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[redrider]

Hey Don, Is it possible to see some of your pictures and say what distance they were and which lense you used. I'm having a hard time figureing a workable distance with which lense. Like how close does a deer need to be to get a good quality shot with a 200mm. Thanks for the help. I'm really liking this idea of hunting with the camera before season and after I've tagged out. Have seen some incredible animals that I only wish I had a picture of!

[Don Fischer]

Absolutely. But it'll have to wait untill I get back on my own computer, this is my grandson's.

When I really got going , pre-digital, my longest lense was a 70-210 Nikon. It severally limited me to get some close up's I thought I wanted. When I did get them, it involved a lot of work, A LOT!!! I then went to a 70-300 and it helped some. But mostly I think my attitude about what made a good photo changed. Unless there is something really remarkable about an animal, a frame filling shot with little or no forground and background becomes just another photo of that animal, just like thousands of other's. But other times the full frame shot does work, albit rarely.

About the max distence you'll get a good deer photo with a 200mm lense would be somewhere around 50 to 75 yds. Yet if you were to put a 1.4 or 2x multiplier on it, you could streach to over 100 yds. Then too you'd pick up a bit more with the regular lense in place of the digital lense. I have some African animals I shot on a presurve at around 150 to 175 yds that made good photo's

What ever camera you get, befor you chunk down for any 200mm lense, look at some 80-400mm lenses. They will be light years ahead for wildlife.

Soon as I can I'll get you off some photo's and what lenses they were taken with and the distances as best I can remember.

Don


Well the grandson did some voodoo stuff to my computer and now it works on their phone line.

[Don Fischer]

Well deleted three so can get three more here. These were all shot with a 70-300 Sigma. Not an endorsement for Sigma tho as I believe that the Camera manufactures lenses or other after market lenses would have given at lesat the same results.

[ChesterGolf]

After a lot of research, I bought my wife the olympus evolt E-500 with the two lens kit last Christmas. She has friends in the photography industry that have much more expensive cameras that don't have some of the features on the e-500. She is producing some truly amazing stuff with that camera and couldn't be happier. Like Don said... too many viable choices.

[redrider]

Yes, lots of choices for sure.

Don thanks abunch those pictures and knowing the distance really helps. I am convinced I need to get at least a 300mm lense. Thank you very much for the help. Hopefully I will have something pick out in the near future.

[redrider]

What do you guys think about these two kits?

http://www.bestpricecameras.co.....;up=215535

http://www.bestpricecameras.co.....;up=215535

[ChesterGolf]

Out of the two I'd grab the second one. Having an extra lens included will save you $$$ in the future. Lens are expensive. First one doesn't have a UV filter either and that is important for the protection of your lens as well as better looking pictures.