puppleball, we've gotta go to the Fort Worth zoo with both the cameras (they have a Komodo dragon!). :D I went to my local zoo (last time it was the Dallas zoo, this time Fort Worth) to try out my other lens - a 70-210mm zoom. It worked out muchly nicely for taking photos of animals, although there were a couple of times I wished that I'd had the other lens, because I needed a wider angle. I can't show you how spiffy the tiger habitat is because my lens wasn't wide enough to show anything. Next time!