VERY cold and blustery, just what every shooter hopes for. No wait, is that snow on April 20th? SWEET!!!! Yeah, it was that kind of day. To make it worse, our boys played inconsistently but still managed to keep hopes of advancing alive at the end of the day. Here's a few shots, all with a Canon 1D3 and 70-200 f2.8 MkII with 1.4x tc. Exif intact. Still haven't gotten edits down on the new monitor as everything seems to really lack pop on this screen yet seems too contrasty on my home monitor...
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! With the new 70-200 MkII and older 1.4 though, I feel like the give up just isn't that big, if at all. I'd have no reservations in recommending this combo to anyone looking for some reach on the cheap. The key to making it effective is really just about being patient and letting that action come to me so as to avoid huge crops. Frankly, this is true with the 300 as well. If you really wanted reach, I think you need to get to 400 at least and then I'd say the 400 f/5.6 or 100-400 would be decent options for relatively little cash. If you want to throw a little more at it, the non-IS 300 f/2.8 with a 1.4x will get you close to 400 and could probably be found for something in the low $2k USD range.
