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100-300 vs. 50-200+1.4TC: surprised!

Started Jun 1, 2014 | Discussions thread
Brian Wadie
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75-300 at 300mm vs. 50-200 at 200mm long distance comparison

I thought the following two shots may be of interest here. I've recently picked up a used 50-200mk1 to go with the 75-300 mk2 on my EM-1

The 50-200 is specifically aimed at my water sports uses where the weather sealing is a real boon.

Yesterday I was shooting Thundercat racing on our local beach at Boscombe Pier in Dorset and a couple of miles west there was P1 Powerboat racing off Bournemouth (why do these events always occur at the same time! )

In a lull in the Thundercats I spotted the P1s were racing so took shots with both the lenses, shooting across rather hazy water (heat and mist haze)

The results surprised me

75-300 at 300mm f6.7

50-200 at 200mm f5

both are un-resized crops

I know from earlier experiments that with the EC-14 on I would not have expected the 50-200 to be as good as the 75-300 at this distance but to my eye there is little or no difference even though the crop is a bit larger with the 50-200

The distance is around 1.4 to 2 miles (its 1.4 miles pier to pier but this is on the diagonal and I couldn't see whether the race was to the East or West side of the pier)

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