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Njardar

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Mono pods work great and can substitute as a walking stick. Tripods take too long to sit up.

Monopods are great and have their place. A one second + exposure for blurred water isn't one of them though.

John

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The Tamron sounds interesting for me, even though I've got plenty of lenses. My go-to telephoto is a 150-500 Sigma. I add a 2X doubler to it and can zoom in on critters a LONG way off...as long as the light is good. But you can never have too much zoom!

(By the way, for lower light situations I have a Canon 500 mm f/2.8, but it's so much bigger and heavier that it's just easier to use the Sigma for down and dirty wildlife shots.

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Yeah, if you're in a hurry maybe photography isn't your thing. Taking pitchers, well that's different.

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As soft is the ground will be this weekend, you should have no problems stabbing a monopod into the ground to stabilize.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Hunter S. Thompson

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As a general rule 1.4 times the focal length equals the slowest hand held shutter speed in the denominator (as in 1/x). My tripod converts to a monopod so I will be using one or the other depending what I'm going for that day. For wildlife I'll use the monopod and for landscapes the tripod. Maybe handheld with a higher ISO for handheld birds, ambient light permitting. This is a relatively slow lens with an f8 sweet spot.

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As soft is the ground will be this weekend, you should have no problems stabbing a monopod into the ground to stabilize.

Ha! Probably so.

John

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