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Panasonic 100-400mm vs others

Started Jan 15, 2016 | Discussions thread
Advent1sam
Advent1sam Veteran Member • Posts: 9,089
Re: Panasonic 100-400mm vs others

Martin.au wrote:

I appreciate Panasonic's design choices. There's now two other 100-400 lenses, both f4-5.6 out now.

• Panasonic 100-400 f4-6.3 comes in at almost exactly the same size as the 40-150 f2.8 + TC.

83mm x 172mm & 985gm

• Fuji's 100-400 f4.5-5.6

95mm x 211mm & 1375gm

• Canon 100-400 f4-5.6

94mm x 193mm & 1550gm (1615gm with foot).

Given those weights and sizes, I'm quite glad Panasonic went with the smaller aperture. At that size, it's compatible with all my existing bags, and anything I've built to hold the 40-150+tc (eg: my kayak deck bag).

Hopefully that lens will perform, too.

Except Pana is 200-800 (f5.6 @600mm) the others are 150-600 and the 1.4 tc makes them 200-840 (f8)

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