fbeaston wrote:
I would have agreed with you ... until the next to last day of a recent trip to Yellowstone ... I lugged a bunch a lenses because we were in a van. We saw 3 grizzlies, 2 grey wolves & a bunch of buffalo, all in the same "pasture" with the bears 250 to 300 yards away ... the sun had set & the light was failing fast. That's when I hauled out my 500 mm f/4L prime lens ... & kept shooting even after everyone else had stopped. As a result, I captured a grizzly confronting a grey wolf ... & the male & female grizzlies mating. It took a fair amount of PP & I struggled with some grain, but it was worth lugging that big lens around. My college buddy & a lady standing next to me, both of whom had stopped shooting, wanted copies of my photos when they saw them on the back of the camera. So I say if you have room ... take them. It can't hurt ... & you might get lucky like I did. I wouldn't have gotten them with my 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L lens.
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I agree. I brought my 200-500 (w/1.4 teleconverter) . Would not have been able to capture this grizzly without the big one. I also captured a wolf snagging a bison calf.