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Who Chose the 300 f4 over the 100-400 for Birding and Why?

Started Jul 29, 2016 | Discussions thread
drj3 Forum Pro • Posts: 12,634
Re: Who Chose the 300 f4 over the 100-400 for Birding and Why?
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I chose the 300mm f4 because of the f4 aperture and because I expected the Olympus as a prime to be sharper.  I often use the lens with the MC14, but I often find that this requires too high an ISO and I remove the MC14 to lower the ISO, even in midday.  I rarely find that I want anything less than 300mm for birding and often want more than the 420mm (MC14+300mm), so the zoom was not that important.  I do have the 50-200 SWD + EC14 for situations when I need a zoom, however, I haven't actually used that combination for wildlife since I got the 300mm in February.

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