Hey before I wrap my workshop here in
Ethiopia I got to share with you my
incredible enthusiasm for the
NIKKOR 200-500mm
Let me give you a little background.
In coming to Ethiopia for this particular
workshop my intention was to share with
my students a number of incredible
tribes that live in the southwest part
of Ethiopia. Needless to say we've had a
phenomenal time. Take a look at
some of the examples up on the screen.
These are some of the tribal people that we were
fortunate to photograph and to be clear
these we're not shot with my 200-500mm.
So why am I excited though about the
200-500mm? Again my intention in this
workshop was to shoot tribal people and
we did a lot.
However I knew that Ethiopia has
an abundant amount of birds as well
as wildlife. So I brought the 200-500mm
along. As you may know I had this
lens for a little over a year and love it!
Absolutely love it, in conjunction with the TC-1.7
that's Teleconverter, in conjunction with
the D7200 this is like the wild wildlife
photographers dream. A 200-500mm
TC-1.7 coupled with the crop sensor
of the D7200, I've got from
200mm all the way to 1275mm
Yes it's a little slow f5.6 - f9.5 at that
point however with the low noise ISO's
that are found on the Nikon system
who cares about the slowness of these
lens? You compensate by increasing
your ISO most of the photographs you're
looking at right now were all shot at
1,600 ISO. Some upto 2500 and
a few at about a 1000
I dare you to show me
where noise is an issue but more importantly
these are uncropped frame filling
images of both birds and animals all shot
with this NIKKOR 200-500mm in conjunction
with TC-1.7 and often times on my
D7200 other times I did shoot with the
D810 my point in sharing all this with
you is simply this; you could spend
six, seven or eight thousand dollars on a
single focal length NIKKOR lens such as
a 400mm f2.8 or a 600mm at f4,
but why why? When you can spend $2,000
for the lens 200-500mm with a TC-1.7
actually under $2,000 for both those
pieces, then you add on a $1,000
Nikon D7200 you're still under $3,000
That's half as much, in some cases only a
third as much and that sharpness, oh my god
this doesn't get any better than this, you guys!
Look you know me seldom in my
You keep shooting videos do I get all
excited about equipment you know.
Equipment is equipment, but this, the value,
the sharpness, the clarity the color,
the contrast it's all here. If you're
looking for the ultimate Nikon
wildlife photographers system, in my opinion
the NIKKOR 200-500mm coupled with a TC-1.7,
coupled with a D7200 but still under
$3000 and there's nothing, nothing
you will find that you are not
able to shoot. That's how confident I am in
this setup. I just spent two weeks here
Ethiopia doing just that and I've
wanted for nothing else than what I got
right here, look I hope this helps you making a
super-duper informed decisions if you're
thinking about buying some long lenses.
It's all right here, this is all you're going to
need NIKKOR 200-500mm and let's be
clear about something else I do shoot
more often than not with the monopod
attached to the tripod collar,
ok, that's going to be important as well
for stability and for extra sharpness, ok?
Ok so what's it going to be?
NIKKOR 200-500mm, TC-1.7
and a Nikon D7200 body
Hey I'm coming to you from Ethiopia, didn't want
to leave without sharing this enthusiastic
review for this whole setup and if
you're interested in participating in
any of my workshops including next
year's Ethiopia go to
www.bryanfpetersonphotoworkshops.com
and learn more.
Hey until next time this is Bryan Peterson
from Ethiopia reminding all of you,
you keep shooting!