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Field Herping Lenses...

Pruddock

Pruddock

Gig 'Em Ags!! Whoop!!
What are yall's favorite lenses for field herping? I use a vivitar 70-210mm telephoto zoom on my nikon and an 28-90mm canon lens on my canon. Just wanted to know what ya'll use when you go field herping...
 
This is a point-and-shoot Casio Exilim 10mp.

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I have a fancy Olympus with all kinds of lenses- it never leaves the house.

Nanci
 
It heavily depends on what you are searching for in the field:

When I'm just walking around, I try to have a tele-zoom lens with me, currently, I'm using a 100-400 Canon lens. Although it fails in bad weather and a too near distance (maybe a snake or something directly in front of your feet), I can easily switch from smaller reptiles that may easily abscond to big animals or birds.
If we are looking especially for Vipers, I mostly have my 100mm macro on the cam.
If I'm exploring a new habitate, I use a 18-55 lens, so that I can easily take some shots of the nature and good places.
 
See, what I really would like to get (if i had the money) is a nice macro lens for good close ups. Right now my favorite for what I have when I'm looking specifically for snakes is my Canon 28-90 with a UV filter on it.
 
If you also like to take close-up of venomous snakes, I would recommend at leat an 100mm Macro. An UV-Filter is useless for digital cameras, cause the sensor does not care about UV-light - so all you do is decrease the quality. There are better filters e.g. protection filters to protect your front lens.
 
Either way, a 100mm Macro would be fine for you. There are several "cheap" ones out there like the SIGMA or TAMRON (90mm) or relativly older ones that you can find at ebay. Imho, if you use a common 35mm and since you may have time to manually focus, get some older Macro lens and safe money.
 
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