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Poll: What lens do you want to see next?

Started Nov 18, 2014 | Polls thread
Lee Jay Forum Pro • Posts: 56,673
Re: It is odd, indeed, that...

Great Bustard wrote:

BigBen08 wrote:

500mm f5.6

And price it so the average person can afford.

...Canon has a 300/2.8, 300/4, 400/2.8, 400/4, 400/5.6, 500/4, 600/4, and 800/5.6, but no 300/5.6, 500/5.6, or 600/5.6.

Canon has four 300/5.6s - the 75-300IS, 70-300IS, 70-300DO, and 70-300L.  They also have the 600/5.6 in the form of the 300/2.8+2x.

The big gap in the Canon lineup is between the expensive but sort-of reasonable telephotos with around 71.4mm of aperture and the next step up to those with 100mm of aperture, which cost three to five times as much.  Sigma has the 120-300/2.8 and two 150-600s in that range.

For years I've said that Canon needs a $3k-ish telephoto.  Personally, I think the ideal one would be either a 350/4 or a 1xx-350/4, for somewhere in that $3k range.  350/4+1.4xTC = 500/5.6.

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