Choice of lens can very much depend on type of animal and photo options. I could not tell from your post if you have direct experience with photographing live, wild, or recently caught reptiles. If you have such experience, please forgive my trying to tell you something you already know. Excluding the nicety being able to keep some distance from venomous snakes most of the small, wild animals I have tried to photograph will run long before I can get close enough for my 100mm macro to be of much use. Recently I tried to photograph Great Basin Collared Lizards (about 10 inch long) here in western Nevada, USA. If I were on foot they would run before I got within 8 feet. I have found my 300 mm telephoto to be useful. I have not had a chance to experiment with extension tubes yet.
If you are photographing inside some kind of cage or other enclose none of this applies. Good luck. George Baumgardner - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
