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

Started Jul 29, 2016 | Discussions thread
Okapi001 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,145
Re: Who Chose the 300 f4 over the 100-400 for Birding and Why?
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petebuster wrote:

Wait till all the gear heads realise how specialised a 300/600mm will be, and then they've got an unexpected bill, they'll be loads used on sale 😁

In fact the opposite will happen. People will realise how very useful is 600mm equivalent lens when you can easily use it handheld. For example, you can easily do a 200+ megapixel landscape panorama (stitching 10+ photos).. Or you can get a macro butterfly, from more than a meter away, without scaring it away.

All sorts of photos are now available, previously not possible, because you needed  1/500 sec to use 600mm handheld, or use tripod, and now you can use 1/60 sec and get perfectly sharp photos.

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