Re[2]: I need a bigger tripod

It's $$, but for handheld sports, birds and mammals the EF 400mm f/4 DO IS is excellent - chromatic aberration nearly absent, fast focusing, light at 4.3 lbs, and f/4 - the biggie! Love mine, especially on EOS 10D.


At 09:45 AM 10/27/2004, you wrote:

On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 11:36:44 AM, Mark Bohrer <lurchl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MB> Current EF 400mm f/2.8L IS weighs 13+ pounds, so I'd guess the FD lens at
MB> around 11 or 12.

Yes, the one I just sold was right at 12 pounds.  It is a great lens,
but to me it was just too heavy to get much use since I quit shooting
professional sports.  I ended up selling it and getting a Nikon 300
2.8 and the Nikon to EOS thing from Steve Gandy and now use that Nikon
300 2.8 on my EOS 1DII.  The 300 is less than 1/2 the weight of the
400 and this makes it easily hand holdable, esp with a pistol grip.
ALso the Nikon to EOS adapter is simply a piece of meata, the FD to
EOS adapter lost a stop of light, much less usefull...IMHO

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Harrison McClary
Harrison McClary Photography
http://www.mcclary.net
harrison@xxxxxxxxxxx


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