I headed out freezing cold (37° and dropping) to chase sunrise and whatever wildlife would cooperate, and I ran the Canon R6 III with one of Canon’s most underrated lenses: the RF 800mm f/11. I’ll be honest—this lens is terrible in really low light, and I was pushing ISO 12,800 a lot. But the whole point of this video is that on these newer full-frame bodies, high ISO just isn’t the deal-breaker it used to be, especially if you’re sensible with your exposure and you clean things up in Lightroom Classic (that’s all I use). I photographed vermilion flycatchers (male and female), little black phoebes/flycatchers, tons of bluebirds, plus some raptors and white pelicans at a second location. The backgrounds weren’t always ideal—sometimes you get stuck with blue sky—but I still like the bokeh this lens can give when you work for a darker background. The big takeaway: the 800 f/11 (and the 600 f/11 too) is a lightweight, inexpensive walkaround option that can make genuinely fantastic wildlife images if you accept the trade-offs and use modern camera sensors and editing tools to your advantage.