Rebel 600D

[lurp]

What type of lens would you suggest for the Rebel 600D for wildlife photography? Pictures would be most of deer taken from a treestand. Some pictures would be taken in low light situations. Most of the pictures would be taken between 20 and 50 yards. Open for suggestions. I have not purchased the Rebel 600D yet, how do you think the camera would work for what I want to use it for?

[henkbos]

Guess you talk about the 300D? Good start will be the 300 f/4L with Extender. IF the budget doesn't allow look in to the zoom 75-300.

[Belmondo]

I'm guessing, but I think you're talking about the 300D which will work fine for wildlife photography. If you're looking for something that will work in low light situations at those distances, you're probably going to need something like a Canon 70-200 f/2.8L with image stabilization. Anything bigger will be obscenely expensive, and anything smaller will not get the job done. You can also use the 1.4X and 2X extenders with that lens, giving you up to 400mm, although you'll lose a couple f-stops. Also consider similar lenses from Sigma if budget is a problem.

Good luck.

Tom

[EXA1a]

Since the Rebel 600D has the same pixel density (pixels per square inch) as the 300d but a full frame (35.8 x 23.8 mm) sensor, it has 15.6 megapixels. You could use a pretty slow lens (100-400/4.5-5.6L) even for low light conditions because this camera can combine 4 pixels to one (makes a virtual 4 mp sensor resolution) with up to ISO 12800 with virtually zero noise.
By the way: How could you afford this camera?

Have fun
--Jens--

[minicooper]

Am I missing something? What's a 600D?

Tom

[CyberDyneSystems]

:scratch head:

Seems Lurp and EXA1a have there own language going here? Even Google doesn't know what a Canon 600D is!? :)

A full frame 13 megapixel canon SLR? And it is supposed to be a "Rebel" (ie: cheap :) )

[CyberDyneSystems]

heh,

12800 ISO!!!!!!! :D


Now you guys are just putting us on :)

[ilya]

EXA1a wrote:
Since the Rebel 600D has the same pixel density (pixels per square inch) as the 300d but a full frame (35.8 x 23.8 mm) sensor, it has 15.6 megapixels. You could use a pretty slow lens (100-400/4.5-5.6L) even for low light conditions because this camera can combine 4 pixels to one (makes a virtual 4 mp sensor resolution) with up to ISO 12800 with virtually zero noise.
By the way: How could you afford this camera?

Have fun
--Jens--

I heard the 600D comes with a 70-200 L IS already, plus a 4 gb flash card, Photoshop CS, and two 550EXs all as part of the standard kit. Sweet package.

[lurp]

Got some good answers and confused some people that the same time. I was talking about the new 300d that has 6.3 MP.