Crow chasing a red kite carrying a pike's head in its talons.
April 2018
Nikon D7200, Nikon 200-500mm ISO 400, f/7.1, 1/1600s, 500mm
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It should be interesting, I just hope the weight won't be an issue. A bit more light, a bit more reach when I want it, but also able to zoom down to 200mm when that bird I dearly want to photo has decided to hope really close and yes I've lost shots that way).
I do suspect at 800mm will prove rather hard to bring to bear on anything but a contentedly perched bird.
The Sigma range for Canon all need EF-RF converters, which are said to be good, but I suspect lose something. Indeed, I seem to remember looking closely at them many moons ago, and deciding they didn't meet my needs. That said, perhaps I should have returned to looking at them once more.
Canon get some serious stick for not letting companies like Sigma use the RF interface directly. However, I chose Canon before I knew about that issue, so am stuck with it unless I want to start from scratch.
I didn't realise the sigma needed an adaptor for cannon, I can understand why you would see that as a potential issue.
When I bought my first digital camera I spent months trying to decide which brand to go for. In the end I picked Nikon because of the backwards and sideways compatibility of the lenses. I'm too heavily invested in it now to change, but in the early days I might have considered it.
I must admit to enjoying the comments section on DPreview when I looked up your new lens. I'd forgotten what an enjoyable shitshow the fanboy posts are like; arguments over mtf charts and youtube reviews, that was 20 mins well spent lol.
Not sure I saw the same line of comments, but the one I started with guessed at no weather proofing, which wasn't a good start at truth. I feel I'm now committed so will take the normal fanboy choice of defending my choice to the death (errr ... maybe not).
Too invested to change - oh yes: 16mm, 35mm, 50mm, 100mm macro - v. nice, and a cheapie zoom I never use as it has no AF/MF switch, and the aforementioned 600mm. I do wonder if I should have gone the zoom route rather than prime, but choosing "today's lens" helps settle my mind in the right mode. So, a zoom is definitely an experiment.