Chickadee portrait

Don Kondra

D7200/200-500mm @ 500mm, about 40% of the original image...



Cheers, Don

puzzledpaul

Looks like a pretty good - and (relatively) inexpensive rig for w/life shooters who don't want to go the third party lens route.
I'd be tempted if Canon extracted their digit and produced an equivalent ... for those walkaround times.

Btw, what do you mean by 40%?
You've thrown away 60% of the area /pixels of original frame or
the 2 sides of this pic are each 40% the length of the original frame sides ... making this crop 16% of orig area?

pp

Don Kondra

puzzledpaul wrote: »

Looks like a pretty good - and (relatively) inexpensive rig for w/life shooters who don't want to go the third party lens route.

Thanks Paul.

That pretty well describes my choice. I purchased the new 80-400mm shortly after it was released and then the new 200-500mm a week ago, always looking for "more reach" without selling a kidney

BTW > my 80-400mm needed to be sent back to Nikon for focus adjust. Came back spot on !

Before purchasing the 200-500mm I called the seller to inquire about similar issues and he told me they sent their entire stock back to be adjusted.

Btw, what do you mean by 40%?
You've thrown away 60% of the area /pixels of original frame or
the 2 sides of this pic are each 40% the length of the original frame sides ... making this crop 16% of orig area?

pp

From the original 6000 wide I've cropped to 2500 wide using a 4/3 ratio. So that would be 19.5% of the original area. Or 2500/6000=41.7 :ivar



Cheers, Don

Tony Britton

What a beautiful bird. Great job with this portrait!

Tony
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