Shot with a Fuji X-T50 with 55-200mm lens. This is the second time I have been out with this lens, and it is a fraught experience that makes better results that I expect when I am shooting. The body is small and light and the lens extends forward (telescopes) as you increase focal length.
At longer focal lengths the focus point in the viewfinder weaves about, and I feel like a drunken man trying to pin the donkey. But somehow the camera makes up for my deficiencies in keeping the lens still.
Out of the 160 shots, very few were misses. But still the experience is not pleasant at the moment of shooting. A heavier body would help. A lens that didn’t telescope (or trombone, as it is sometimes called) would also help.
A long lens certainly lets you get in and isolate a subject. And I am already thinking of the next event when I may have a heavier camera that enables me to hold more steady on the subject.
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