par4fore Loc: Bay Shore N.Y.

Send a private message instead of mucking up this thread, we don't want to know how smart you are. If you are trying to help everyone then start a new discussion somewhere else.
Dear OP, 400mm on a crop body should help but keep your shutter speed up above 1/800 (IMO)

Heather Iles Loc: UK, Somerset

Was that really necessary? I didn't know that he was taking an English lesson.

Perhaps you would offer advice on the Lens, as that was the question.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

So being helpful is not part of your agenda. I hope I spell pompous a$$ correctly.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

To summarize: "Lense is a misspelling of lens." Sometimes, more is less.

rmm0605 Loc: Atlanta GA

Thank you!! Another pet pieve of mine is the misuse of "it's." "It's" is a contraction meaning "It is." As in "It's hot," or "It's not." "Its" is a possessive form of it. So, "she took the camera out and fixes its lens."

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

FreddB Loc: PA - Delaware County

Sigma has a new 60-600 coming out
B&H is taking pre-orders
$1900 +/-
Only weighs about 6 pounds
😈😈😈

PeterBergh

I think people who argue spelling or grammar are barking up the wrong tree. What matters is whether the poster gets his or her message across. It's a different matter when writing for publication. In a forum the posts are ephemeral and not worth the additional effort to produce correct grammar and spelling.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Gee, I hope texts and tweets aren't critiqued as well. They seem to get their messages across.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Don't you just love the Grammar police?

TomC. Loc: Bel Air, MD

S, I agree with you 100%. You are fighting an uphill battle and you will lose every time. The usage of "lense and lens as plural" is very common. It drives me crazy. You'll run across that and many other misspellings as you read more and more posts. Some people don't know, some people don't care, some people refuse to learn a little bit and some people don't read their own post before sending it and ignore the red dotted line under the misspelled words.
This is not difficult stuff, people.
That's my rant for today.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Especially when they don't help the OP or constructively add to the thread.

olsonsview

One of the most petty issues that often creeps into forums like this involves the brands debate. Canon is better than Nikon, Nikon is better than Canon, both correct, yet both wrong! It is the photographer that is the pivotal point not his equipment! The moderators should just delete any comments that makes petty brand related jabs like that, and make the forum better for it! Please fellow members do not promote your favorite brand of equipment when the original question already indicates which brand the poster is using. The original post is not asking about switching brands. Geez !
Back to the original post, that mirror lens suggestion should provide a lot of reach for a small investment, but non zoom is only best if you have a good idea of the distance to your subject and how much the subject will fill the frame? A Celestron C-90 can give you a lot more reach than a 500mm, and often can be had for as little as $100, maybe $200 for a rubber armored with the "special coatings". Yeah the special coating is better. But all those options require you to manually focus quickly, unless far enough away from the subject to shoot at infinity. Also on a sunny day the highlights glistening off the water will look like loads of donuts are floating about.
The best answers are for a zoom like the Sigma Sport(weather sealed), and the Tamron G2. They are both of excellent quality for the investment and will focus faster than you can manually.

wmurnahan Loc: Bloomington IN

You can get a great deal on a new first generation right now 150-600, it is still a sharp lens.

BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

You could look at a used Tamron 150-600. I have one for sale. $400.