D30 Zoo

This subject is now featured inVolume 1,  Number 1of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal. 
A Digital Day at The Zoo
Using the D30 & 300mm f/2.8L IS Super Telephoto
A very gray, rainy November afternoon. I needed to do a survey of theToronto Zoofor an upcoming shooting project, so even though it was pouring I put on a rain slicker, hat and waterproof boots and headed out to the east end of the city.
On the way out the door I grabbed theCanon EOS D30and put on theCanon 300mm f/2.8L ISlens. The speed of this lens and its reach with the 1.6X magnification factor of theD30would make it the equivalent of working at almost 500mm‚ just right for isolating animals from their backgrounds, especially at this lens' maximum aperture of f/2.8.
Zoos have become somewhat politically incorrect these days, and I haven't been to the one in my hometown of Toronto for several years. It was fun. Even dedicated wildlife photographers can't get to Zambia for Lions, the Costa Rican rainfor...