Originally posted by richandfleur Genuinely annoyed at how expensive it is to go long on APS-C, especially with any quality and AF capability.
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Once you go beyond 200mm, things seem to get decidedly expensive. On any system I think. It's one case where a phone doesn't really cut it.
Originally posted by richandfleur I'm lucky enough to have access to the full adobe suite via my work, but even then Lightroom on subscription is pretty much the same as Lightroom standalone. Once you export your final image, that's then a normal file you keep outside of Lightroom. You would need an active subscription to access the editing stage, but it's doubtful anyone else would do that? At all times you keep your own source image and then the final exported image.[COLOR="Silver"]
I'm thinking in terms of edits that have been made but not exported. I know I don't always export full resolution images, or export watermarked ones for use online with the idea I can always go back and export full resolution ones at some later stage, but if I were to have an encounter with a proverbial bus, that might leave things awkward if an active subscription is required to export images, and I suspect I'm not the only one this might apply to.
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Originally posted by GUB Yes you pretty well have to be using a prime to combine these two. Guess my pick if I wanted to get serious about bird photog would be a F 300 or later coupled with a high megapickle apsc like the K3 etc. I tend to use my K-1 like a 15mp apsc for macro and telephoto.
AF would be a heck of a bonus with birding but things like fly pasts I think with a bit of fore-planning I could get by with MF.
A MF lens might not be so bad. The catch in focus function which I think doesn't work with AF lenses unless they have a MF switch on the lens itself, might actually be more useful than AF.
I haven't tried it, so don't know for sure.
The one thing I've found is that small birds are hard even at 500mm on APS-C, so you probably just about need some sort of hide to get really good bird photos.
The other thing I've found about birding, is that at the distance you need to photograph them to get a decent image, regardless of lens speed, you need to stop down quite a bit to get any DOF, so a fast lens isn't necessary if you have a body that can handle high ISO, but sharpness is with a small subject.