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

Started Jul 29, 2016 | Discussions thread
Phocal
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Re: Who Chose the 300 f4 over the 100-400 for Birding and Why?

lattesweden wrote:

sdw1 wrote:

I have to admit that, given my interest in birding, the Nikon D500 and a 300 PF would be a strong choice. I've read some D500 reviews and will have to look into the 300 PF more closely. Its the D500's AF speed and accuracy and ISO strengths, etc. that really seem great - making APSC very interesting again. If I was already invested in Nikon it would be a no brainer.

The D500 seems extremly good at AF. The sensor is about one stop better noise wise. The Nikon 200-500/5,6 would make a nice lens on it. Gives with the 1,5x crop 300-750 mm(FF eqv) with the same noise as the Olympus 300/4.

If the EM1mk2 is not as good as Olympus says it is going to be I will probably get the D500 and 200-400 ƒ4.  The 200-500 ƒ5.6 is not weather sealed and I cannot go back to a non weather sealed system, but that would be the perfect lens for my shooting style otherwise.

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Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 150mm 1:2.0 Olympus M.Zuiko 300mm F4 IS Pro Olympus OM-D E-M5 Olympus E-M1 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:2.8 Pancake +6 more
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