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Panasonic 100-400mm vs others

Started Jan 15, 2016 | Discussions thread
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Re: Panasonic 100-400mm vs others
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Advent1sam wrote:

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)

The Fuji is an APSC lens and at 400mm will be "600mm" at 5.6 the same as the Panasonic at 300mm.....don't think it can be adapted to M4/3 currently...certainly not with a smart type adapter.

The Canon, well that will depend on what camera you use it on.....on an M4/3 camera it will be just the same focal lengths as the new Panasonic lens (but faster).

The Canon can be used on M4/3, APSC (1.5x and 1.6x) and FF.

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