… but I just like them so much. I’m particularly pleased both face and claws came out sharp.
Red Kite, Prospect Park, Reading, UK. Canon R5 mk II + RF200-800mm
… but I just like them so much. I’m particularly pleased both face and claws came out sharp.
Red Kite, Prospect Park, Reading, UK. Canon R5 mk II + RF200-800mm
Agree on both the weight and ISO fronts. It looks like the 200-800 is 2,050 grams. I use a Tamron 150-500, which weighs in at 1,870 or so grams.
I am vaguely fit in the ‘I worked out nearly 20 years ago and am now a Dad’ kind of way. I can hand hold the lens, and have for the occasional half inning of youth baseball, but I greatly prefer sitting on the ground and using a knee as a makeshift monopod. My personal weight threshold for hand holding seems to be around a kilogram. It’s too bad Sony’s 70-200 2.8 ii plus 2x teleconverter doesn’t hold up to the 150-500 in terms of image quality.
Youth sports tend not to be well shaded, but I still see 1,000+ ISO pretty frequently.
Does it not come with one?
Weight - sounds like you should do OK, and are used to the challenge, but I’d still recommend trying the lens on a camera in the camera shop first, if you are lucky enough that’s possible. The knee monopod - I know it well from the times I was able to use it! Oh, a factoid - handheld pointing directly upwards to spot goldcrests really emphasises the weight problem.
Hood - I can’t remember - now you mention it, it probably did, as the hood I use is a Canon one, and I’d guess there’s a plenty of cheaper third party options for me to have bought. So change the advice to “Actually use the hood you get, regardless of apparent need due to weather”.
Oh, I wasn’t the person who asked about the lens. I was only chiming in to agree on the weight factor.
And yes, agree on actually using the hood for exactly the reason you said. It’s nice to be able to put the good directly against a something like a chain link fence without having to worry about the front element.