{"id":3166,"date":"2010-11-16T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T18:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2011-03-14T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:15:05","slug":"the-three-big-canon-gear-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2010\/11\/16\/the-three-big-canon-gear-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Big Canon Gear Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Brown Pelican in Peach Heaven, La Jolla, CA. I created this image on Monday morning past with my favorite new combo, the hand held 70-200 f\/2.8L IS II lens, the 2X II TC, and the EOS-1D Mark IV. Flash at zero. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +2 1\/3 stops: 1\/60 sec. at f\/6.3 in Tv Mode (to control a minimum shutter speed). See more on this image here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The Three Big Canon Gear Questions<\/h2>\n

#1: How much will the new Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II weigh?<\/p>\n

#2: How much will the new Canon EF 600mm f\/4L IS II weigh?<\/p>\n

I saw and lifted the new Canon 400mm f\/2.8L IS II (never a choice of mine for bird photography but great in some situations and for photographing big mammals in low light) and was blown away by its small size and light weight. The brand new EF 400mm f\/2.8L IS II USM weighs just 8.5 lbs., a whopping 28% lighter than the current EF 400mm f\/2.8L IS USM lens. Amazing. Though I am positive the that weight reduction in the new 500 and the new 600 will not be as great percentage-wise as it is with the 400 2.8, I am eagerly awaiting the official weigh in \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

#3: What’s the real story with the two new Series III teleconverters? <\/p>\n

Though nobody knows anything for sure as the neither the 1.4X TC III or the 2X TC III have been available for testing, here is the official wording.<\/p>\n

“Extenders EF 1.4X III and EF 2X III have been newly developed in conjunction with the new Series II Image Stabilizer EF super-telephoto lenses. They can also be used with all previously announced extender-compatible EF lenses, but maximum performance is achieved when they are used with the new 300mm, 400mm, 500mm and 600mm lenses. The following sections provide more detailed information.”<\/p>\n

The above from the info packed article by Chuck Westfall here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I have learned that the two new TCs each have a micro-computer that will be able to communicate only with the four new super-telephoto lenses and that the vastly improved speed of initial focusing acquisition and more accurate focus tracking will only be there with the four new lenses. There will be improvement in image quality with all of the older compatible lenses (again, see Chuck’s article here<\/a>), but they will be marginal. <\/p>\n

Shopper’s Guide<\/h2>\n

Here is a list of the gear that I used to create the image above: <\/p>\n

Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II lens<\/a>
\nCanon EF Teleconverter 2X II<\/a>
\nCanon EOS-1D Mark IV professional digital camera body<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are considering the purchase of a major piece of photographic gear be it a new camera, a long lens, a tripod or a head, or some accessories be sure to check out our complete Shopper’s Guide.<\/a\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Brown Pelican in Peach Heaven, La Jolla, CA. I created this image on Monday morning past with my favorite new combo, the hand held 70-200 f\/2.8L IS II lens, the 2X II TC, and the EOS-1D Mark IV. Flash at zero. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +2 1\/3 stops: 1\/60 sec. at f\/6.3 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89","category-photo-equipment","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}