Talk about big guns....here is Reuters' photographer Dylan Martinez using a lens that he believes will give him the best shot of the new Pope to be.
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I will say it made me think just for a second, man the 800mm 5.6 is small, lol.
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REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
check more here: http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR3EXVC#a=1
Agree, the image is marginal....but, what conditions was he shooting....no light, so most likely wide open, slow shutter speed, High ISO. So.... I cannot imagine what shooting at 1700mm is like. At 800, things are shaking a bit already and more than twice this....
In theory, the shutter would be about 1/2000 sec. I am guessing the light was good for about ISO 400, f/2 at a 1/60 at best. So, F/8 at 1/2000 would require ISO 200,000 or maybe 1/500 sec at ISO 50,000.
Just my thoughts...
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I wonder how the new 800/5.6 with dedicated 1.25 extender and cropping would compare for this service. Under the described conditions, VR would probably help, even on a tripod.
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Nikon N90s, F100, F, lots of Leica M digital and film stuff.
(I believe Dylan Martinez actually uses a D4).
I did find the moire comment entertaining, though.
I, too, find the quality to be lacking but with journalism you really just don't know what the lighting conditions were and from my understanding there is almost never time to "process", I would imagine that is even more critical when something like this is going on, yeah? I'd give my left arm for the lens but I couldn't do it justice.
Wonder if the exif data can be found anywhere that gives this info?
I did find a couple other similar pictures from Canon shooters. One used a 800mm lens and the other a 1600mm lens, so quite similar to the picture above. The 1600mm one was taken at 1/160th of a second, f/11 and ISO 16,000 on a Canon EOS-1D X in manual mode. There is a subject distance marker of 73.3m but this data is often unreliable. Photographer: Gregorio Borgia via AP.
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