Who knows, that was years ago. I'd be betting it was at least 1/1000th if not faster and the ISO would have been pushed to give me the shutter speed needed. As I remember, the last shot was at a local bird refuge and shot using my vehicle as a blind. So the lens was steadied by a beanbag I use over the window frame of the vehicle. So shutter speed could have been lower than the others as I would just need to ensure it was at around 1/500th to ensure no motion blur from the bird moving.

I moved from this lens to an old Nikon 800/5.6 ED lens that at first I used on a Nikon DSLR and then I adapted to work on EOS with my other lens. That was a heavy beast that I avoided handholding whenever I could. I remember working a bear once with it when I had no tripod. I had to steady it against trees and other brush to even try and get a decent shot.





At the other end of the spectrum is my old bellows setup that seen a lot of use with flower macro shots and the like. I need to break that back out and do some more work with it. Such a technical piece of kit to use as at high magnification even your own breath could move the subject and mess up the shot.



Another victim of my bad knees. Hard to use this in a lot of situations when you have problems getting down onto the ground. And back up, LOL!