I photographed this baby cheetah during one of my photo tours to Namibia. It seemed to me at the time the expression on this little guy was like he was carrying the world's problems on his shoulders. This was the only trip to Africa in which I used a cropped sensor camera -- the Canon 7D Mark II. I thought that would solve the problem of having to carry one of the large super telephotos. I took this picture with a 400mm focal length on the 100-400mm zoom, and the crop factor of 1.6x gave me a magnification of 640mm. The problem, though, was that this camera was much too noisy. In bright light, like the open shade you see here, I could stay below 1000 ISO and therefore noise wasn't a problem. In dim light, though, the images from this camera are quite disappointing. Pictures taken at 1600 and above are essentially unusable. My settings were 1/800, f/10, and 800 ISO.
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