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500mm vs 600mm?

Started Nov 13, 2017 | Questions thread
OP jjl Contributing Member • Posts: 743
Re: 500mm vs 600mm?
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Thanks for the feedback & ideas. I have the 100-400 also, and I think I'll still bring that for backpacking trips or other times a really big lens is cumbersome. I'll probably keep the 400f4 DO as well for traveling.

I've thought about something like that Tamron lens as well (there's a similar Sigma), but the tradeoff in sharpness means I'll wind up with images about similar quality as my current setup.

I hear you about dropping so much $ on a lens to take photos nobody really "needs". Though, there are any number of ways to rationalize it. I figure if I'd spent an extra $10,000 on a nicer car than I currently have, nobody would find that odd. So, why not on a thing I really love to do? Anyway, there's a cost for a new tripod & head too... funny how that works!

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