>>3760299I stand in front of a pole or something, so it can never be said I am blocking the flow...and to lean on. Some people just like to ignore everyone, but i'm sure most people notice me in some way or another. i am 6'4" after ll.
>zonenope. Not with DOF thats inches deep at most human-scaled distances, and moving targets.
cats are always fixed-aperture too. So generally that means f/8
>focus-peekGood luck shooting that focallenght via live-view.
Best advice is buy a high contrast focusing screen with NO MARKINGS wehatsoever.. no prisms, no hemisphere... just a screen cut from a canon high contrast screen to fit your camera. And use the optical viewport.
>more consciousNope. It just alters the distance you shoot them from. Humans with damages senses of reality and dark projective personalities often presume evil whens seeing a long lens from the side....held by a male older than 20...But they are fucked in the head, so their opinion is invalid.
>hard to get sharpimpossible, but the lens you get makes all the difference to being able to add pyramidal detail-based contrast and saturation in post...and just trying to polish turds in post.
Best 500mm I have are:
Tamron Adaptall2 SP 500mm f8 mirror 55BB
is tiny and light with a very slick focusing helicoid, but dark as fuck to look through..so hard to focus even in full sun.
ZM-6A 500mm f6.3 Mirror M42
is big, heavy and russian-stiff helicoid, but easily the one i goto when wanting proper cat action.
There may be others that don't suck, but not the sigma/bower types.
At the end of the day they are a difficult lens though, so I do not recommend in general.
If you can find a :
MTO-11CA__MTO-11 1000 mm f10 Maksutov Tele-Optic
buy it just so you can leave it on a surveyors tripod and use it for astro or something involving shooting at distances where atmosphere density starts to affect the images.
