40 years ago I did Nature Photography, especially birds, I shoot an entire book with two A-1's and mainly a FD 300mm F4L with extender. I switched to video 25 years ago continuing with Nature and Wildlife. On those days, on Betacam and later DVcam used the original zoom lens with B4 extender and the very same above lens with or without extender. Switched to Canon XLH1 when SD died (a nightmare as a gear but with great canon EF lenses) and later Sony NX5 with a big Raynox HDP-9000EX in front of it. Recently sold the video gear and entered the 70D field to do time lapse and keep doing video on wildlife when possible. I bough a very good kept FD300mm F4 and even better 2X FD-A extender for the job (that now I am selling) but went very disappointed about the quality because of the FD to EF adapter. Changing the mount to EF is out of the question, too expensive.
I have been looking for a 300, 400 or 500 mm manual focus lens 9no matter aperture, I shoot at f8 minimum) to do the job but I've not been able to find something to be worth a try. Tamron's and Sigma's are zoom lenses with a very diminished capacity on the last range of the zoom and really Canon prime are too expensive for a hobby, I am now a pensioner.
Wondering if someone can recommend me some old lend with EF mount that could give decent image for video. Remember that I still have the chance to use the 3X of the camera to zoom thru, works very well with the sigma 18-250 (1200 in the end) but sometime I need to reach 2000mm with small birds very far. Australia is not as easy as South America regarding birds diversity and quantity.
I have been looking for a 300, 400 or 500 mm manual focus lens 9no matter aperture, I shoot at f8 minimum) to do the job but I've not been able to find something to be worth a try. Tamron's and Sigma's are zoom lenses with a very diminished capacity on the last range of the zoom and really Canon prime are too expensive for a hobby, I am now a pensioner.
Wondering if someone can recommend me some old lend with EF mount that could give decent image for video. Remember that I still have the chance to use the 3X of the camera to zoom thru, works very well with the sigma 18-250 (1200 in the end) but sometime I need to reach 2000mm with small birds very far. Australia is not as easy as South America regarding birds diversity and quantity.
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