My hubby and I are lucky enough to get to drive into Denali Nat'l park in September. We got to do this last year as well, and we saw at least 20 bears and a slew of other wildlife. It was wonderful, but we only had my husbands Nikkor DX 18-200mm 3.5-5.6G lens and we just couldn't get the zoomed in shots we dreamed of. I want to be so zoomed in I can pick the boogers out of a grizzly's nose!
We plan to use LensRentals.com to get a couple of telephoto lenses to bring with us. I'm using a D7000 which is my first DSLR and still pretty new to me (though I've at least made it through the manual
). The lens I'm looking at renting is the Tamron 200-500mm f/5.6-6.3 SP Di LD. What's got me worried is there's no sort of vibration reduction and I have a pretty unsteady hand. Sure, I'll be bringing a tripod with me, but I don't know whether I'll be able to handle this lens even if I used our vehicle for support if I needed a quick shot.
Any other lens suggestions would be welcome. While I didn't pick this lens because it's the cheapest, money is kind of an object. Not so much so that I want to cheap myself out of a decent lens, though.
We plan to use LensRentals.com to get a couple of telephoto lenses to bring with us. I'm using a D7000 which is my first DSLR and still pretty new to me (though I've at least made it through the manual
). The lens I'm looking at renting is the Tamron 200-500mm f/5.6-6.3 SP Di LD. What's got me worried is there's no sort of vibration reduction and I have a pretty unsteady hand. Sure, I'll be bringing a tripod with me, but I don't know whether I'll be able to handle this lens even if I used our vehicle for support if I needed a quick shot.Any other lens suggestions would be welcome. While I didn't pick this lens because it's the cheapest, money is kind of an object. Not so much so that I want to cheap myself out of a decent lens, though.