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A new lens or camera?

Started Oct 14, 2017 | Discussions thread
BAK Forum Pro • Posts: 26,020
Emotion, science, and economics.

The 70 - 300 NANO lens simply feels good.

When I buy stuff, it is a business purchase and it involves getting a partner's agreement.

And I am normally pretty thrifty.

But it was on sale, and we had some money, so I bought it. I've used it a lot ever since, even though I  probably could have used my 55 - 250 instead.

So I say buy it, unless a new body is better.

If you buy any current new Canon cropped camera, and you take these pictures

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more or less still

--more or less in decent light

And you make an 11 x 14 print,

the picture from the new body will not be any better than the picture from the old body.

If the light gets dim, and there's lots of action, you may have better luck capturing the image because of faster response, more focus points, faster clickety-click, etc.

What's you future cash flow look like?

My suggested best bet is buy the lens soon, save up for the 77D or 80D, and buy that with the the 18-135 Nano when your wallet says OK.

BAK

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