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500mm vs 600mm?

Started Nov 13, 2017 | Questions thread
BirdShooter7 Veteran Member • Posts: 9,134
Re: I'll complicate the matter a little...

I don't know how you came up with those numbers but I owned several copies of the original and as much as I loved the size and weight and wanted to love the optics it just isn't in the same ballpark as the other big primes in my experience.  The mk2 is much better and is a lens I have no qualms using for serious photography but in my experience it isn't quite to the standard of the other lenses in that range.  I'm not fully sold on DO tech just yet but don't let my opinion slow you down.

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