I always carry a second camera with a less than honkin' lens and I picked up some pretty nice photos of both kinglets on New Year's Day.

In addition, I only use my "big honkin' a$$ lens" for geese!

Joe Meche
Bellingham








-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Anderson <billandersonbic at yahoo.com>
To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 1:05 am
Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Kinglet behavior and honking big lenses



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.



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