purchased Canon's 18-135 kit zoom,
which I have found to be the perfect lens for closer shots.? It fills the gap
between my 18-55 and 55-250 kit zooms so that I need only?pack a single lens for
the?Rebel. ???The double combo of 7D/100-400 zoom + Rebel/18-135 zoom is light
enough so that I can carry both cameras draped around my neck without any
physical discomfort.??? They were both?used extensively during?this week's photo
safari?to Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo.
Bill Anderson; Edmonds, WA. ??