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400mm on a Canon EOS 500D

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redsimon Regular Member • Posts: 265
400mm on a Canon EOS 500D

Happy with my 500D, which has a 15-85mm IS and a 70-300mm IS.  They're fine, but I need longer reach.

I want a reach of 400mm, preferably on a zoom, say 200-400mm or 100mm-400mm.  But you can see the rest of my kit is quite economical, so it wouldn't be appropriate to sell my new car just to buy a 400mm lens.
Is there a lens, or even a lens converter, that will inexpensively give me reasonable quality 400mm at a reasonable price.  I mainly want to use it to photograph motor racing, being able to zoom in as cars approach me and out as they go away from me.  I expect to be shooting around 1/400th or faster at around f8 tracking the passing vehicles in summer light.

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Passionate about cars and lovely places, and trying in vain to use a creative eye and a carefully set up camera to capture both. (http://www.simoncars.co.uk)

 redsimon's gear list:redsimon's gear list
Canon EOS 500D Canon EOS 70D Canon EOS 80D Canon EF 28-135mm F3.5-5.6 IS USM Canon EF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6L IS II +2 more
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Canon EOS 500D (EOS Rebel T1i / EOS Kiss X3)
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