P.S. The Canon 400 5.6 non IS is a great lens if you can do without IS. Perfect for BIF where you would turn off IS anyhow. Sharp and the price is right at about $800-900 used. Adorama and, I think B&H also, have liberal return policies. Try it out. The 1.4 II works great with it also.
Tele extenders are really designed to be used with longer lenses. I use my Canon 1.4 III with a canon 70-200 2.8 II and 100-400 II with great success. Arthur Morris, Bird Guru at birdsasart, claimed the 1.4 II is as sharp as the version III. However, not so with the 2X. If you want long, I would go for a longer lens first.
The 5D III is my everyday camera.( 3-5 days a week). I bought a 7D II as a backup. I wish I hadn't. With the exception of the burst rate, I find the 5D III superior. If I had it to do it over again, I would borrow the extra $'s for another 5D III. Just MY experience.
Beautiful photographs, all.
The "moderators" changed my opinion of them, and, NOT favorably.
I had a similar experience with the broken handle on a ball head. I communicated with Germany. They sent one immediately from there. You can not beat that service. Thank you Cullman.
"Birds as Art" publishes one. Not cheap. Check it out.
Love my Nest Gimbal. But I prefer the freedom of hand holding for BIF. I even put the Nest on a small travel tripod collapsed to shortest length for low beach shooting. Love the dampening.
Still in North. Back around 15 Sept.
Hi Greg,
Just catching up to the last six posts. Love them all. Especially the hibiscus with the light coming through the leaves showing the "veins".
SharpShooter; you be right. Cheers.
The ANGLE of view is the angle of view. The angle of view of a lens describes a circle. A full frame sensor uses the maximum available of that circle. 24X36mm if i remember correctly the dimension of a 35mm frame. A crop sensor uses (in a Canon crop) 6 1/10's of the area available to the 35mm full frame format. Therefor one perceives that a 200mm lens on a crop sensor is equal to 320mm. It is not, the circle has been "cropped". So, if you cropped the full frame image to the size of a crop sensor image, did your lens magically become a 320mm lens ? The angle of view of a LENS does not change with the size of the sensor. The ammount USED of the angle of view changes with the size of the sensor.
Amount of pixels and their size is another subject.
RDH, I use both crop and full frame sensor Canons. I happen to like the results of the full frame and the larger pixels, even though they are fewer when cropped down to the size of a crop sensor. I also spent 20 years shooting for advertising agencies and magazines. I shot 35mm, 2 1/4, 4X5 and 8X10. I used many different lenses and know their coverage. If that makes me a snob, then, so be it. Possibly I didn't say it in a way understandable to you and others. Shoot more, learn more.
I have the 5D III and the 7D II. Taking into consideration your question, I get better results with the 5D III cropped to the dimensions of the 7D. Regardless of some of the comments; a 200mm lens is a 200mm lens. The magnification/angle of view is the SAME on both size sensors. If shooting a bird, for instance, the bird will be the same actual size on each sensor. The only difference is the crop sensor has cropped the image around the bird.
As the lens is internally focusing, you are holding a lens the length of a 200mm lens regardless of the zoom you have selected. I found it hard to hand hold and waited until I could get one with IS.
Borrow it and try if you can.