Getting Canon 200-400 f4 L this weekend...advice?

johnf3f said:
danski0224 said:
Wouldn't it be cool if Canon dropped a 400-600 f/4 DO 1.4x IS?

;D

Ditch the zoom and IS functions and I will be right with you!
A 600 F4 DO including a 1.4 extender would be very interesting - but no zoom and IS please.

A 600 f/4do is still going to have a 150mm front, and just as many elements as the regular 600. It would likely cost substantially more as well. It would be shorter but that is the only real benefit.
 
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Ok....... it's over.... I'm nearly blind in both eyes from staring through the OVF for 3 hours at a time.... 4 shows. 160 dance number.... 12,000 frames shot. Apart from the lower lighting than a camera would like, we have Fresnels, Leicos, LEDs, and a huge 12 foot tall, 30 foot wide solid LED wall all at different color temps.... yeah.

It's the one of the most challenging things I can image as a photographer, but it's always fun. I haven't even really looked at the RAW files yet closely, but what I have seen looks pretty good.

Auto ISO (much less AUTO anything) was still a no-go this year. There is still waaaaaaay to many lighting schemes on stage (and a fog machine to create the light beam effects) that wrecks hell on a metering system. Full manual with dialing on the fly as needed worked much better.
 
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PureClassA

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Wish I could explain how utterly ridiculous it was to trap dancers moving at Mach 2 with at least 1/500th a second with all that crap going on! ISO 6400 all the way.

Jim Saunders said:
You weren't kidding about the lights! Pink Floyd would be proud of that setup.

Jim
 
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