Edinburgh Zoo Picspam

[symm76]

My first visit to the zoo with a new camera and lens turned out pretty well.
Click each photo to see a larger version over at flickr.

Comments

[foxestacado]

OH my...these are gorgeous! What is your new camera and lens?

[symm76]

Thanks! Lovely to hear from you. Hope you are well. Been reading your recent posts but have been terribly lazy about replying to people lately.

My new camera is a Canon 40D, lens is the 70-200. Very nice for zoo shots. :-)

[foxestacado]

Oh man, your 70-200 looks like it's super sharp. Did you use a tripod? Is it an IS?

I don't use Canon, I have the Nikon equivalents. I haven't really used my 70-200 in broad daylight, so I honestly don't know how sharp it is.

[symm76]

Handheld but it does have IS. It was a nice sunny day too, which helped a lot. I'm thinking about buying a teleconverter to get in closer still. I'd love a 300mm but can't really afford that. My next purchase will probably be a nice macro lens. What an expensive hobby! Sharpness is pretty great and bokeh is lovely too but I still sharpen a bit during editing.

I love my Canon. :-)

[foxestacado]

Wow, a 70-200 IS? That is really my dream, to get a 70-200 VR. (VR is the equivalent to the Canon IS). I love my 18-55 mm VR lens, but a 70-200 VR is really so expensive.

[foxestacado]

Oh yeah, and photography is a massively expensive hobby. I bought everything used, and I have now four lenses...and I've spent more than $2000 on everything.

[symm76]

It really is expensive, yeah. Depressingly so. I want to achieve better results but am limited by the lenses I can afford, which is frustrating. Still, this is the most rewarding hobby I've ever had - it's like therapy!