A distracted Lemur (C&C welcome)

Hi all,

Was at the zoo the other day and took several pics (just noticed I have to change the date on my framing script), this one was of a little lemur that posed just too perfectly for me!

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Was this pictured cropped heavily? The reason i ask, is because i see a little too much noise, and lost of detail.

As for range, 200mm should be sufficient for zoolife in general. It's a good idea to carry an 1.4xTC in case you need more range. Wildlife on the other hand, would need at least 400mm because you don't always get to stand close to the subject. Or at least it's not safe to do so with bigger animals. When it comes to birds, there is no maximum IMHO. The longer the lens, the better.

Hi cfcRebel,

Unfortunately, I had two things going against me in this pic -

1) I had to use a high ISO as it was (1000)
2) You were right, I had to crop a lot. I tried to zoom in farthur but the shutterspeed dropped down dramatically beyond where I could handhold and get a semi-sharp pic. Luckily it looks a bit better printed (although not by much, good enough for a 4x6) then on the screen

Thanks for the tip. I don't know when I'll be able to afford some longer lenses, but I really want some.

I had a bigma, but I just couldn't get really comfortable with it, and ended up selling it - now wishing I had kept it and really spent more time learning it.

-Tony

I know what you mean. I was intimidated by her too at first. Later after i bought her three legs (tripod), she's much happier.

My hands are not steady enough to handhold anything beyond 300mm. So i have to rely on a tripod, or monopod at least.

Same Lemur exhibit, same zoo with the 300 2.8 and 5D

I think you have some white balance issues looking at your zoo pics. Shoot raw and use daylight for a starting point.

At the zoo the 100-400L is superb, the 70-200 2.8 (with 1.4X) is ok and the 300 2.8 is fabulous!

I really recommend you get the 100-400L.

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My fav combo for zoo and wildlife parks is the 20D and 100-400 L.

I don't know if I'm having a real white balance issue or if it's some other settings I have wrong in either the camera or in my RSP. The biggest difference I can see between our pictures - aside from more light and sharper, is richer color. AFAIK default conversion info is stored with the shot for the converter program, I have mine set for faithful, I don't know how RSP might utilize that to set the initial settings, but as I recall, it was all 0's.

I'll look at the pics again in RSP and change from AWB to Daylight and see what happens.

If I only had a spare $4K, I'd love to have that lens =)

-Tony