michael_rutherford

if money isa big concern get the 400 2.8 you are right on about the different focal lenghts is allows you with teleconverters.

I have one and use it routinely

ART MORRISS A well known bird photographer has done shots with stacked converters and converters and exstension tubes and his shots routinely show up in Audobon, sibleys, and other famous bird magazines. He is a working pro and does this for a living. He takes good shots with teleconverters. Mind you he uses canon teleconverters not cheap no name brands. So yes use 400 2.8 and a 1.4 and 2x teleconverter and with the new sereies II converters you can stack them and get even more range.

I routinely print 16x20 pics with no problem that turn out sharp. Mind you Art and me both have really good tripods and tripod heads.

Thanks and good luck Mike :0

Just a thought as there are so many versions and things change from version to version maybe have a photoshop v5, v6, and new v7 forums as alot of the things I used to do in v5 dont work in 7 now and vice versa. That way I dont have to look thru all the crud of older versions if I have the latest and the old guys dont have to look at all the new stuff about healing brushes if they are still using v5

Just a thought to even more break it down. Thanks Mike :)