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

Started Jun 1, 2014 | Discussions thread
luisflorit
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Indeed...

bgalb wrote:

Without commenting on the various photos shown on this thread, I find that my 100-300 is sharper at full zoom than my 50-200 SWD +1.4 TC. My 50-200 without the TC is an all around sharper lens than my 100-300 at any common zoom level.

Yes, I expect that too. I just didn't test it without the TC because I never use my 50-200 without it, since it is too short for wildlife photography. I think it is glued...

Edit: I can also hand hold the 50-200 at least 1 stop faster than the 100-300.

Interesting. We were discussing about this the other day. My conjecture is that this is because of inertia, since the 50-200+TC weights almost 2 pounds more than the 100-300. I will test that.

Something funny is that I expected to be able to handhold the 12-40 at 1/5s or so after what I saw about the 100-300, but was wrong. Need to go at 1/30s or so to get consistent results.

Cheers!!

L.

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